New Super Mario Bros. U

New Super Mario Bros. U
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Developer(s)	Nintendo EAD Group No. 4
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Director(s)	Masataka Takemoto
Producer(s)	Takashi Tezuka Hiroyuki Kimura
Designer(s)	Shigeyuki Asuke Daiki Iwamoto Ryutaro Kanno
Artist(s)	Masanobu Sato
Composer(s)	Shiho Fujii Mahito Yokota
Series	Super Mario
Platform(s)	Wii U
Release	NA: November 18, 2012 EU: November 30, 2012 AU: November 30, 2012 JP: December 8, 2012
Genre(s)	Platform
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

New Super Mario Bros. U is a 2012 platform video game for the Wii U game console. It is a sequel to the 2009 game New Super Mario Bros. Wii on the Wii, which is a follow-up to the 2006 Nintendo DS game New Super Mario Bros., and the fourth game in the New Super Mario Bros. series.^[1] It was developed by Nintendo EAD Group No. 4 and published by Nintendo. It was released on November 18, 2012 in North America, on November 30, 2012 in Europe, and on December 8, 2012 in Japan. It is a follow-up to the Nintendo 3DS game New Super Mario Bros. 2 (released three months before), which is a sequel to the 2006 game and a follow-up to the 2009 game.

Up to five players can play at a time. The game can be played with either the Wii Remote or the Wii U GamePad. The Wii U GamePad allows for handheld Play, where the game can be played on the controller without the use of a television screen.

For the Year of Luigi, which celebrates the 30th anniversary of Luigi's first appearance in the Mario series, Nintendo released downloadable content called New Super Luigi U which was also released on the Wii U. Players play as Luigi in harder versions of the game's levels. It was released in mid-2013. It was also released as a game and not a download. A port of NSMBU, titled New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, was released for the Nintendo Switch on January 11, 2019.

1. ↑ Newton, James (June 19, 2012). "First Impressions: New Super Mario Bros. U". NintendoLife. Archived from the original on June 22, 2012. Retrieved June 28, 2012.