Balance Board Wishlist: Mario Snowboarding Wii

Ubisoft's Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip certainly has the snowy corner of the extreme sports genre on the Nintendo Wii covered for the time being, but with the introduction of the Wii Balance Board along with Super Mario's unfaltering desire to try out fresh ventures away from platforming, would it be too daring to suggest that Nintendo could have plans for a new Balance Board-controlled snowboarding title of its very own, featuring a selection of its colourful cast of characters, in the pipeline?

1080 degrees Snowboarding was Nintendo's last effort in the field, a game that was released over a decade ago for the Nintendo 64, and other than that Mario, Peach and Luigi guest-starred in Electronic Arts' SSX On Tour for the Nintendo GameCube in 2005.

While it seems like Nintendo has been happy to let Shaun White take 1080's place in this generation thus far, Mario's already done soccer, the Olympic Games, baseball, and karting on the Nintendo Wii, so snowboarding - especially with the Balance Board's support and the long wait for a Ninty-developed winter sports title - would make a whole lot of sense.

The last great 'cutesy' snowboard title was Atlus' Snowboard Kids (also a Nintendo 64 release), and its Mario Kart-esque approach with fantasy courses, wacky characters and a variety of weapons is something that Nintendo could reproduce with ease. Mario Snowboarding Wii - like Mario Kart on ice with Balance Board support and online play? Yes please.

Could it be that Mario Kart Wii's DK's Snowboard Cross course is a hint of things to come? We hope so.

Posted by Andrew at 16:20