http://wii.com/jp/articles/mario-stadium/

It only needs a flick of the wrist for you to play :( 

Meh. doesn't that kinda take away from the experience.. Like, for casuals?

but it's attached with "Mario", so it will sell 5 million just from that.

As long as there's fielding and base running, it should be an okay baseball game.

I was never interested in the game, but wow, excellent screw-up there, Nintendo. Really, what the fuck are you doing?

Is there still charging up the bat and moving around in the batter's box? What about power shots?

Okay, about 3 different things here:

Are you japanese or can read this stuff well enough that you're saying those are the only things you need for certain, or are those just the main controller movements featured, and for all you know there are possibly a crapload of other button configurations to set on top of that?

could there perhaps be casual and hardcore controller styles?

I thought hardcore gamers were the ones complaining about having to flail around all over the place, so isn't this more suited to them? They need to make up their mind what exactly it is they want from motion controls.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GziDFiJIE90

Here is a video of the controls. It really isn't all that casual just because you don't have to swing ALL the way through. Whereas in Wii Sports the speed of the pitch or the swing speed were determined by how fast the Wii Remote was swung, in Superstar Baseball it was about how much it was charged. If you do a backswing you get more power than if you flick your wrist. Flicking your wrist will only get you a grounder or line drive just like in Wii sports baseball. Most of all, Wii Sports pitching you chose the direction of the pitch before you did it while in Mario Baseball you must twist your wrist (according to the video at least). The Wii version of Mario baseball is only staying faithful to the gamecube version, it is not trying to be Wii sports baseball.

And Nintendos next baseball game features even more casual controls; you push a button to throw/hit the ball.

As for my example above, you can see, that the controls are taken to more "hardcore" direction. And it's called upstreaming.
The idea in Wii Sports is to introduce people to gaming with gameplay that imitates real-life sports. And now, Super Mario Sluggers is introducing the same people to games that you play while sitting on your couch, using controls that are familiar from Wii Sports. Next step will be for them to pick even more "traditional" game to play.

you know in wiisports baseball all you needed is a flick of the wrist to bat or pitch. a quick flick and bam 94mph fast ball/curve/screwball


i'll wait for the reviews before buying.

my 7yr old plays only ssbb and mkwii currently...

I thought its the core gamers that dont want to waggle much this game is totally a waggle control. In Wii Sports baseball you totally control your body when pitching and hitting the ball, the problem was you cant control the field play so its a set score. Thats the reason why is not a perfect baseball game. In here, I just dont know. And yeah, Im the one who posted the controls in the game yesterday so after seeing this you only really need was the wiimote...

edit: I've read bdbd's post seem he has a point. So this is upstreaming? Never knew that for a second. OK then but Ninty sure is weird for upstreaming the market, you never thought that this casual game was really a bridge game.