this could be very nice indeed,cud also be annoying,i think for a game like mario galaxy u would want to see the full screen dedicated to one player.

I seem to remember the montage movie around the launch of the Wii and thinking that as Mario was flying around between asteroids and such, somebody else was collecting the stars which he flew past. Dunno - may be just a guess but I would've thought they'd have shown us Luigi by now if this was true.

If you look at this video --> http://wiiportal.nintendo-europe.com/10719.html you can see right at the end how the guy is helping the woman - perhaps this is the 2 player part?

exactly, why speak of luigi when you dont know that.

the two player option, is one person playing as mario, the other points a wii remote and collects stuff, thats all itsgoing to be, and probably mini games too. theres your two player mode.

Actually, Super Mario 64 2 was promised to have a two-player mode, but that game evolved into Mario 128 and that evolved into Pikmin and with Pikmin 2 you had the two-player mode.

It's probably so that person number two controls the pointerstar thingy...the perfect boyfriend-girlfriend playsetting.

Having played the game I can assure you that one person can handle the control of mario and the pointing simultaneously, thats kind of the whole point of the game. Saying a game is two player just because you could feasibly let one person hold each part of the controller would be pretty s**t. I could have a friend work the gas while I steer in NFS:carbon if i chose to, but i certainly wouldn't advertise that as 2player. Personaly i think taking turns, like old Mario games, is the way to go. Camera work on those 360 degree surfaces with two players would be horrible and i don't think i can go back to 480p split screen now.
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