Gamedaily writes: "Wii Sports Baseball, while enjoyable, doesn't capture America's pastime because it lacks depth and nine-inning games, two key features Nintendo hopes to include in its recently announced Wii video game, Mario Super Sluggers. Due out in Japan this June and the U.S. later this year, Sluggers expands on the Wii Sports game with added features, a wide variety of players and signature motion controls, which should make it the ultimate Wii baseball experience.
Although Nintendo hasn't revealed much about the game, Sluggers appears to be a combination of both Wii Sports Baseball and Mario Superstar Baseball for GameCube. It has the same, real time motion sensitive pitching and swinging found in the Wii game, and blends it with all of the Mario characters and over the top special moves."
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."