Well, it’s about damn time. From EA Sports’ website:

Electronic Arts Inc. announced today that EA SPORTS™ is developing one of the most popular and culturally influential arcade basketball games ever made — NBA JAM — for the Nintendo Wii™. EA SPORTS NBA JAM™ revives the classic franchise with vintage NBA JAM gameplay, and all-new features that deliver a fresh new take on the game. Featuring the sights and sounds that fans of the franchise will instantly recognize, EA SPORTS NBA JAM mixes the old school with the new, to deliver a one-of-a-kind sports presentation on the Wii.

Ugh.  I was actually excited until I found out it’ll be exclusively on the Wii.  I guess that means that the people who grew up with the game and actually play real video games (instead of waving a stupid wand at the screen to make a shitty-looking figure knock down shitty-looking pins with a shitty-looking ball) won’t be playing this one.  The Wii is for pre-pubescent kids and people who don’t play video games, so EA is really missing out on a lot of potential customers by making NBA Jam a Wii exclusive.

I’ll admit that the new Super Mario Bros. game is pretty boss, but Punch Out! came and went and just about every other game for the Wii sucks.  Have fun shaking a controller like a spaz just to shoot the ball.  I’ll stick to the XBox, thanks.