Or, to give it its full, correct, slightly clumsy title, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games. It’s been confirmed today, and there’s a teaser trailer above, which I’m sure you’ve already spotted.

As you might think from the inclusion of snowboarding, the Wii balance board will be supported, though unfortunately there’s no online play on the home console version. The press release doesn’t make it explicit, but Wi-Fi could be possible on the DS game.

It’s being developed by Sega Japan, under the watchful eye of Shigeru Miyamoto (I imagine Shigsy just saying “yeah, ’s alright” every couple of months when he’s shown a new build; I’m not convinced he’s that heavily involved) and the game will feature new faces to the series - yes! - to be revealed later in the year - boo!

Again, the initial announcement is shy on event revelations, simply naming alpine skiing and speed skating as among the disciplines. Once again, more events will be drip-fed to us greedy info-gobblers throughout the course of the year.

And that’s about it, really - I quite liked Mario & Sonic as a waggle-riffic multiplayer timewaster, and hopefully the sequel, with its balance board shenanigans, will be even better. It’ll sell millions, of course and after Sega’s recent losses, it needs a banker like this one.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, February 12th, 2009 at 6:18 pm by Chris Schilling
Balance Board, DS, Forthcoming titles, Mario & Sonic, No-brainer, Rivals, Wii.