Rumorong: Steel Battalion Wii collapses like so many downed mechs

by Chris Greenhough on Dec 29th 2008 2:55PM

Our hearts were briefly aflutter this morning upon seeing news of a Steel Battalion port for the Wii. Could it be? Were we about to get a second chance at buying that insane 40-button, $200 controller/dashboard that shipped with the Xbox original? Well, no, we weren't -- and for two reasons. Reason one: Capcom was planning to develop the game with support for the Wii Remote, the Nunchuk, the Wii Wheel, and the Balance Board, and sell it for a mere $45, sans amazing controller. Reason two: the story isn't actually real.

That's right: this was all a prank by Spanish site Vandal.net, which has now posted a disclaimer at the top of its article stating that the story was merely "a joke similar to the English April Fool's Day." Gutted. On the bright side, some sites are still reporting this as the real deal, which makes us feel a bit less stupid for believing it in the first place.

[Via Balance Board Blog]

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Tags: balance-board, capcom, first-person-shooter, mech, port, remake, steel-battalion, xbox

Reader Comments (7)

Goes to show you how crappy the game titles available on Wii are when 4 out of the top 10 are the WiiWare mini-games. I guess you could say I am a little disappointed with the game selection available for the Wii. If you don't really like Mario or the Japan style graphics based games there isn't a whole lot to offer but I should have known better before I bought it. I thought the Wii might result in a branching out from the normal Nintendo-ish type games with the innovative controls.

Not only did you post in the wrong topic area...

but you also said that 4 of them were mini-games...
I'm not exactly sure whether or not you know what a mini-game is.

A mini-game is a tiny game within a game. Back then, they were in RPGs and Fighting games, then eventually in adventuring games and finally into mini-game collections themselves.

They're supposed to mimic arcade games within the game. Something fun and can be done in minutes.

Nothing on the list, is a mini-game. All of the "mini-games" are full-fledged adventure games or arcade-esque games.

And since they're not within a game, and since they're not half-@ssed made (like most minigames), they are in fact, FULL GAMES.

And seeing that you're so against them, shows that you've never even tried them (or just plain ol' gave up on them without giving them a chance).

It's people like you that encourage the selfishness and ignorance found in most "hardcore gamers" today.

Playing Steel Battalion in college was easily one of the coolest gaming experiences I've ever had.

Its a shame this is a hoax.

I got to play this at a friend's house on his big screen TV and nice sound system. He had the controller on three dinner tables, heh. Most hilarious thing about it was the windshield-wiper button.

You can always tell what kind of journalistic credibility a news website has when and bunk story comes down the line and everyone posts it before checking any facts.
Great job nintendowiifanboy.com, looks like pulling all of your stories from other websites and linking them to yours in really paying off!

Keep up the great work in 09!