Nintendo on Super Mario Bros, Digital Gaming

The October 30th corporate Nintendo briefing was packed with information on the future of Nintendo. The HD future, hardware and issues on software were all mentioned in the full briefing found here. Satoru Iwata and Shigeru Miyamoto specifically mention the upcoming New Super Mario Bros Wii game, a brief reference to DS titles, and quite a bit on the Internet and gaming. According to Miyamoto, the multiplayer aspects of the upcoming Super Mario Bros title were only made available by the Wii's unique hardware. "On every Mario project we have discussed the possibility of having two players play together simultaneously," Miyamoto said. "This time the screen zooms in and out accordingly, thanks to the capacity of the Wii console. The camera can zoom out as far as three times wider where you can see a very small Mario running around, and zoom in to show huge Mario and Luigi." Miyamoto adds that since the Wii can handle unique camera angles for four characters, they developed the title to allow for up to ... (link)