Shigeru Miyamoto and Nintendo held a roundtable this week about NSMB and a ton of new information was revealed.

Nintendo held a roundtable conference this week for New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Shigeru Miyamoto was in attendance to answer questions from the media. While he touched on Wii Fit Plus briefly, the majority of the conference was devoted to the latest Mario outing. He jokingly said that he wouldn’t be answering any questions about Zelda.

Miyamoto started off by explaining that the classic Mario experience is the best way to get Mario into the living room for all to play. With the original game, it was solely a single-player experience (one player at a time), and with New Super Mario Bros. on the DS, it was a way to give Mario to a new audience but also appeal to long time fans. He then went on bring up something he was asked at E3 this year; was New Super Mario Bros. Wii going to be as easy at the DS version? He said that it wouldn’t be, and that it’s ’pretty difficult’.

But that difficulty is balanced with the Super Guide. Formerly known as ’demo play’, Super Guide lets you watch how the level should be played but it’s only activated after you die many times. It doesn’t show secret parts of the levels or the secret levels. You can let it finish the level for you or jump in at any time.

Miyamoto also showed off a demo of the multiplayer, playing with Bill Trinen and another person; they all died within minutes and returned to the menu. Miyamoto joked to the press that ’it was a very bad demo’.

Miyamoto also showed off the red packaging that the game will come in for the US and Europe, the Wii logo being foil stamped. Miyamoto made a point that the Japanese don’t get that. Will we Mr Miyamoto?

Miyamoto then fielded questions from the press, all of which you can read here.