Last week at E3 Satoru Iwata announced that Smash Bros. is coming to Wii U and 3DS, and there was much rejoicing, particularly when Iwata confirmed the two versions would be able to communicate with each other. A new Iwata Asks between the Nintendo President and Smash Bros. head Masuhiro Sakurai has delved a little more into the communication aspects players can expect.
Noting that carrying around a console creates a sense of personal ownership, Sakurai discusses the idea of having custom characters gain experience and level up while on the move, then return to the Wii U to battle on the big screen. Sakurai also praised the Wii U's HD capabilities, promising players 60 frames per second action with plenty of flashy visual effects.
However, for the first time in the series' history, Sakurai is aiming to leave character and gameplay balancing duties to other members of his team. What will this mean for your favourite character? We'll have to wait a few years to find out.
[source andriasang.com]
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A FEW YEARS???
NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I think the biggest challenge, is going to be balancing the leveling of the characters. If one person just wants the WiiU version how will they big disadvantaged.
A few years, huh... just in time for the PS4/XBox720 announcements lol.
I gues Nintendo are planning on the 3DS and the WiiU having long legs.
IF I buy a Wii U, Super Smash would be the title to push me to take the leap.
A few years? D:
Looking forward to what they have in store for us though, especially graphically.
Give me the Melee physics, please! Dx I can't bear the floating of Brawl... I like to believe that it's one of the reasons I hardly play Brawl. That, and the stupid, easy character unlocking! I now that childhood nostalgia clouds my mind, but surely character unlocking was much more rewarding in Melee? Can anyone not bound by the chains of nostaliga confirm this for me? ^ o ^
Thats great compared to how much time it takes to create a new super smash bros!
I thought it was over but now they are getting better ideas! Leveling up?
Kind of like an RPG! For the 3ds too?
I hope SSB won't become another Pokemon RPG, or i will never think of Nintendo again!
hope they'll expand on the 3rd party characters this time. Would love to see Leon Kennedy in it this time. What 3rd party characters would you lot like to see on the game?
@Raptor78: errm, what are you talking about? You seem to have no trust in Nintendo's consoles at all...
Hmm, character-leveling? Interesting, Smash Bros. is becoming an RPG...
The cross play between 3DS and the Wii U is going to be interesting. Would be cool if you can play anyone online no matter what they are on (3DS or Wii U).
A few years? Your optimism is refreshing.
SSB is in my opinion massively overrated by the Nintendo community. It's the only Nintendo series that I have failed to fully understand. And I consider myself a fierce Ninty fanboy.
A few years...that sucks. I was hoping this would be a Wii U launch title.
Please. We want more 3rd parties challengers like Pacman, Megaman and Travis Touchdown.
I think it's a little too early for a new Smash game. I'm still enjoying Brawl, and that came out in, what, like 2008? I mean, 2013 seems like a good release date for Smash 4. At least we won't be waiting 6 years like we waited for Brawl to come out.
@RyuZebian: Whilst character unlocking was perhaps too easy in Brawl, I wouldn't call having to play 1,000 VS Matches to unlock Mr Game & Watch or 20 VS hours to unlock Mewtwo 'rewarding' in Melee. It was a dull, nigh-endless slog.
I would like to see Goku, Cloud Strife, or Shadow added for third party I am not a fan of the metal gear seris so Snake didn't impress me but I liked Sonic in Brawl.
Nintendo has better give him a big team to work with- else we won't see this game in 5 years.
The production taking it's sweet time, as always. As long as they don't do as with Brawl... Do you remember the original release date?
Can't remember the difference in physics between Melee and Brawl...but yeah the easy unlocking of characters in Brawl was....ugh...I miss Melee's. Especially when they didn't have a Dojo site that told you EVERYTHING, and you get this mysterious silhouette with a siren and a "Warning:Challenger approaching!" message....I know it's in Brawl, but...with that Subspace, wish they would keep the character unlocking separate from multiplayer and story. Anyways, as long as I'm still able to have chaotic fights with Pokeballs/Trophies/Final Smashes on my 3DS, then they can do whatever. xD (also, bring back Mewtwo...)
However, for the first time in the series' history, Sakurai is aiming to leave character and gameplay balancing duties to other members of his team.
Will the Zelda characters be higher on the tier list now, and will metaknight be dumbed down? I really don't want Ganondorf to be made into a "good" character.
@BellGoRiiing: I completely agree with you. I played the heck out of Melee but after I beat the main story mode in Brawl I just lost interest :/ I hope the next SSB can meet somewhere in the middle between Melee and Brawl. Too bad they're steering away from the more "hardcore" aspect.
Well for me Brawl is still an awesome game. xD
Hopefully the staff of Project Sora don't think WD-ing was a good idea and bring it back :s
Hmm... I'm not too crazy about leveling up... But, as long as there are same amount of options, characters, stages, etc. on the 3DS than the Wii U, I'm sold.
@warnerdan
Your face is overrated. >:T
Leveling up!?
NOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Brawl with new stages, items, characters, moves, better single player mode, and some new creative ways to play (but keep the old ones too).
@warnerdan
The game is deep, engaging, magical; pretty simple concept, try putting down the bong first... And I consider myself a fierce Marijuana fanboy.
I would like to see Roxas, from KH, in this game.
Even once the game is "officially announced" with its working title and everything, we already know the game will take at least 2 years to develop. The Wii U will be here next year so that's already one year, thus totaling to possibly three years AT LEAST before we have these games. However, I hope I'm wrong and we see previews of these games next e3.
I'm just surprised they are making another one. I figured Brawl was the last seeing how long it took for that one. I can only hope there are even more playable characters, and those RPG-esqe ideas sound nice.
Unless they do something amazing with SSB on 3DS, I think I'll only get the Wii U version. I mean, SSB on 3DS sounds awesome, but the main reason I love Smash Bros. is the multiplayer, and it's harder to scrounge up $250 handhelds than $40-$60 controllers (I am, of course, talking about Wiimotes/Nunchucks/CCs/GC Controllers and not the New Controller, which there is only going to be one of per console anyway...) just to play a game of Smash Bros. Heck, that's my biggest problem with Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition: You either had to find friends with 3DSs (and the game if said friends happen to hate playing as Ryu...), play online (which you can't do everywhere and your opponents might be tougher than you...), or settle for playing against the CPU. Yeah, I know it's not the games fault, it's really just the fact that handhelds are much, much more expensive than controllers for consoles and it's not very practical for most people to buy two handhelds just for a friend to occasionally play multiplayer games, whereas most people will end up buying at least a second controller because they aren't that much (and I'm not saying handheld prices should be lower either, they do have much more meat in them, after all). I'm not saying this game will be terrible, I just don't see much point in having a multiplayer-oriented game on a handheld.
@supernin10do
I agree, Sora would kick butt in Smash Bros.
hmm. idk about some of this , but yea a new brawl should been on launch.
If by "Custom character" you mean "Create your own Nintendo hero" then count me in. I was always hoping for something like that, even though they'll probably mess it up in the process!
Now, if they could get balancing issues sorted out by some sort of update rather than having to rely on hacking like the Brawl community did, that'd be the best ever.
Anytime I see the terms 'gain experience' and 'level up' I die a little inside.
Just fix online, that is all I ask from this game.
They should put Professor Layton and Phoenix Wright in this game
Your Mii will probably be a playable character.... I'd like to see Maxwell from Scribblenauts make it into the game, but that's not happening.
A FEW YEARS!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I WANT IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
at least theres mario kart 3d and super mario 3d to look forward to.
Umm I dnt think thats Sakurai saying a few years, I think that Mr. James Newton is assuming it will be in a few years. And if he indeed said it was in a few years in a interview, then i apologize.
Hey, better have to wait 4 years and have a great game or to wait 1 year and have a very bad one. Patience is a virtue.
"A few years?"
Of course! The project has yet to start (or has just started). Sakurai comes straight from Kid Icarus uprising. He can't do everything at once!
As long as it's good, I am happy!
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