Gaming Age writes: "It was only a matter of time before Nintendo got around to releasing stand alone versions of its Wii Sports games while including Mario and friends in for good measure. Previous Nintendo consoles have seen Mario Tennis and Mario Golf (as well as Baseball), so it's no shock to see them follow suit on the Wii, especially considering those games seem best suited for Wii's motion-controlled remote. It's a shame then that Mario Super Sluggers doesn't take full advantage of what the Wii is capable of doing – instead offering little more than what gamers played three years ago on the GameCube".
The regular season of Major League Baseballis over. Washington took the cup, and the boys of summer are off to hibernate until spring. For the baseball superfan, this means many long months without their sport of choice, so they've turned to the virtual world. And rather than the super-sims or manager games, a Mario spin-off baseball series seems to have captured people's attention.
Mario Superstar Baseball hit the GameCube in 2005, and its sequel Mario Super Sluggers landed on the Wii in 2008. There hasn't been a new baseball spinoff since developer Now Production's closure, unless you count Super Mario Party's baseball toybox, but the decline in Mario sports games hasn't deterred the dejected baseball fans of the r/baseball subreddit from picking the game apart.
Nintendo trademarks four new titles. The names of the titles are Wrecking Crew, Rhythm Heaven, Mario Super Sluggers, and Golden Sun. Let us hope something new will come from these trademarks, either a remake or a new title.
Wrecking Crew and Rhythm Heaven sound like they could be cool new IPs.
A.J. says: "I don't like sports but for some reason I love playing baseball video games. Here, I'll cover all the bases as to why this sport appeals to non-fans like me so let's get this ball game going."