New Super Monkey Ball for Revolution

[xmu]

SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON (April 26, 2006) - SEGA® of America, Inc. and SEGA Europe Ltd. today announced Super Monkey Ball™: Banana Blitz developed by SEGA Studios for the Nintendo Revolution system. AiAi and all his friends have rolled their way onto Nintendo's new console with new mind-blowing puzzle levels and a wealth of new and exciting Party Games specifically designed to fully exploit the innovative Nintendo Revolution controller. Other titles will have a difficult time matching the multitude of possible variations in game control as presented in Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz.

Full press release here: http://www.sega.com/e3/2006/announcements_tp.php?item=pr_20060426a

 

[Titanio]

Wonderful news! The controller should be pretty much perfect for this.

1up has a short interview:

http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?pager.offset=0&cId=3149978

Confirms it'll have the most mini-games in a Monkey Ball game to date.

 

[NANOTEC]

The multiplayer aspect should be a blast.

 

[xmu]

Hmm damn, the press release says:

For screenshots and artwork, please visit the SEGA FTP site at: http://segapr.segaamerica.com.

And nothing there Boohoo!

 

[Titanio]

Yeah, according to the 1up article, we shouldn't expect screens until Nintendo's conference on May 9.

 

[PeterT]

Great! If you have lots of people around the Monkey Ball games are always a blast, I guess that will be even more true with the Rev controller. I also trust them to come up with plenty of unique minigames that fully use the new input possibilities.

 

[pc999]

This is the kind of games that does have the chance to show of the possibilitys of the controler with a lot of mini games and if price (console too) is cheap it can be great seller.

 

[gamepower]

Why release Sega a boring game called "monkey Ball" why not Scud Race ++ or so?

Or has the Wii not enough power for that??

 

[Farid]

Why release Sega a boring game called "monkey Ball" why not Scud Race ++ or so?

Maybe because Monkey Ball gameplay makes a lot of sense for the Wii?

Also if they wanted to release a Racer, they wouldn't have to make a choice between that racer and MB, they can release both.

Or has the Wii not enough power for that??

Scud Race was running on a less powerful hardware compared to the Wii.
So, a Scud Race witrh better graphics is clearly possible on the new Nintendo Console, if Sega wanted to.

That said, if Sega decided to bring back Scud Race, I'd prefere it to be X360/PS3 exclusive personally. Or at least that a second team works on the PS2/Wii ports.

 

[rounin]

That said, if Sega decided to bring back Scud Race, I'd prefere it to be X360/PS3 exclusive personally. Or at least that a second team works on the PS2/Wii ports.

Why?

I'd love to get a new Scud Race port

 

[Acert93]

My wife and I love SMB2. Very fun game, in particular the minigames.

 

[ChryZ]

SMB rules! Which team is doing it? AV?