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New Super Mario Bros. Wii packaging is red all over

Pretty intense. The red is found throughout, from packaging to plastic to the disc. Kind of reminds me of the all-yellow days of Super Mario Bros. 3. Must be a coincidence 😉 Arrived on the same day as Modern Warfare 2. No coincidence there, I’m sure.

500x_mario1Pretty intense. The red is found throughout, from packaging to plastic to the disc. Kind of reminds me of the all-yellow days of Super Mario Bros. 3. Must be a coincidence 😉

Arrived on the same day as Modern Warfare 2. No coincidence there, I’m sure.

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  1. Can't wait to play NSMB Wii next week.

    Love the red case as well, nice to see something different from the white. Hope to see other color cases in the future.

  2. niiice, love the instruction manuel picture. good stuff, hurry up christmas, why did i ask for it then ehh

  3. This alone will boost sales. Its going to pop on the shelves and people will see it more readily. Great move, Nintendo!

  4. As you can tell, the last few days at my office have been pretty tame, so I've had lots of time to rant here at Infendo.

    NSMBWii will be the game the kills Natal and the Sony Wand before they even get out the door. This generation, the gamersphere has declared that the Wii's success is based only on gimmickey motion-controls that fool uneducated customers into thinking they are simulating sports or excercise. I have consistently said that Wii's success has nothing to do with motion control; that motion control is an afterthought. And now we will see the truth of it.

    Wii's success is due to Nintendo tearing down the barrier of entry presented by comlex time-suck epic games and confusing 12-button dual-analog controllers. Motion control was simply the method they settled on to achieve that goal. The Balance Board, while tragically underutilized, is another completely different method to the same ends. Everything Nintendo has done has been in pursuit of this goal, making it easier for EVERYONE to enjoy videogames.

    And now, NSMBWii will do the EXACT SAME THING with no (or very little) motion controls, and Sony and MS will be dumb-founded. The simple, classic 2-button and D-pad controls and simple 2D side-scrolling gameplay of NSMBWii will be embraced by countless customers who have been intimidated by the increasing complexity of recent videogames.

    Sony and MS and EA and Pachter and nearly everyone in this whole dumb industry has missed the point of Wii.

  5. Am I the only one that doesn't like it? That things is gonna look ugly on my games shelf… For the same reason I don't like platinum games on PS2/PS3, or Mario Kart DD on GC, ect.
    Usually games have a set colour for their boxes, white for Wii, clear for PS3, green for 360, black for Gamecube, blue for PS2. Having a red bit sticking out is just gonna look out of place… I'm sure the game will be fantastic, I'm not a fan of the big glowing light they call a box…

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