Nintendo: Punch Out! The New Mario Kart?

According to Rob Lowe, Nintendo’s senior product manager, the upcoming update to 1995′s Super Punch Out! on the Super Nintendo could have the same impact on gamers and sales as last years popular Mario Kart Wii.

Rob explains:

“Punch-Out! is our biggest Wii launch so far in 2009, and we see it as an important title that will appeal to gamers and families in a similar manner to Mario Kart Wii. It has a great pedigree with the previous titles on the NES and Super Nintendo, and this heritage is faithfully carried across to the new Wii version, along with a host of new functions and features.”

To help realise these claims Nintendo are preparing a large-scale PR and advertising campaign to surround the launch of the title, inlcuding a television campaign with a father and son boxing each other and a big screen tour of well known boxers fighting in a game of Punch Out!

“Punch-Out!! be a full triple-A launch as you would expect from such a long-standing Nintendo franchise. Hopefully we will be looking at a number one position in the Wii charts around the launch of the game.” Finishes Lowe.

So what do you think? Punch Out! as big as Mario Kart? Personally I don’t think so, let me know what you think in the comments below.

Source: MCV