Super Smash Bros. Ultimate News
February2019
Rumour Next DLC Fighter For Smash Bros. Ultimate Seemingly Teased By Game Supervisor
Fueling speculation
Since last December, there's been a rumour Erdrick from Square Enix's long-running and insanely popular Dragon Quest series would be added as a DLC fighter to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. This character is depicted as a recurring legendary hero who wields a sword and is skilled with multiple weapons. This rumour became a little...
Random People Are Trying To Flog Smash Ultimate Piranha Plant DLC Codes On eBay For $30
Digital scalpers?
Amazingly, multiple listings have appeared on eBay for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Piranha Plant DLC codes, with prices being set at frankly ridiculous amounts. After launching as a free character for players who had purchased the full Smash Bros. game before 31st January, Piranha Plant has now become available to purchase directly...
News Piranha Plant Was Silently Nerfed In Day One Smash Ultimate Update
Spring pruning
If you've tried Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's latest character addition, Piranha Plant, you'll likely be aware that its aerial capabilities are rather strong. With two decent jumps and a really impressive recovery which sees it fly through the air, keeping Piranha Plant down and out can be a real challenge. As it turns out, the...
News Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's Balance Isn't A Concern For Masahiro Sakurai
It’s doing just fine according to battle data
Competitive games can be an absolute nightmare to balance due to a number of different factors in play. In the case of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, you would think it would be near impossible to keep each fight fair when there are now 75 playable characters. Apparently, though, each of the fighters in...
News Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Surpasses Five Million Sales In The US
Smashing stuff
If you hadn’t heard, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is already the third best-selling Switch game as of 31st December 2018. It managed to shift 12.08 million copies worldwide in a single month, placing it right underneath Super Mario Odyssey on 13.76 million
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (February 2nd)
Here are our picks, but what are yours?
Once again, we've successfully made it all the way through the week to the glorious weekend. As is tradition, Team Nintendo Life has gathered together to talk about our weekend plans, this time featuring friendly tournaments, dungeon-crawling, TATE mode goodness, and planty fighting machines. Feel free to give...
Random Sonic Team Composer Gets Masahiro Sakurai To Sign His Copy Of Smash Bros. Ultimate
What a nice guy
Masahiro Sakurai - the creator of the Super Smash Bros. series - isn’t only idolised by fans of his games, there are also people within the video game industry who consider him to be a living legend. One of these individuals is Sonic Team composer Tomoya Ohtani, who provided some remixed tunes for Sakurai's latest release on...
News Piranha Plant Is Now Available To Purchase As Paid-For Smash Ultimate DLC
In case you missed it
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's latest star, Piranha Plant, is now available for all players as paid-for DLC on the Nintendo Switch eShop. As you'll no doubt be aware, Piranha Plant joined Smash's roster earlier this week for all players who had purchased the game and registered it to
Video Messing Around With Piranha Plant In Smash Bros. Ultimate, For Science
#plantgang
Piranha Plant has arrived in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and it's utterly, undeniably, unashamedly glorious. Yep, earlier this week, Piranha Plant joined the Smash Bros. roster as the first DLC character released for the Switch's biggest fightathon. The release has been an interesting one; the arrival has generated a heartwarming amount...
January2019
News Smash Ultimate Exceeds 12 Million Worldwide Sales, Top Ten Best-Selling Switch Games Revealed
Mario's all over the shot
Newly updated sales figures for Nintendo Switch software has revealed that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has already shifted a whopping 12.08 million copies worldwide, making it the third best-selling game on the platform despite releasing just last month. The figure is even more impressive when you realise that the chart...
News The Latest Smash Bros. Ultimate Update Removes "Jack" And "Brave" Codenames
Both are gone
Ever since Nintendo announced there would be multiple DLC fighters added to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, there have been rumours and predictions about the next lot of characters on the way. One reported "leak" that gained plenty of traction, originated on the Japanese textboard 5channel. It was all because the apparent leaker posted...
Feature Predicting Super Bowl LIII with Super Smash. Bros Ultimate
Madden, schmadden
Super Bowl LIII is upon us all! This Sunday, the New England Patriots square off against the LA Rams for NFL supremacy. (As a Seahawks fan, barf.) It’s anyone’s guess who will take it all, but in the meantime, we can read the digital tea leaves with video game simulations. Ain’t the future grand? While, yes, EA Sports’s...
News Snag Your Favourite Mega Man Characters In The Next Smash Bros. Ultimate Spirits Event
A three-day event
The next Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Spirit Board event has been revealed, this time smothering the board with fan-favourite characters from the Mega Man universe. The news comes from an in-game message (we've grabbed a screenshot for you below), where it is explained that defeating these Spirits in battle will net you more gold...
News Some Players Are Experiencing Corrupted Save Files After Using Piranha Plant In All-Star Mode
Be careful!
For the last few glorious hours, players all over the world have been enjoying the bitey, leafy ways of Piranha Plant in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The character was added in an update to Version 2.0.0 just hours ago, but some players are experiencing a pretty nasty and worrying issue. As reported by unofficial account @SSBUNews,...
News Piranha Plant Is Now Available In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Version 2.0.0 has arrived
So much for a February release, as it looks like Piranha Plant is available right now in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate alongside the launch of version 2.0.0. Other than the addition of the 75th playable character, there are a number of fixes and adjustments to the online and offline experience. Nintendo has also shared...
News It Looks Like Smash Bros. Ultimate Version 2.0.0 Will Drop Tonight
Biggest update so far?
At the end of last week, an in-game message for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate revealed that an update to Version 2.0.0 would be released within the next seven days. It would appear that the update is now just hours away, with new information suggesting that it could land tonight. The news comes from an automated system set up by...
Random Microsoft Really Digs Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Is Steve joining the battle?
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fans have apparently lost their minds after Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass Twitter account reached out to Nintendo of America’s Twitter account on National Compliment Day. Microsoft’s social account sent a single tweet in Nintendo's direction, revealing its love for the ultimate Smash Bros...
News Japanese Booklet Reveals Upcoming Super Smash Bros. Ultimate amiibo
Everyone is here
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate amiibo collectors will be pleased to hear the next wave is seemingly on the horizon, with an anonymous user sharing a photo of a Japanese booklet showcasing unannounced amiibo on a Discord Channel. amiibo Alerts uploaded the photo on its Twitter account. As can be seen below, the page shows pictures of...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (January 26th)
Here are our picks, but what are yours?
It's Saturday (unless you're reading in this in the future, of course) which means that it's time for yet another weekend Talking Point. As always, we've rounded up various members of the Nintendo Life team and forc- *ahem*... kindly asked them to share their weekend plans, so make sure to give them a read...
News Another Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Game-Breaking Glitch Has Been Found
Black screen of doom
Another game-breaking glitch has recently been discovered in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, this time involving Duck Hunt Duo and a very specific setup for Mii Swordfighter. Discovered by Reddit users FlamingOranges and VocalEcho, this glitch falls much more in the "oh, well that's not good" category - like the
News Smash Bros. Ultimate Version 2.0.0 Arrives "Within 7 Days", Save Your Replays ASAP
Piranha Plant incoming?
Loading up your copy of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate today will present you with a new message indicating that Version 2.0.0 is on the way. As always, this means you'll need to get your favourite replay videos saved and exported. Just like with the 1.2.0 update last month, this update will wipe any of the replays you have...
Reminder You Have Just One Week To Claim Piranha Plant As Free DLC For Smash Ultimate
Here's how...
Attention all lovers of free DLC and angry, bitey plants! You have just one week from today to claim your free Piranha Plant DLC character for Super Smash bros. Ultimate. Yes, because 74 lovely characters just aren't enough, Piranha Plant is scheduled to arrive as the first bonus character "around" February - that's next month! If you...
News Smash Bros. Ultimate Recognised As Best Fighter At New York Video Game Awards
Nintendo Labo takes out kids award
Nintendo has received some extra recognition at the 8th annual New York video game awards, with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate being awarded the title of 2018's best fighting game and the Labo Variety Kit scoring best children's game. The Motion Twin title Dead Cells took out the best indie award
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...
