I could not believe it we I saw the Mario Party 9 logo at the end of the show. ITS TIME TO PARTY AGAIN! My hope was lost with Mario Party, especially after Wii Party and the disappointment of MP 8. I still believe in my theory that MP 8 was supposed to be a Gamecube game for 2006, but Nintendo pushed back the date till next year for a Wii release. You can tell that MP 8 seemed to be somewhat low quilaty on Wii. From the MP 9 video I saw, it seems that they really took their time with this in terms of the mini-games. The mini-games all look fun, but not very much showing of the board maps though.