....how odd

Hope you can switch the damn thing off.
If I'm destined to fall I don't want AI surreptitiously rescuing me.

I don't know why the office assistant came to mind just now, "Hey it looks like you're trying to jump a chasm"

It's nice that they added that feature, maybe the games get harder for us real gamers cause the noobs will get help to get through those levels.

This could attract younger players new to platforming, boosting sales.

I hope you have the option just to play it in one player mode! It Looks really good, the music I'm a tad worried about it sounds like the DS version, this is to me is fantastic Nintendo has done it again but I wonder if they are able to translate the DS version for Wii-ware that would be great. All we need now is for SEGA to announce to a 2D Sonic game and all of my Christmas's and birthdays have come at once.

Have to see it in action to really know what this new technology really is.

Sean... REALLY? You must have VERY narrow gaming tastes. How someone could like the limited but very similar gameplay of Mario Bros. and not like Super Mario Bros. is quite the mystery. You very may well be the ONLY one. To each his own of course, I'm just a bit shocked.

Surprise aside, I'm interested in what is making you consider this one. It seems like you are suggesting the help feature? Or is it the multiplayer. Just curious.

@7 uh, Sonic Unleashed isn't that old...

I don't need any assistance on any 2D Mario,but thanks for the offer Nintendo.

In some ways I agree with Sean. Some of the Mario games aren't what I expected. Except the older Mario games.

Haha, poor Miyamoto, I guess he doesn't like Nintendo's new policy of being ultra-secretive until right before launch. Seems like they're trying to tie his hands and he's a bit frustrated by it. But that's a cool feature. I'll of course never use it since Mario games only get easier and easier, and both World and NSMB were childishly easy, but that's not a complaint. They were still fun.

"uh, Sonic Unleashed isn't that old..."
It's also not 2D.

Does Mario really need this? They keep making the games easier and easier.

I'm wondering how this game will be as a single-player experience... Will it be missing something like say, 4 Swords Adventures?

(facepalm) Miyamoto, is this really necessary at all? I mean, Super Mario World, New Super Mario Bros., and Super Mario Galaxy provided little challenge. I've beaten Super Mario World 100% in just one week! What are you thinking? Isn't it obvious that your games are being dumb-down?

What Im hearing is basically NSMB Wii will be as easy as lets say Imagine Babies. Yeah Nintendo thats a real good stab in the back of Hardcore Gamers. I caught this statement right off the bat and was like great another SuperEasyNewSuperMarioBros. Guessing Nintendo didn't learn anything from last years casual catering and abandoning the hardcore, and Vitality Sensor oh come the F... On Nintendo.

slapshot82 - no, it sounds like what the others said, they want to make it more challenging, but have a help feature for new gamers IF they want it. I think it's a great idea instead of many who go to, as he said, freinds, etc., sites or to youtube for walkthrus. I say if it helps one complete the game, but takes off points/score, not life, so the ones who did it w/o help still have a higher score, or there is even hidden areas for more points/score that the help won't show, I think it works great for everyone.

So is this like New Super Mario Bros Clippy Edition?

You've come upon a lava pool. Do you want to:

• Jump it and hope you make it?
• Freeze podobo and use it as a step?
• Access the in game guide and don't think for yourself?

Whoever said NSMBWii was going to be easy. Isn't the patent for an optional feature? He may up the challenge because of this. SMG2 is supposed to be more challenging but it will likely include this feature as well. I mean for those that enjoy Bash Party do you have a problem with the option to spend "money" to unlock the better puzzles? Same rule applies here. I'd love a new Zelda without some annoying fairy or talking hat giving me clues all the time, yet it'd be nice for only those who need it.

As long as it's optional, then great. It'll boost their sales whilst making the games harder for us since the noobs (didn't someone already say this?) will have help.

Just as long that its challenging, I don't care.

I'm pretty sure you will be able to turn the help off, but I doubt the game itself will be that hard, still, is Mario it has to be fun, I also hope it is long.

I don't think that having this feature will boost the game's sales, but I do think that it will add to new player's interest in gaming leading to game sales in the future. Would you keep paying to do something that you never succeed at? Of course not. Kids will be able to enjoy games more if they can reach the end without too much frustration.

You all might think that those games are easy, but I found them hard. Not everyone plays at the same level or wants the same level of challenge but still wants the experience. I probably would never finish a game like this without a heck of a lot of help.

I seriously think this is a good way of helping to tackle this experienced/skilled, inexperienced/novice divide. The only way people learn is by taking on more difficult challenges - that's the nature of life, school, workplace, uni, everything.

So whilst its expected that these games won't be of extreme difficulty because of the new audience, it is expected now that the new audience will have to gradually play more and more difficult games, like we did back in the day (80s or 90s). to be honest though, super Mario bros on the NES was a simple game, but difficult. All of my family played it, my, auntys, uncles, (part from my nan) and even though it was difficult, everyone found it fun due to its simplicity and the fact that even though it was difficult, it could be seen that the result was obtainable, and in reach with enough practice and skill. We didn't have all these ingame hints and faqs back then. I mean heck i completed some very hard games somehow when like 6 years old that i look back now and think how on earth did i do that? People learn by seeing that something is possible whilst being challenged. It's this balance that needs to be achieved in modern day gaming. people have grown too accostomed to being fed information, i even used to see this a few years back when i was at school - maths, people just dont try!! i would go home, try and figure something out, and 49 times out of 50 figure it out by myself, through persistence and effort. Others would just not bother think and ask ridiculous questions instead of going and figuring themselves.

"I don't know why the office assistant came to mind just now, "Hey it looks like you're trying to jump a chasm"

LMAO!!!!

Miamoyta does not know English.