Namco Bandai made Mario Superstar Baseball on Gamecube. Loved that game, they really "got" the Mario style.

yeah to be fair, I just don't care about Baseball games vs. Tennis or Golf games. That's not Namco's fault.

But Assault was half...not that good and I hated the arcade Mario Kart. Again, I don't think that's fair or that relevent, just a thought I had.

My only worry is that they don't COMPLETELY change or mess up the forumla. Keep it the same but just build on it. I do like my Tekken and Soul Calibur, but there's a reason why I prefer Smash Bros. and why I like the games for their own styles.

Oh man I forgot about Klonoa. Please Namco Bandai make it happen!

Maybe they'll make the adventure mode more like a traditional RPG, except the battles will be Smash Bros. style. Or maybe that will just be for the 3DS version. The adventure mode in the Wii U version may try to be like NSMBW, where you can have four player co-op and work your way through side scrolling stages.

Guys, Sakurai is still the boss here. He will break knee-caps and upend tables to get this game how he wants it and knows it should be.

I trust the man as much as I trust he's chugged a gallon of water from the Fountain of Eternal Youth.

Look at him, you know he has.

Think we'll see anything from Baten Kaitos? I think Xenoblade has a really good chance of making it in.
Edit: Maybe Chibi-Robo as well?

I'm going to repeat my thoughts from the NL article about this since they seem to describe it best.

I wasn't expecting any news on Super Smash Bros. 4 at all, so I was thrilled to see that "challenger approaching!" screen pop up. With the Soul Calibur and Tekken teams helping with this, I feel better about the development and it appears that Sakurai will get his big team after all. That means that maybe we won't have to wait many years until the games release.

One thing that concerns me, though, is that now everybody's going to suggest a boatload of Namco characters to be in the roster. I'm fine with a couple, but anything more than two and that would be stretching the concept of Super Smash Bros. as a Nintendo slugfest. Don't go overboard if you must add third-party characters, please.

Jist vo balls out and have people from every major Japanese studio work on it.

They better be working on Mario's overalls, we need more detail in them.

Are you closely related to @Sony_70?

@NintyFan, all these people like "YEAH PACMAN!" "TEKKEN CHARACTERS!"

I'm just like no, this is a game about Nintendo characters.

lol Reggie and Sakurai are on a role. Telling people off:

Sakurai responded on his Twitter to someone asking him to remove Bamco from the team as they are "incompetent"- tweeting:

"Knock off looking down on them with narrow-minded thinking."

And Reggie keeping it real- People ask for Mario at launch, they give them a Mario game, "What else?" They give them something akin to Smash Bros. in regards to "crossovers", they still want more. Pikmin? I want more. That's what I call: Telling it like it is sans le sugar. According to him, there's a lot of satiable people. And frankly, it's true.

@L4dyk0m1c Don't forget the month of VC to shut up satisfy the VC complainers.

Sakurai owning on twitter made my day.

Touchy subject much :b

NoA withholds games from being released outside of other territories, and they're wondering why people are asking for more. Reggie is so clueless.

lol no i am not related to anyone on this site

I like this but I wish they'd put in Square Characters because that has the best roster for characters, I mean tons of FF characters, KH, DQ, TWEWY, and they can finally put GENO in if it was Square

Guys, it's not like the company has to work with Sakuri to get their characters in the game. Hideo Kojima and Sega didn't help with Brawl. They just asked for their characters to be in it.

It makes a ton of sense why this happened beyond fun crossover appeal. Developing two fighting games simultaneously that will be connected for two different systems, one of which on what will be, at least for a little while, the most powerful gaming console around is going to need a ton of people. Like Assassin's Creed Revelations number of people (except without the "because they need to rush an uncreative sequel for the holiday season" part).