Mario Sports Mix hits Europe in early 2011

by JC Fletcher on Nov 26th 2010 9:00PM

Mario Sports Mix, the Square Enix-developed Wii sports collection that pits a Dragon Quest Slime against who cares who else, will be released in the UK on February 4, 2011, and on January 28, 2011 in other PAL territories. It came out yesterday in Japan.

So far, all we know about North America is what was announced during E3: that it would be out sometime in 2011. Nintendo's latest earnings report reiterated the same, nonspecific release date. However, if the localization for the UK version will be complete by early February, we can probably expect to see it here around the same time. We're looking forward to trying the Slime's "tricky" play style against ... "Mario," or whoever that is.

Via: Siliconera
Source: Nintendo UK, Nintendo Germany

Tags: europe, mario-sports-mix, nintendo, release-date, square-enix, wii

Reader Comments (50)

Yay?

Stopped reading at "Square Enix-developed" .

Sold.

@Riley Freeman

Sold, because Sqaure Enix developed it?
What is this, 2003?

The only great games they've made this gen are the ones they've outsourced. Their piss poor performance has shrunk the JRPG industry into a niche market.

Are you some kind of sadist or something?

@Esposch

Can i just be a big fan of Square-Enix? or do i have to like what you like?

@Esposch

Wow, do you have be a massive ass about it? Funnily enough, people have different opinions and tastes to yours. Get off your tower, princess.

@Esposch

Did you not see you can play as a black mage? I didn't even need to read "square-enix" to know I'm getting it, but thats the icing on the cake.

@Riley Freeman

Sorry, nothing against you personally, bro.

Just frustrated that Square Enix have gone from world class developer for the last six generations and then all of a sudden not producing a single highly acclaimed title (except on handhelds) this gen.

@Esposch

Final Fantasy XIV is game of the year, dude.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_fantasy_xiv#Reception

@Jenks

Really? All I remember about it is "4.0"

But I suppose they are keeping up with their handheld releases, I guess.

@Esposch

FF XII? You may not have liked it, but it wasn't bad. I mean, whether or not you enjoy FF13 it's easy to see how it could still be better/more complete. FF12 on the other hand was complete and tried (with some success) to mix things up a bit. (Yes I realize it's not from "this gen" but you also stated they've sucked since 2003.)

KHII, if you want to count it.

They helped get Batman: Arkham Asylum out. There's the new Lara Croft game. There's Just Cause 2, which is at least a fun sandbox game. I've heard good things about the latest Front Mission game. FFCC: The Crystal Bearers. Infinite Undiscovery, though it starts off extremely slowly. There's Star Ocean: The Last Hope.

@sonicspike41

Well, I don't exactly count Batman or JC2, as that's more Eidos than Square Enix (and yes, I know they bought Eidos).

And FFXII and KHII were last gen games, but as you mentioned very highly acclaimed.

And the others you mentioned, while not bad, weren't highly acclaimed.

@Esposch

Actually with the exception of Infinite Undiscovery, the others I mentioned got great ratings (30-34 in Famitsu), but just weren't as high profile as KH or the mainline FF series.

They've made a few of bad games (Nier, Kane & Lynch, The Last Remnant), but they've certainly made more good games than bad this generation I think. The only games they've really mucked up would be FF13 and perhaps a few of their smaller RPGs (which, while not bad, aren't always amazing either).

Gosh, I forgot about this. But the announcement at E3 is coming back to me.

Who is the pink haired girl? A White Mage?

@Chulipin

Yep.

@Chulipin

It's Stephanie.

How does a slime dribble a basketball?

Legitimate Question.

It doesn't have to dribble.

It -is- dribble!

@Alexisonfire

It can do a Double Dribble :3

Now that Nintendo and Square Enix are playing nicely again, and letting Square Enix develop Mario games, how about Square Enix develop a true sequel to Super Mario RPG?

I mean, seriously, the Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi RPGs were good, but none held a candle to the original Square-developed Super Mario RPG.

@Elranzer

This.

@Elranzer
As long as Nomura doesn't do the character designs, fine.

@Elranzer

I just want them to bring ♥♪!? back.

@Elranzer

Oh Geno, how I miss thee.

Really? THIS is what we're doing now?

@Exu

Says the person who's avatar is of a game that's much worse than this could ever dream of being...

This is what Wii Sports should have been.

Cactuaaaaaaaaaaaaar.

Wait...what?

Playing basket-ball agaisnt a living cactus.... ouch.

@DjiegoMoz

"Goddamn it, Luigi! Box out Cactuar!!!"

Ok, I have to ask this, and it may sound stupid, but why are the words "NEW!" and "Mii" in english? I see this kind of thing all over the place but I don't get it. I understand when it's a brand name or something but "NEW"? Do they not have a word for new?

@Cdy2007 Of course they have a word for new (atarashii).
I think it's because of the fact that "New" is sortof like a well-known thing, and it stands out, and it the context of the game, it makes sense.

With the Mii, I'm guessing that's because it's a trademark and probably makes it distinct from the others who are actually game characters.

@Cdy2007 The Japanese use a fair amount of English words, I think primarily because it sounds cool to them. You can hear it pretty often in a lot of anime.

You may find this TV Tropes article an interesting read:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GratuitousEnglish

@Cdy2007

The Japanese know a helluva lot of english, really, even if you just go by what you see in untranslated games and anime and such

Your average Japanese knows 4 alphabets and can at least pick out words from three languages (given that so many of the Kanji entail their alternate and originally Chinese pronunciations). Quite impressive for a culture often branded as xenophobic

This needs to come out already. I've been waiting for Mario Hockey forever.

Is that Shadow from FF6??

Sweet, I had forgotten about this! :D So many good games in 2011... Sorry, wallet.

I don't know I had my share of fun playing the demo of Clockwork Knight on my Saturn over and over and over again.

@Stevetrop Man of Mystery

doh was suppose to be toward shockwave

No Rosalina?

I have a great proposition for Square Enix!
They could... bring the Final Fantasy main series back to Nintendo?
(Fingers crossed)

@Greippi But how are they supposed to render all the cutscenes?

A FF on a Nintendo system might need actual gameplay or something.

@wcarnation

Multiple discs

AND/OR multiple sequels.

Cash money, son.

@Jinketsu so basically 'Final Fantasy 15: Season One - A 14 DVD Collection"

A North American release "sometime" in 2011?

You mean like how Pikmin 2 for the Wii was announced "sometime" but never released in the states?

I'll believe it when I see it.

@Jinketsu

Though this one will probably sell far more than NPC Pikmin 2 would have, making for a stronger guarantee

The colors mark their weight class, right?

@yoshi95

A safe estimate to a point, though i'm having trouble with the yellow classification vs the green. Two levels of middleweight?

The other guess would be technique, like with Mario Tennis. That would make slightly more sense

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Mario Sports Mix hits Europe in early 2011

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