brings back memories

the mario on the nes remains to this day favorite of all time

I played all the console mario games since the nes I think n64 mario is the best version though, didnt like the gamecube version and this version looks ok has some nice music but looks gameplay wise a bit boring ,since i own a ps3 and a xbox360 I aint gonna go out and rush and buy a wii just think if the wii had been a next generation console like xbox360 or ps3 what this game would have looked like I think I will give this generation of nintendo a miss and wait till they decide to release a high definition console if this is suppposed to be the best they can output its just a backstep in gaming design people who purchase a wii are just fooling themselves the wii remote is no match for a good old n64 gaming pad and this game is not as good as n64 mario.

Game has excellent sound and looks nice, whoever said it lookes better then GOW should seriously stop doing drugs because they are bad for you.

The level design IMO seriously lacks any innovation, to me all those small planet sphere levels are rip offs of the old Ratchet and Clank games. I'm hoping this mario game has full fledge levels and not small mini levels that take 30 seconds to beat.

LOL! Like the whole gameindustry depends on Nintendo games that you can only play on a Nintendo platform and nowhere else..

If you ask me it's Nintendo that keeps the whole gamingindustry in the kids and family atmosphere, that the general public still see videogames in.. Nintendo is not doing anything special for the gamesindustry, they are still making the same games that they made 10-15 years ago, only for their own platforms.. What's so specially new about this game? It's still a classic Mario platformgame, only now it's on 3D planets/balls, and you control it with a Wii-mote..

And sure it has it's place, and sure you are allowed to like and enjoy it.. But that doesn't mean I have to aswell, and it certainly doesn't means the whole gamesindsutry depends on it, LOL! Infact I'm pretty sure if Nintendo closed it's doors today it wouldn't change a thing.. PC, playstation and Xbox do not depend on Nintendo at all.. And Nintendo had and has nothing to do with the games I like..

Yea but thats not what he was saying, Gaming would be nothing if Nintendo hadn't paved the way.Maybe not now, no, but Nintendo has done more for this industry than anyone else out there.

Why? Nintendo didn't invent videogaming or a whole lot of today's videogaming genres..Not so hard if you're in the industry much much longer then any remaining competitors..

Sure Nintendo was and is a big player in the industry, but it's not like the whole industry wouldn't exist or stop to exist if Nintendo didn't exist.. Saying the videogameindustry would be nothing without Nintendo is a bit silly imho.. There were and are plenty of other pioneers in the industry.. Like Atari, who were bassicly put out of business by Nintendo, or ID who invented the now hugely popular FPS gaming-genre.. Etc etc..

What I do give Nintendo credit for is their pioneerwork with handhelds.. The Game&Watch series in the early and mid 1980's.. Those were bassicly the granddaddies of the current DS, and where Donkey Kong and Mario were born..

that game is more impressive then 90% of 360 and ps3 library lol....man wish i had a Wii

I love my 360 & pc and really dig very detailed graphics like those in crysis and gears of war, but this game is something else. It looks very good, and the game plays really well too. Plus its 60fps, dpn't see that a lot with my 360. This is what wii games should look like if you ask me

BEst Wii Graphics. the two new videos especially the bee one and that lava monster were amazing looking and man it looks like so much fun !!!

LOL!! Seriously just stop. The analog stick they claim to have invented was already used by Atari long ago. The Analog stick on a digital controller was done by SEGA before they did it. Using motion to controll your character was also done by SEGA before that (yes on the MEgadrive) and those are just a few examples. I like Nintendo but I hate the Nintendo fanboys spreading lies about how much they "invented".

This looks amazing and puts everything else on the Wii to shame.

I meant that in looks wise, not technically =)

And I will never let my babies go =P

I used two exclemationmarks by accident, but it seems your ego needed caressing by pointing that out before you could post something. You say that if Nintendo didnt exist Gaming wouldn't have made any progress. I gave a few examples of what they did but what was also done by others. Gaming would have made progress.

Second YOU are factually wrong. Sony maybe made a controller in mimic of Nintendo. But MS her controller is of the Dreamcast -> Saturn 3D controller -> Megadrive analog controller line. This Megadrive controller existed earlier then anything Nintendo had with an analog stick on it. So please, claiming yourself a SEGA fanboy without knowing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AX-1E that? Surely you jest friend. Nintendo is a player in the game as are Sony and MS even without Nintendo redifining would have happened but then probably by Atari who also made the first console with 4 controller ports.

No sir YOU havent read my post. I just said IF Nintendo wouldnt have existed the same inovations would have happened but then from another COMPANY. Which can be SEGA but Also Atari. And Did you know that there was already a compatible Modem for Atari Consoles BEFORE that? So please stop being so defency about it. I like Nintendo but they are NOT the sole thing that drives the industry MONEY is . If it was upto Nintendo the NES would have lasted alot longer, thanks to SEGA it didnt.

SECOND I didnt call THE megadrive pad as an analog pad or THE saturn pad as an analog part. That is just you again trying to establish your own ego before attacking again. I was talking about the AX-1E MEgadrive analog controller made by SEGA for the Megadrive. This one stood model again for the SATURN 3D CONTROLLER that came with Nights into Dreams. Which inturn gave way to the Dreamcast, Xbox and 360 controller.

I read your post you just have trouble reading mine too. I just say without Nintendo these things would have happened too.. Money would have made sure of that. But you just see it as an attack on Nintendo and somehow that works on you like a red rag on a bull.

Did I say it depends on Nintendo? I said if it weren't for Nintendo, there would be no industry, and this is something that can't be argued with as it's as good as written in stone as a solid fact.

The NES singlehandedly revived the industry when it was all but dead back in the mid to late 80's. It was Super Mario Brothers that sold that system, and as such it still sells systems to this day. It was the flagship of the N64, SNES and now Wii. Look at the Cube. It failed. Why? Could it be there was no decent Mario game on it? And don't even say Mario Sunshine or MK:DD. Without the little plumber and his creator, we would all have gotten tired of games as they would have been well stale by now. Look at the pattern that's emerging since these supposedly new and super powerful consoles that were meant to innovate and bring games forward. All the best games on the systems seem to be FPS's. That's all there seems to be is a glut of these sort of games. They may be great and exciting, but they are nothing new, and if you ask me, most of them don't hold a candle to Rare's classic Goldeneye as far as gameplay goes. It just proves that Nintendo was right about having an underpowered system is fine, so long as the creation and imagination is there to make something fresh. You could argue Mario Galaxy isn't fresh, but it contains some of the best level design, if not the best, ever seen in any kind of game. If this game is being touted as being actually better than Mario 64, then that in itself is a massive feat; one that hasn't been achieved in over 11 years of trying now. What does that say for the gaming industry as a whole? It's stagnated. People bemoan that it's not HD this, not HD that. Who gives a flying f*ck? All HD does is polish a turd. And there are plenty of them knocking about these days.

By the way, I've owned almost every system going, and I currently have a 360. I prefere the 360 over my Wii at the moment, so this isn't a biased view. It's just years of experience playing these things.

Not just Wii, on everything else IMO. This is nothing but classic goodness, and some of the most visually arresting graphical style seen on any system. You have to remember, that it's Mario, and as such, it's meant to look like a cartoon. Stick this on a 360 and tune the res up a bit, and it wouldn't look out of place. It would still be hailed as a stunning looking game.

I never said Nintendo wasn't relevant, because they obviously are.. But they are not as important as some people think they are, and if Nintendo wasn't there anymore it would certainly not be the end of videogaming as a whole, that's silly indeed..

When Nintendo came out with the NES, all they did from then on was make games for their own system, and nothing else.. And today they are only 1 of the 4 platforms, and only 1 one of many gamedevelopers..If you don't own a Nintendo platform not a thing would change, that's correct.. And what the problem with not having much change in basic gameplay in some games? In real life people still play the same game of Football they did a 100 years ago and still enjoy it.. Why does every new videogame have to invent or innovate? FPS gaming has been here for 15 years now, and it's more popular then ever without any changes to the basic gameplay or controls (on PC).. There's a saying that goes 'If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it'.. Just because something is new and different doesn't automaticly make it better..

And ID did invent the FPS genre, just like Westwood invented RTS.. So what major and important gaming genre(s) did Nintendo invent? Only thing I can come up with is the platform genre, but even that's up for discussion..

Like I said, they invented the handheld with Game&watch, I give them credit for that..

Nintendo is important yes, but only for and on their own platforms nowadays, they are not the all defining gaminggods some people make them.. Super Mario Galaxy is a platform game like Nintendo has made them for so long.. The whole atmosphere (especially the same old sound and music) of the game is so typical Nintendo, and that over the top happy happy joy kiddy stuff just annoys me, that's all.. That doesn't make it a bad game obviously, it's just not for me..

Btw, what's the story behind this game? Because tbh it looks like a collection of minigames without any real connection?

What I mean is, it looks like every "planet" has it's own kind of puzzle, minigame, or boss you have to beat and then you get shot to the next planet, and so on.. Is that it? Or is there some bigger picture I'm missing?

Wow this looks great! And I'll give it max 3 months before we see a game on the other two consoles that completely rips off either the ideas and or the cool geometry shading seen here.