Banjo-Kazooie Store Ads Suggest Smash Bros. Ultimate Release Could Be Imminent

Damn just give us a direct already Nintendo before everything leaks

@mariomaster96 It's the current year, everything leaks now.

i say it is time for a Nintendo Direct next week with and "Available now" announcement

I don't expect a Direct very soon.
The stakes for the rest of the year are set.
Every month has one major title.
So I think it will be one more Direct this year, but I would expect it in November or something like that.

The Tokyo Game Show starts Wednesday next week...

Going to be dropped after the Nintendo Direct this week, surely?

I'm guessing announcement tomorrow, direct Wednesday or Thursday

My body is ready.

Though I don't care that much for these characters personally, I still like them enough, and it'd be cool if Nintendo dropped them on my birthday this month, which does happen before the 15th. Give me that present, Nintendo.

Out of all the dlc characters this is the one I have been waiting for with the most anticipation, the sooner BK releases the better!

Please please please release soon...

@Yosher If Banjo does end up releasing before the 15th, he’d release just in time for my friends to come over, celebrate my birthday, and play as Banjo! 😃

Happy birthday to you! 🥳 What day is yours on? Mine’s the 5th!

I propose that we should ban Banjo and Kazooie from competitive play preemptively just in case they have any uncompetitive mechanics. It would be unfair to ban them after uncompetitive mechanics are discovered because people already will have practiced them.

I kid, of course. And honestly, most voices except Leffen and a small league in Australia are saying not to ban Hero from competitive play. But dang if my twitter feed wasn't full of debates about the topic for a week...

@MH4 Mine's the 10th. Happy birthday in advance to you as well then; hope you guys get to play as Banjo in Smash for that birthday celebration!

I genuinely thought Banjo had come to Smash already?

@Dodger I haven't been keeping up with Smash lately, why is DQ Hero at risk for the ban hammer?

I really hope we can get RareReplay in conjunction with Banjo in Smash.

@xanderten50 Same here! All that hype earlier this year. I thought they were released in the midst of it all.

This is the same situation as the Hero, don't assume stuff

...He's going to drop on September 20th isn't he. 🤦‍♂️

If so, it would have been a pretty short gap between him and Hero. Much shorter than the one between Joker and Hero.

@Giygas_95 I doubt he’ll drop same day as Link’s Awakening

@lyle_catcliffe Everything else is. 😂

This would be a nice surprise, if true. I had been expecting a drop in October. The trailer for Banjo is the reason I got the fighter pass.

I don't think there will be a september Direct.

Why not? No need. September is packed with releases, and not just games but also the Switch lite.

I think we'll see a Direct in october. And that one will mostly be about Q1-2 of 2020.

Too soon after Hero. If the 4th character is due before the end of Feb 2019, they're going to stagger it. November is my guess.

@Baker1000 The 5th character is due before Feb’20. An equal stagger would be October, December, February.

@Indielink the gist of the argument is not that Hero is too good, but that Hero isn't a well-designed character for matches about player skill. I agree with a couple of the complaints and don't think Hero is the best designed character in the game but don't think the character is banworthy.

The biggest is the critical hits on Smash attacks. From a design standpoint, I think Marth has that mechanic worked in much better than Hero's 1/8 chance of a crit. Critical hits are kind of cheap, but getting hit by stray F smashes isn't a sign of good play either. As a PK Trainer player, a lot of my play is based around punishing slow moves - I shouldn't be walking into F smashes. Thwack and Magic Burst are the other two I see where RNG can just claim a stock, but I think those two are more balanced, as are Hocus Pocus and Kamakazee.

The other concern I've heard is the language barrier for traveling players. Again, fair, learning the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean words for Hero's moves is work. But that affects a small percentage of competitors and can be solved by making flash cards. A lot of it has started to die down, but twitter is not where calm discussion of anything happens. And I don't honestly think anything we saw in the Banjo trailer is likely to raise concern like random moves that kill at 60 or at 1 or that make you invincible.

@MaxlRoseGNR wrong, we still don't have our Holiday title (mid december) and the fiscal year for Japan/Nintendo ends in February at the end I'm pretty sure.

@RupeeClock yeah im not sure on that. Ive been in japan a decade now and seasons are less about calendar dates than in other countries. Im still thinking of Banjo as a before the end of september release.

And yall i really wouldnt pay and mind to that SNK thing im totally on the side of that being a mistake meant to be for SNK Heroines.

@Kalmaro I see Mario and Luigi are bad at their jobs.........I'll see myself out.

Looking forward to this, will get me playing Smash Bro's again as I've not played it recently...

@sandrev Most games announced in Nintendo Directs, don't tend to have many games that release in the same month. For example last September Direct, out of the many announcements in that Direct only had 3 new games announced for September FFXV Pocket Edition, City Skylines, and Capcom Beat-EM-UP Collection.

Cool, I was waiting for Banjo to get back into Smash. I haven't played for months because there are just too many great games to get through. Playing Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, Fire Emblem, and Collection of Mana, and also a ton of indies.