Including, Perhaps, Another Super Monkey Ball
In a March interview with CVG, Sega West head Mike Hayes expressed interest not just for Playstation’s Move motion control, but Microsoft’s coming Project Natal based system as well. Hayes called it “a move potentially away from the core,” added the company will “certainly be supporting” both Natal and Move, and asked Sega’s Japanese division to produce a Natal-specific prototype for unveiling at E3, now 2 months away.
It turns out Sega may be producing much more than that. A reliable source tells TSSZ News that Sega firmly has three Natal based games in development. We do not know if any of these are slated to be shown at the upcoming E3, and we don’t yet have details on two of the three titles. Hayes did say in his CVG interview that “several” titles were in development by Sega both for Natal and Move, slated to be released later this year and in 2011.
However, our source did tip us off to one of the games on deck: A new addition to the Super Monkey Ball franchise. We’re told the game won’t be a proper sequel, in the sense that it won’t be branded Super Monkey Ball 3–but it will be unique in its own right, even down to the control mechanism. Our source says to expect a different setup from recent fare offered on the Wii, which has used motion control both via controller and the Wii Balance Board.
If true, this will be SMB’s first foray onto a current generation HD console. Super Monkey Ball Deluxe was released by Sega in 2005 for the PS2 and XBOX but since then, franchise releases have largely been limited to Nintendo consoles and mobile platforms.
The source speculates but cannot affirm that any SMB offering could be part of an overall launch package for Microsoft’s peripheral. Project Natal is slated for release this Holiday season.
We’ve filed the information as rumor. We will see in the coming months how much of this pans out. Hopefully, we’ll have an answer as early as June’s Electronic Entertainment Expo.
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Hell yhe
Super Monkey ball on the 360º awsome, if they could make some Nights game or maybe a Sonic game for Natal, where we are Sonic and we have to run and jump or something like that POWERFULL 
I am not excited for any game SEGA wil make for non-hardcore gamers. The taught me that casual games suck. I an slightly excited for the possibilities of Move since Sony still seems to believe that real gamers exist.
@Edge
“REAL gamers”? Um, you might want to elaborate on that, ‘cuz that quip could be construed as being rather biased against “casual gamers”.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they are doing a Super Monkey Ball game for Natal.
NOOOOOO keep monkey ball available on the wii, It all started on nintendo and they should try to continue that =(
But I like the idea of putting it available on the other consoles but if they don’t put it on wii too I’m gonna nuke you SEGA >=(
One I hope not is a Sonic title I think Space Channel 5 , Super Monkey Ball & Jet Set Radio would work
@Komodin
Oh don’t worry about him offending them, any true casual probably doesn’t know a gaming news site is. Casual gamers are very biased towards rubbish, just look at the Wii’s monthly sales charts, .
So is it possibele we’ll see smbon ps3 too?
@ Edge
Oh yeah, because the Playstation Move looks MUCH better than the Nintendo Wii. With the playstation move, Sony might have 3 games worth having on Ps3, nothing compared to the Wii or the 360.
EVER WANTED TO SEE THE BOTTOM OF SONIC’S SHOE?!?!?!!
WELL, BAM!!!!!!!!
@ RaveToTheGrave
Countering a bias statement with an even more bias statement.
Everyone sees a Monkey Ball, Sonic, or Nights coming they should do something different. I could see a Billy Hatcher or a (like someone said) Jet Set working. Ooh, what if they did a Ristar, where you had to push your arms forward to stretch his arms, that’d be neat…..wait why haven’t they done this yet?
Let´s see what kind of games they make… Personally I´m not that interested in the Super Monkey Ball franchise, but I´ll keep a close look to this.
I wish Sega could make some Billie Hatcher or Alex Kidd, Ristar, Nights, Super Monkey Ball, and a game that I wish they could make to: Taxi Driver!!!
So I wish especially: Taxi Driver, Billie Hatcher, Alex kidd and Nights… or maybe some Sonic Spin-off game
Is sega going to give its own press conference during e3?
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@ RaveToTheGrave
ah. What’s up old friend! It’s been a while! Well, before I begin to touch your first sentence, I must reply to the last, I will list the games I consider buying on the PS3, 360, and Wii:
XBOX 360:
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic Unleashed
Eternal Sonata
Final Fantasy XIII
PlayStation 3:
Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice
Trinity Universe
Eternal Sonata
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic Unleashed
Uncharted: Drakes Fortune
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Final Fantasy XIII
Wii:
Phantom Brave: We Meet Again
Super Mario Galaxy
Sonic and the Secret Rings
From my viewpoint the PlayStation 3 has better exclusives. In fact I don’t think I even listed an exclusive for the 360. I should also note that about half of the games I listed for the PS3 are also available for the XBOX 360. I only really see 2 good Wii games. Phantom Brave was originally a released on the PlayStation 2 in 2005 or 6. To me, the Wii isn’t very fun because the games lack imagination and replay value, Which ultimately leads fun first 2 hours and then I loose interest. The wii is, as i’ve heard somewhere before, a ‘grandmas fittness machine” which sadly, many hardcore nintendo fans didn’t enjoy very much because nintendo forgot about those hardcore gamers who ended up moving on to the 360 or PS3.
The 360 has too many glitches. I sold my first one and then I bought a new one when I liked rock band and Dream Theater said they would try to come to RBN. when I heard that RBN only supports 10 minute songs (which is considered short for DT) I still had hope that maybe 20 of the 97 DT songs would come on there. Then I started hating music games. So now I’m about to sell mine again. But the sad part is that I sold my first one… But I had exactly 4 XBOX 360′s that were broke right out of the box before I got my 6th and current 360. Also, the only things I can find on the system are shooters, racing games, and sports games.
In conclusion, the PS3 has extremely good games and barely ever glitches up, the 360 however, does not have very good games and constantly messes up, and the Wii is a failure to the hardcore gamers, particularly the hardcore nintendo fans (like me). But it’s all preference, I do suggest not judging a system until you’ve played it for more than a week. I loved my XBOX for about 4 days and then hated it from there on. I will keep on enjoying my PlayStation 3 that luckily doesn’t have as many games as the other two home consoles. That means that the fewer games the better… Less crap. And no I am not a Sony fanboy, I garauntee that I’m going to get those comments, I have played Nintendo and SEGA platforms and games all my life but now it looks like Sony has made the best platforms of this generation. The PSP is my favorite, with PS3 coming next, then the DS, then Wii, and my least favorite being the 360. By the way. I wouldn’t talk trash about the PS3 when almost all of it’s best selling games are also on the PS3. I am no talking crap about it’s games as much as I am the console itself.
Now on to the first comment. The PlayStation Move and it’s sub-controller looks, from what I’ve seen, much less frustrating and much more intuitive and responsive than the Wiimote and Nunchuk. I haven’t seen any games that caught my interest, however, the controller looks like what I thought the wii would be, a fun controller with fun games for both hardcore and casual gamers. I mean I haven’t seem any dancing or cheerleader games on the PS3 yet. Also, Natal’s concept may be extremely fun, I just haven’t seem any amazing, wow-worthy games. I would like to see how an ROG or Datin sim would play. I think a dating sim/RPG could work like the cancelled eyedintify for the PS3′s PlayStation eye.
And I am very sorry if I am sounding biased everyone. I’m not trying to but I guess it’s just the way I sound when I speak or comment
Wow. I just wrote the 2nd or 3rd to longest comment ever on my iPod touch… And it doesn’t show up… I hate it when that happens.
@ Edge It’s funny I’m also was writing this comment on my iPod touch tooo
Every time there is a new console with a unique control method you can bet Sega will release a Monkey Ball game on it. I just hope they go back to the style they used in Monkey Ball Delux.
Mainly I just hope they make mini games that were actually tried and tested FUN like Monkey Target, Golf, Race and Fight etc… Fleshed out with multiple modes, options and levels like Delux.
Quality over quantity please and not just controller based gimmicks like the ones on Wii…
How I long for multiplayer Monkey Target, Race and Fight as good as they were on Monkey Ball Delux (easily the best game of them all)
I can imagine a sonic game with natal or a Jet set radio one either but mostly sonic