Mario For Wii Announced, Legendary Designer Elaborates on Console's Future

So, after having mentioned our irrepressible excitement over a possible new "Mario" game this week, we actually researched the announcement a bit to find an entry on Wired's GameLife blog from last week that has, in fact, already announced a new Mario Brothers for the Wii console (see: Miyamoto: New Mario Tests Your Hard-Core Gaming Chops). 

Additionally, the game's creator, god-father of gaming, Shigeru Miyamoto has spoken out this week about the advances on the gaming console Nintendo plans to make in the coming months. He spoke out to Popular Mechanics quoting the following... 

“'What we’ve been able to do [with the Wiimote] is introduce an interface that is both I think appealing and at the right price for a broad audience.'

 

But more interesting are his comments on what lies beyond the Wii. Amazingly, he envisions a console that is largely the same, but even cheaper.

'What I can say is that, my guess is that because we found this interface to be so interesting, I think it would be likely that we would try to make that same functionality perhaps more compact and perhaps even more cost-efficient.''"

Though we agree the new series of "Wiimotes" are fairly slick, and will likely give quite a holiday gifting booster to the already massively popular gaming system, what possible minimazation of the console and it's cheaper price will do for sales down the line remains to be seen.

Check out the formal Mario Brothers's announcement here and the full article on Miyamoto via Geek.com.

It's A Mee! Mario!

Happy news today, as Charles Martinet has leaked via his Twitter that he is working on Nintendo's new version of Mario Bros. He tweets:

"Awesome new Mario Game! And it's not NSMB Wii, and it's not Galaxy 2, but it's going to be crazy fun!"

So, while we think that Twitter, being as it's limited to 140 characters for any individual post, may ultimately throw a lot of confusion out in the world by making people blurt out incomplete thoughts, and this may mean, that the news is not for sure, or is somehow just a total work-in-progress, we're also happy to hear of the possible re-emergence of our favorite Italian plumber. Ahhhh, just the name Mario alone takes us back to our sick days as a child and spending many hours on our parents' bed trying to outrun dinosaurs and listening to that iconic background music.

We'll be waiting patiently, here by the computer, until more, detailed news emerges. Until then, can Nintendo slap together a nifty Mario mobile app? We'd be much grateful.