Super Smash Bros. Ultimate News
January2019
News Here Are The Top Ten Best-Selling Nintendo Switch Games Of 2018 In The US
We all know number one
Fascinating sales data has been flooding in over the last few hours, giving us a detailed insight into how Nintendo performed in the US last year. We already know that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was the fifth best-selling game of the year across all platforms, and that Switch was
News Obtain Multiple-Character Spirits In The Next Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Spirit Board Event
Gotta beat 'em all
The weekly Super Smash Bros. Ultimate spirit board events don't appear to be stopping any time soon. Starting on 25th January, the next three-day spirit board event "The More The Merrier" will highlight multiple-character spirits. Below is the announcement tweet from the Nintendo Australia and New Zealand Twitter account along...
News Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Was The Fifth Best-Selling Game Last Year In The US
Five other Nintendo exclusives featured
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate dominated in the month of December last year and has also placed fifth in the top 20 US software sales of 2018. According to The NPD Group, it was a record year for the video game market in general within the US - with the industry generating $43.4 billion in revenue. This is an 18...
News Smash Bros. Ultimate Dominates The US Game Charts In The Month Of December
Unstoppable
The main reason the Nintendo Switch was able to outsell rival platforms within the US in December last year is linked to the release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, which placed in the top spot on the charts. According to The NPD Group, Nintendo had six other titles in the top twenty best-selling games list to help increase Switch sales...
Oh BOY
Earlier this month, we shared a selection of art pieces from God of War Art Director, Raf Grassetti, all of which were coming together to make a realistic-looking set of designs for characters from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Whatever your thoughts on the designs, it's undeniable that an awful lot of talent has gone into each piece's...
News Nintendo Reveals Upcoming Tournaments For Smash Bros. Ultimate And Splatoon 2
Across Europe and North America
Nintendo has today unveiled a number of competitive tournaments scheduled to take place this year with both Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Splatoon 2 being featured. North America First up, in North America, both games will see a series of online qualifying events take place from February. These qualifiers are for...
Video Anyone Can Join Super Smash Bros. Ultimate With These Replica Wax Seal Invitations
Everyone is invited!
If you feel as if there's still room to improve the current roster in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, then perhaps you should send out a few of your own invites. Youtube channel GandaKris - previously known for creating a custom Bowsette amiibo - has now uploaded a new DI
Sakurai reveals all
We've had well over a month of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fun at this point, and Pokémon's fiery wrestling machine Incineroar has already become a cherished part of the family. Things could have been very different, however, as game director Masahiro Sakurai reveals that the fire-type beast almost didn't make the cut. As...
News Masahiro Sakurai Thanks Fans For Playing The Super Smash Bros. Series Over The Past 20 Years
No, thank you
The Super Smash Bros. series started out life in 1999 as a humble party game on the Nintendo 64 for up to four players. Since then, Masahiro Sakurai and his team have improved each entry by adding more characters, levels and features. Most recently, we saw the release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on the Switch. Unsurprisingly, it was...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (January 19th)
Here are our picks, but what are yours?
Congratulations everyone, we've made it to yet another weekend! As is tradition, members of Team Nintendo Life have gathered together to talk about our weekend plans. Featuring games ranging from Mario's latest platforming adventure to digital versions of trading card games, you can find our entries below...
News Piranha Plant Will Become Available In Smash Bros. Ultimate “Around” February
Pipe up
An update on the Nintendo Switch news feed has narrowed down the release date of the Piranha Plant fighter coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. According to the post - which is a reminder to claim your Gold Points before the end of January, so you can receive the Piranha Plant fighter for free - the classic Super Mario enemy will become...
News Here Are The Top 30 Best-Selling Nintendo eShop Games Of 2018 In Japan
Digital and retail releases
Nintendo has shared lists of the best-selling eShop games of 2018 in Japan, providing us with a good look at which games were the most popular in the gaming giant's homeland. Each of the two lists below shows the top 30 most-downloaded games from the eShop during the year 2018. The first list shows exclusively...
News Masahiro Sakurai Reveals He Plays Smash Bros. Ultimate For Fun Just Like The Rest Of Us
Fancy a match, Sakurai-san?
It's been well documented over the years that each and every Super Smash Bros. game takes an awful lot of development, and every so often we hear stories of director Masahiro Sakurai overworking to the point of exhaustion before being forced to consider retiring from games altogether. Amazingly, though, this doesn't stop...
News Nintendo Switch Exclusives Were Japan's Best-Selling Games In 2018
Smash Bros. Ultimate takes out top spot
In Nintendo's homeland, the Switch has continually reinforced its position as the top video game system on the market. Within less than two years, it's now shifted more than six million units. The recent release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has further increased sales domestically. With sales of the system...
Japanese Charts New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe Knocks Smash Ultimate Off Top Spot
After a solid five week run
Japanese chart figures are now in for 7th - 13th January, revealing that New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe has managed to steal the number one spot from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Smash Ultimate has had an incredibly impressive run since it launched back in December, taking the top spot every week for five weeks in a row...
News Smash Bros. Ultimate Global Sales Passed Five Million In Just One Week, Says Nintendo President
Switch software sales are soaring
According to Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate sold more than five million copies worldwide after just one week on sale. The news comes from a short interview in Japanese newspaper Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun today (thanks, Dr. Serkan Toto). In this interview, Furukawa shared Smash...
News Fire Emblem Spirit Board Event Returns To Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Different spirits on offer
Nintendo has revealed its next Spirit Board event for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will begin on 18th January. In a post over on Twitter, the Nintendo Australia and New Zealand account explained how the three-day event 'Fire Emblem Fest Part 2' will give players the chance to acquire even more Fire Emblem s
They just keep coming
Yet another glitch has been discovered in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on Switch, this time giving King K. Rool a much larger-than-usual crown to batter his opponents with. As always with these glitches, you need to meet a very specific set of requirements to make it trigger. For this one, you'll need to go into a match with...
News Official Pokémon Site Suggests Charizard Disobeyed Its Trainer For Smash 4, Just Like Ash's Did
So that's why it went solo
One of the biggest selling points for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is arguably the "Everyone is Here!" statement. As you'll likely know, the game features every single playable character that has ever been available in a Smash game - and also throws in a few new ones - but there's one character which actually causes a little...
News Smash Bros. Ultimate Has Already Outsold Smash 3DS In Japan After Just Five Weeks
It's pretty popular
You may have heard about this little game called Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, correct? Well, Japanese sales data has revealed that the game has already outsold its 3DS counterpart despite only being on sale for five weeks. At the very end of last week, new sales figures came in for the week of 31st December - 6th January,...
Random Smash Bros. Ultimate Camera Mode Reveals That Isabelle's Net Decapitates Her Victims
What a monster
Isabelle may be the cutest thing to bound out of Nintendo HQ since Kirby's oversized shoes, but one thing's for certain: she has an absolutely terrifying dark side. Since her inclusion in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, we've already seen Isabelle team up with Villager to shut down the game in a not-so-friendly glitch, and she even found...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (January 12th)
Here are our picks, but what are yours?
We've reached yet another weekend, which can only mean one thing: it's time for the Nintendo Life 'What Are You Playing?' feature extravaganza! Are we overselling it? Maybe. Anyway, as always, expect to find members of the team discussing their weekend gaming plans in our lovingly-crafted paragraphs below. If...
News The Latest Smash Bros. Ultimate Glitch Creates Horrifyingly Large Pikmin
This isn't the Pikmin 4 we imagined
Yet another Super Smash Bros. Ultimate glitch has been doing the rounds online in which players can transform the size of their Pikmin, making them the devilish monsters we always suspected they might be. Shared recently on Twitter by @kangroo221, and seemingly originally found a few weeks ago by @DBlank20xx, the...
Two weeks of sales in one
We have a bumper edition of the Japanese charts to share with you this week, as Media Create sales for the last week of 2018 and first week of 2019 are now in. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is consistently knocking it out of the park, remaining on top spot every week in the region ever since it released just over a month ago...
Go! Go! Go!
The next batch of amiibo for the Super Smash Bros. line are now available to pre-order from the Nintendo Official UK Store. If you're after any of these for your collection, you'd be wise to get your pre-orders in fast. Joining the roster are Piranha Plant, King K. Rool, and Ice Climbers, all of which release on 15th February and are...
News Nintendo Crushed It In The UK Over Christmas, Best-Selling Physical Publisher In December
Beating EA to number one
Nintendo had a pleasingly successful holiday season in the UK market, selling enough physical games to become the best-selling publisher of December. According to GamesIndustry.biz, a major portion of this success came thanks to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate which sold an impressive 284,155 copies at retail. Other titles like...
News Earn Double EXP And SP In This Upcoming Smash Bros. Ultimate Spirit Board Event
Train faster
If you've been unlocking and training spirits in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate like there's no tomorrow, an upcoming event in the Switch game's Spirit Board mode might be able to help you out. Running from the 11th January until the 14th January, Smash Bros. players will be able to earn double the amount of EXP and SP when they win a...
News God Of War's Art Director Has Been Drawing Up Realistic Smash Bros. Ultimate Characters
Smash Bros. Remastered
God of War and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate were two of 2018's biggest games, both going on to sell huge numbers at retail and capturing the hearts of players all around the world. Now, those two worlds have combined in spectacular fashion. And it's awesome. Raf Grassetti, Art Director at Sony Santa Monica (the studio behind...
UK Charts Smash Bros. Ultimate And Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Keep A Firm Grip On The Top Ten
Digital sales to be tracked soon
UK chart data is now in for the week ending 5th January, but a lack of new releases means that we have a near-identical chart from last week. The biggest change has actually taken place right at the very top, with FIFA 19 once again hitting number one by jumping just ahead of Red Dead Redemption 2. Nintendo's heavy...
News Nintendo Labo Nominated For GDC Innovation Award
Smash Bros. Ultimate Receives an honourable mention
The organisers of the 19th Game Developers Choice Awards have announced this year's nominees. The winners of each category will be announced on 20th March at the San Francisco Moscone Center during the 2019 Game Developers Conference (GDC) event hosted by Tim Schafer, founder of Double Fine...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (January 5th)
Here are our picks, but what are yours?
Here we are once again, happily lounging around for another weekend of gaming bliss. As always, team Nintendo Life has gathered around our enormously large table of chatter to discuss our weekend plans, sharing the games we hope to get stuck into and even some stories of picking up great games on sale. Feel...
Rumour The Next Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC Fighter Has Been Datamined
More evidence?
In the second half of December, there was a reported "leak" for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, originating on the Japanese textboard 5channel. It was regarding one of the extra fighters expected to appear in the game. The rumour gained traction because the apparent leaker posted information that was then of
"I cried when I found out what the project was"
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has more than 800 songs. If there's one standout track, it's arguably "Lifelight" - the main theme for the latest entry. Last November, we found out the English-language version of the track was performed by the singer and voice actor, Abby Trott. Previously, she's been...
Random People Are Making Meme-Worthy Smash Ultimate Tier Lists And They're Utterly Wonderful
Which characters can solve a Rubik's Cube?
If you're aware of Super Smash Bros. tier lists, and especially if you're of the opinion that they're essentially rather useless, then this article is absolutely for you. For anyone in the dark here, Smash tier lists are designed by players - usually those who play at a competitive level - to inform others...
News Amazon Reveals Top 100 Gaming Products Sold In 2018, Smash Bros. Ultimate Takes Top Spot
Mario Kart Wii amazingly makes the list
Retailing giant Amazon has shared a list of the 100 best-selling products under its 'Video Games' category throughout 2018 in the US. Nintendo has an impressively large presence in the list overall, even managing to snag the number one spot. While this list obviously only covers this one particular store,...
UK Charts Yearly Physical Switch Game Sales Increased By 90.1% In 2018
Smash Ultimate still sits strongly in top 10
UK chart data is now in for the week ending 29th December, giving us the final sales totals for the year 2018 and revealing which game enters the new year at number one. Unsurprisingly, the new year's number one honour goes to Red Dead Redemption 2, which has had a fantastically strong presence in the...
News Upcoming Spirit Event In Smash Bros. Ultimate Celebrates The NES And Famicom
Now you're playing with power
The themed events for the spirit mode in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate continue, with Nintendo's official Japanese Smash Twitter account revealing the next spirit board event will spotlight classic game characters from the NES and Famicom era. Here's the official announcement tweet: The event will begin on 4th January...
December2018
News Nintendo President Believes Switch Can Meet Sales Goal Before End Of Fiscal Year
Smash Bros. Ultimate driving sales
Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa recently spoke with the Japanese publication Sankei about the success of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and the Switch. He believes the strong launch sales for Ultimate can be credited to returning fans who may have played certain entries throughout the history of the series and...
Feature A Recap Of Nintendo Life Reviews In 2018
2018/10
It's the end of the year, a time of reflection, so today we're going to look back over the last 12 months of reviews across Nintendo Life. Reviews are our "bread and butter" so to speak, but have become quite a challenge for us as a team. The sheer amount of games currently being released means it's almost impossible to review everything;...
News Nintendo Support Webpage Suggests Mii Fighter Costume DLC Is Returning To Smash Bros. Ultimate
Put on your best outfit
Next year, Nintendo is releasing downloadable content for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on the Switch. If you register the game before 31st January you'll receive the Piranha Plant fighter. After this, you can look forward to the five Challenger Packs - with each one containing a new fighter, new stage and new music. If you opt...
Japanese Charts Smash Bros. Ultimate Stays In Top Spot While Switch Maintains Momentum
Dragon Quest Builders 2 debuts
Japanese chart figures are now in for 17th December - 23rd December and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on the Switch continues to reign supreme. The new entry in the long-running Smash series maintained its top spot, with an additional 452,617 retail sales - pushing it beyond the two million sales mark domestically and...
News Score Exclusive Spirits In The New Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Event
Get them while you can!
The new spirit event "Oh Yeah! Mario Time!" for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate begins on 28th December and will run until 1st January. During this period, three Super Mario Party spirits will appear on the spirit board. The golden dash mushroom - featured in Mario Party, but also known from other titles such as Mario Kart - is a...
Video More Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Glitches Than You Can Shake A Switch At
We always thought Villager was a bit creepy
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a fantastic game - we said so, so it must be true - but that doesn't mean that it comes without its faults. When we say "faults", though, we actually mean glitches, and some of these turn out to be rather hilarious indeed. YouTube channel A+Start has shared a new video which...
UK Charts Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Overtakes Splatoon 2 Lifetime Sales In UK
Red Dead takes Christmas number one
Despite only being on the market for three weeks, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has now sold more copies than Splatoon 2 in the UK. The game has seen a 24% drop in physical sales this week, slipping down to fifth place in the UK charts, but its tremendous overall start means that it is already the fifth best-selling...
News Nintendo Had Some Of The Most Talked About Games On Twitter In 2018
Fortnite tops the list
Last weekend, YouTube revealed two Switch game trailers were part of the top viewed gaming video list in 2018. This weekend, Twitter has now shared its own list of the most-tweeted video games in the US this year. Interestingly, four Nintendo franchises featured. These included Pokémon, Super Mario, Super Smash Bros. and...
News Nintendo Reveals Ten Most Watched Switch News Feed Videos In 2018
Ultimate and Pokémon clips dominate
Last weekend, YouTube revealed its top trending gaming video list for 2018. Two Nintendo game trailers were featured. The first was the Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! trailer in fifth place and the first look at
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Christmas? (Special Edition)
Here are our picks, but what are yours?
As regular readers will know, each Saturday we all get together to discuss our weekend gaming plans and see what our fellow community members are up to. This week is a little different, however, with many of us taking a little time away to celebrate the holidays and enjoy time with friends or family, or even...
Video Get To Know The Voice Of Mario And World Record Holder Charles Martinet
"I'm the luckiest guy in the world"
Last week, Charles Martinet - the voice actor of Mario and many other virtual characters - was awarded a certificate by the Guinness World Records for the most video game voiceover performances as the same character. Following the release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on the Switch, he's now voiced Mario 100...
News This Portable GameCube Controller Switch Adapter Hits Kickstarter Next Month
GameCube controllers on the go
If you're one of the countless Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fans who insist on playing with a traditional GameCube controller (or like using one, at least) then you might want to keep an eye on this little project. eSports team Panda Global has revealed that it will soon be starting a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign...
Video Playing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate With Just A Wii Nunchuk
Why? Why not?
When it comes to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, there are plenty of perfectly acceptable control methods. Using just a Wii Nunchuk is absolutely not one of them. We're a funny bunch here at Nintendo Life, so once the idea of using a single Nunchuk to play the game popped into our simple little heads, there was absolutely no going back...
