The news is out - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is headed to Nintendo Switch this December, bringing back every single character that has ever appeared in the franchise. Amazingly, it appears that all of this information surrounding the new release may have been teased by Nintendo years ago in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.
In the Wii U game, a co-op event called 'The Ultimate Battle' can be played, tasking you with defeating every character that was present in the roster at the time. You can see a screenshot of this event's description screen in @LiquidHbox's tweet below.
The wording here is particularly interesting. You may remember that spine-tingling moment from the new game's reveal which declared "Everyone is Here!" (as seen below). Now, look back at the image in this tweet and compare - the emphasis given to the word "ultimate", as well as the "they're all here" line, are both surprisingly in line with the new reveal. *Cue mysterious, sci-fi conspiracy music*.
The chances of this being a definite tease and not just an almighty coincidence? Possibly rather slim. Although it's definitely possible that Sakurai and his team had already discussed the idea of having every fighter available in the next game, so maybe it was a cheeky little hint at things to come after all. We'll never know...
Was it a clever nod that wasn't picked up before now, or just a strange coincidence that has no meaning at all? Let us know which side you'd vote for in the comments below.
[source twitter.com]
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Nope, people just making connections where there isn't any.
The wording isn't even the same.
And I thought the Switch port of Bayonetta 2 hinted it first. Oh well, at least they hinted Rodin will come as an assist trophy.
Ummmm..... I don't think so. However, they might be planning "Smash Bros. Even More Ultimate" for the Switch U.
@Tsurii Dunno. Let's go back to 2012 and ask them. Guess the same could be said for the 3DS version too.
While we are there, let's ask them if they planned to rob us with a half-assed Wii game that is just using Melee's engine too.
Why did I click on this?
@ryancraddock
Surely then Smash for WiiU should have been called Smash Penultimate? 😄
Seems like to a bit of stretch to me.
@Tsurii Nice try. Sakurai “half-assed” Smash 4 so badly that he wound up being hospitalized. There was nothing “half-assed” about Smash 4.
The other way around I think... more like paying a homage to that particular line
@MegaMari0 Exactly what I was thinking.
Wouldn't really surprise me if it's connected to the new game. It's a neat idea and something Sakurai has probably had on his mind for a long time.
This piece of evidence might be a stretch, but aside from this, I've actually suspected since the E3 trailer this year that they had the goal of including 70 characters for Smash 4, a roster with not only nearly every Nintendo protagonist but every major 3rd party mascots well. But they soon rralized it was take far more work than their budget allowed. So they set up their first game to introduce a lot of those 3rd party mascots in Smash 4, found that DLC was a great revenue source for continually adding new characters, and by the time Ultimate comes along, they simply have to put everything in the box and tie the bow. All while listening to fan demand even harder and tweaking it for one final mega-crossover project
Maybe the U in Wii U stands for ultimate... as in The last one.
@Tsurii
Congratulations! Your half-assed comment has earned you a special prize today.
Ummmm, I'm pretty sure this was teased back in ULTIMATE Mortal Kombat 3, which was a gussied up port of the previous game, only with every character who had been in the series up to that point.
Damn, that’s some real foreshadowing there.
@Bunkerneath eggsactly, same with books or art...
@Tsurii The Wii U game wasn't half-arsed by any stretch of the imagination, and no amount of of your salt can make it true.
@Tsurii You can't honestly be that ignorant? Using the same engine and reusing some assets is the absolute norm for sequels...every Smash has done it not just this one...so has every CoD....every Battlefield....the vast majority of sequels. You don't know enough about this game to call it half-assed.
Remember guys, the game is called Special in Japan, not Ultimate.
@Tsurii Makes sense, since even by this point they could tell the Wii U wasn't going to be worth the effort.
I would be too surprised if this was one of the ideas that were brainstormed during the make of the Wii U and 3ds but wasn’t possible.
With that said, I’ll say the almighty coincidence. I guess because fans can pick apart anything now a days to have a hidden meaning (watch too much YouTube connection videos).
People can really make a conspiracy out of anything huh?
As I'm sure that Tsurii's inbox is going crazy due to his comment, I won't tag him. However, what were expecting from smash 4/5 that has you so angry about the game?
@Tsurii Halfassed??? it's the best Smash bros to date, bro...
@vincentgoodwin Yeah but unlike Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Ultimate MK3 didn't have every characters from the MK series up to that point though: Johnny Cage, Raiden, and Baraka were still missing and even then you couldn't play as Rain or Noob Saibot until the Super NES and Genesis versions and even so you're still missing Sheeva in those as well. It was MK Trilogy that had all the characters up to that point and the reason it does is because well it's a trilogy game and a lot of the returning characters were mostly reuse sprites (except Johnny Cage).
@amiiboacid Not to mention this exact event doesn't have either "Special" or "Ultimate" in its title or description in Japanese.
@Savino That's how I read it. Not a tease so much as a callback.
More likely it's a call back to that, rather than a tease.
@Tsurii Try and tell Sakurai that he half-assed Smash 4 when he stressed himself out to death.
What does this have to do with Smash Ultimate? Exactly, nothing.
Must be a slow news day... or just NL's journalistic quality heavily deteriorating in the last few months.
Smh. Such a slow news day.
I think this is a bit of a stretch myself but this is still pretty cool!
I'm going to make a fighting game, set on a beach.
"You will fight them on the beaches."
OMG! I must’ve planned this game DECADES ago!!!
Homage or foreshadowing aside (though I think this is a bit of a stretch), I enjoyed Smash on Wii U. Definitely worth every penny!
...and my first proper Smash Bros.
@Tsurii Ah yes, the 200-ish hours to complete the game and the endless others from multiplayer, how will we get those back?
Smash Ultimate wasn't even in its planning stages until around the time of the Smash 4 DLC, according to a Famitsu interview with Sakurai.
So, no. This is bull.
According to Sakurai, development of the game started in December 2015, well over a year after the Wii U game released. That description is just a common expression.
Stupid clickbait article.
How are people writing this off? This is amazing foreshadowing! XD There's no way they accidentally wrote something like that, get your minds out of the gutters.
I am sure the idea of putting every character in the game was considered more than once in the past, but written off because it is such a massive task. I suspect once again Sakurai is working himself to the bone. I only hope people keep him from working himself into the hospital. I'd rather the game get delayed then the man half kill himself making it!
I always thought the “u” was for Wii upgraded. Maybe it was suppose to mean Wii ultimate too.
@Tsurii
Anyone insinuating Smash on Wii U was anything less than one of the most jam packed games ever made (more fighters than any other game in history or in the Smash series itself) is a bold individual.
Calling it half assed is a half assed remark
I'm guessing coincidence, unless they used the word "special" in the Japanese version too
To be honest, I'm not a huge fan of Smash and when I look at the game I see more a " SUPER SMASH BROS for WiiUpdated " than a brand new SMASH Ultimate...
I bought it on the Wii U so I'm not going to pay again for the same game with extra content.
Nah. Concincidence.
Awesome stuff, Sakurai is just amazing. Maybe someday he will give us Kid Icarus 2....
@Cobalt its actually not the same game so you can pay for it without hesitation ;3
"The wording is uncanny"
No, the wording isn't. The reaching, however, most certainly is...
It is very interesting.
@uoi100
Out of question ! I refuse to collaborate in terms of giving credits to Nintendo to be so lazy since december 2017...
I want to play fresh things on my Switch not updated games...
PS : I just bought Y's VIII but on PS4 because it was 19.99 Euros brand new here in France. So even that game that I planned to play on the Switch, screwed ! Why paying 60 if I have a better version for 19.99 ???
Really hope a big Direct with NEW games because I have a huge rush coming now to do what several friends did... selling my Switch. :/
The hype from seeing the trailer spoiler-free was pretty great. "EVERYONE IS HERE" gave me a nice goosebumpy feeling
That's ridiculous. It's just describing what the word "ultimate" means to the devs (in that screenshot & that mode). Nothing on there being a new game , or that it would be called "ultimate".
@Tsurii How is the game "halfassed"? I had nothing but fun with Smash 4.
I’ve been trying to think about it like MatPat would😂 but I guess it depends when that event started. If it started around the time they had thought about making ultimate then it seems likely.
I honestly don’t know about the “ultimate” challenge because 3DS only has All-Star, where you fight all the smash 4 characters in their respective years. Either way.... BAYONETTA GONNA GET NERFED
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