June 15^th, 2005 (11:55am) - Although E3 happened a month ago, new interviews from the expo are continously surfacing and the latest one with Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto has revealed that the long awaited Mario 128 is indeed a Revolution game title.

Here’s an excerpt from the interview:

WN: This is the first traditional side-scrolling Mario game Nintendo has made since 1991. Why wait this long to do a new Mario game in the original style?

Miyamoto: Because we’d spent all this time working on 3-D Mario games. And of course, when we had Rare developing the side-scrolling Donkey Kong Country games, we were able to rely on them, which kept us from coming back to side-scrollers for a long time.

WN: But there’s still no sign of the long-rumored Mario 128 for GameCube.

Miyamoto: It’s still floating around. We’re searching for that fundamental idea that’s going to drive the next 3-D Mario game. But we’re not sure when that’s going to jump out at us. We’re doing lots of tests with small groups.

WN: If that’s the case -- if the design process is still at the point where you’re doing experiments and tests -- is it even possible that Mario 128 could come out on GameCube at this point? Or is it definitely a Revolution title?

Miyamoto: We think we want it on Revolution.

WN: So, there will be no new GameCube Mario platform game.

Miyamoto: Right. The Mario team can’t create too many games at the same time, so they’re concentrating on the Revolution.

Click the following link to read the entire interview:
http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,67854,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2