Nintendo will be announcing a new Super Mario Bros. game for the Wii U at E3 in June. This is according to Eurogamer and has been confirmed by Nintendo. This was first reported in spanish on EL Mundo.
The spanish newspaper interviewed Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto and paraphrased him as “anticipating that at the next E3, we present a Super Mario for the new console”. Later that day Nintendo confirmed the statement to Eurogamer with a Nintendo spokesperson saying, “In a recent interview, Mr. Miyamoto confirmed that a new Super Mario Bros. game for the Wii U system will be shown at this year’s E3 Expo…We’ll have more to announce about our plans for the E3 Expo at a later date.”
Miyamoto also said that he was working on several other “small but important” projects for the Wii U. “Some are small but important projects for Wii U. Also on a new Pikmin, which will take advantage of the new HD screen resolution, and on Luigi’s Mansion for 3DS.”
