How hard is it to win Mario Party 9 against computer opponents? If you set the AI difficulty to easy, you don't even need to touch the controller.

We've recorded the intro scene of Mario Party 9, the ninth installment in Nintendo's popular multiplayer series that will be out on March 11 for Wii.

In the trailer above, you can get a bit of a sense of Mario Party 9's road-trip design, as well as a taste of a couple of the new boss battles. It's all a random, chaotic good time, though less "go team!" than this trailer would suggest.

Granted, it's a party on the Wii, but hey, a ton of people own Wiis! And thanks to Skyward Sword, many of us have even figured out how to plug it in to our new TVs and updated our firmware. So, should we want to pull out enough batteries to power three more controllers, we'll be able to play Mario Party 9, the many…

Say hello to the boxart for March Wii game Mario Party 9. Is it colorful enough for you? (Via the Twitter feed of a Nintendo PR person).

Our long Mario Party drought is over! The last game in Nintendo's Mario Party series, Mario Party 8, was released in 2007. And the latest entry, Mario Party 9 was revealed today at the E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles.