Peach Won't Be Playable In New Super Mario Bros. Wii Because Of Her Dress

New Super Mario Bros. Wii has four playable characters: Mario, Luigi, Toad and... another Toad.

If you're wondering why Peach isn't the fourth playable character, Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto recently revealed that the reason she playable is because it was difficult to animate her dress. According to Miyamoto: "we would have to have special processing and programming to handle how the skirt is handled within the gameplay."

[DrRobotnik]

Just give me toad. He whooped ass in SMB 2.

Toad: "I'm the best!!!"

Right you are toad.....right you are.

[TheDeadMetalhead]

Indeed, Toad kicked ass in SMB2. But why is h such a pathetic loser in every other Mario game? -_-'

[Smacktard]

ITT: People don't understand that the "dress" thing was a joke by Miyamoto.

http://www.wired.com/gameli...

ctrl+F "dress"

[iamtehpwn]

ever.

[dericb11]

I guess since Nintendo hates to release games for the Wii they also have to be lazy with the ones they do release. Sad part is since there won't be DLC she won't show up in the game at all.

[TheAntiFanboy]

It is. Just use Havok or PhysX to procedurally animate the skirt physics.

Or, you can stay last gen. Good plan.

[StarScream4Ever]

"Oh Havok and PhysX is too complicated for our toy."

XP

[HolyOrangeCows]

Simply create animations for each direction she takes:
*Dress closes in on legs when going up
*Dress moves back when she goes forward
*Dress moves forward when she goes back
(And one where it goes above her waist when she's going down, lololololol)

You don't have to add a freaking advanced physics engine for ONE ARTICLE OF FREAKING CLOTHING.

[Infernostew]

Well, Super Smash Bros Brawl did a good job with her dress animation. So why is this an issue if it's already been done? Sounds like nintendo's getting lazy.

[MEsoJD]

so fcuking lazy these days

[dgroundwater]

Havok was used in Brawl, so you are totally off base. Other than that, they just didn't want to add her. They probably could if they wanted to, but didn't :(

[Relientk77]

wow

that excuse is fail

nintendo really?

thats ridiclous

fix it

[StarScream4Ever]

You telling me that when she jump her dress would obey the law of gravity?

YOU LIE! >:O

[Tanny92225]

lmao win comment

[54percent]

Cmon... I think we all know why they won't put peach "because of her dress"

[White-Sharingan]

Couldn't they make her wear pants and solve everything? wtf seriously nintendo, W T F

[ceiltsei]

This may be my observation alone - Miyamoto does not seem to like the underpowered Wii system, and his negativity towards it lately may be pressure for Nintendo to release new hardware.

[cyberwaffles]

like i give a ****. i'm sick of mario and his super brothers.

[Saaking]

That's just lame, Nintendo.

[Neo Nugget]

Oh my god. Too hard to animate her dress?

Seriously?

[sashimi]

because princess Peach wanted more money(economic downturn has reached mushroom kingdom)since Nintendo is making a killing with the Wii.But Nintendo wouldn't have it since it'll cut into their profit margins therefore the contract was never signed and we now have 2 Toad.
That dress was just a poor excuse ;p

[menoyou]

Pathetic.

[Redempteur]

Weird reason.

I don't see how hard is it to animate a character instead of COpy and paste the same animation to the others

[R4mpage]

Next thing u know they'll say that next Zelda Wii game won't have any voiceacting because there are too many actors to chose from.

[Zackstorm]

What Miyamoto means to say is that the Wii can't handle four completely different characters at once for a game like this.

This is different from Brawl, it's not like the four players will be on a stationary stage, there's a lot more going on. That's why they have to have the toads; since they're duplicates they will be easier to handle.

With a game like this, they need the frame extremely steady. It's all about timing, so anything that would cause slow down, they're just not going to risk.

[tda-danny]

Your kidding right?

The game is a 2d side scroller in 480p. If the console can not handle 4 different characters on the screen at the same time, I do not know what to say...

I believe it can however, and this is just complete laziness on behalf of the developer, and shows that they are not willing to put in a little extra effort to appease their fanbase. Why make extra animations when you can just copy red toad and make him green toad for the 4th player. Terrible

[Kluv]

what the hell is this. oh it's challenging so we won't do it, okay, good luck advancing in this industry with that mindset.

[ChickeyCantor]

While he could have used any other excuse, i really dislike arrogant people like you who pretend making games is as easy as 1 2 3.

Perhaps he could have done it, but it also means more development time and debugging.

[infamous_27]

Thats just being lazy.

[HDgamer]

It's been confirmed, peach has a penis.

[zerocrossing]

Shiggy would have told us! O.O

[ChickeyCantor]

Peach can float, i dont see the levels being designed just for that.
Besides its one character, not sure why they would bother. But Toadette would have been awesome...=/

[zerocrossing]

the real reason Peach wont be playable is you have to once again save her ass from bowser who maniged to capture her im assuming using a pretty flower or somthing shiny, i dont know why they dont just tie her down or atleast get a damn lock on her room

[Xander-RKoS]

It's a joke, as someone else pointed out earlier, and due to the fact that it's he laughed and put in "Wario would have to fart every time he walked"...

Has anyone considered that a possible, and probably more likely reason to this, is that you're rescuing Peach in a classic Mario style?

[lizard81288]

since this one cuts out
(laughs)
at the end of his sentence

anyway, too bad THE toad isn't in here either. just 2 generic ones

[Ripyealip]

wow i didnt think anyone could get more lazyer than valve

[na-no-nai]

it be funny if peach was actually your enemy the whole time and you have to fight her at the end cuz she was prossessed by an evil spirit or something. and she was the one controling browser that be a big twist