Nintendo hit us with an update on a handful of Wii and Nintendo DS games today, including fresh details on the Wii version of Punch-Out!!. Perhaps most exciting is unwavering confirmation of āclassicā NES-style controls.
Sure, the company has to eat its own dog food and legions of Wii owners are clearly comfortable boxing with a Nunchuk and Wii Remote. But that didnāt stop us from nervously anticipating the new Punch-Out!!, which we understood to be motion control-only based on comments from Nintendo.
According to Nintendo of Americaās press site, the alternate control scheme has the same button layout as the NES controller, using the D-pad to dodge, with the 1 and 2 buttons used to throw punches. Big deal? Maybe weāre just excited for the upcoming blister possibilities. So much better than perspiring while gaming.
Nintendo didnāt reveal much more beyond that, merely reconfirming the appearances of boxers Little Mac, Glass Joe, King Hippo, Doc Louis, and Von Kaiser, plus āother unannounced favorites.ā
The game hits in May, so weāll probably know soon enough who those might be. Iām pulling for Soda Popinski and a handful of more modern stereotypes!
