Rumour: CoroCoro Appears To Confirm That Smash Ultimate Actually Has 108 Stages

Rumour? Unless it’s a miscomunication I’d say this is factual news.

Makes sense as we haven't seen "Spirits" the single player story mode yet so they are probably stages based on levels in the story. Well if ti's anything like Subspace Emissary anyway. Spirits could just be 5 non-connected levels. Maybe you can't even play the Spirits levels in the regular battle mode of the game but they included them in the count anyway.

Yes, I know Spirits isn't confirmed but I had to call it something.

Click Clock Woods and Banjo confirmed!
(am I doing that right?)

Just looking at that bar graph makes me more excited. So much content in this game.

@BladedKnight or stages for unannounced characters? Probably typo tho.

To be fair, we have that unannounced Monster Hunter stage that was shown off. And considering Rathalos appears as an Assist too, it makes no sense to have a stage just to fight it. That would be a waste.

So it is likely a Monster Hunter stage is happening. So that would make the count 104. So finding another 4 stages considering it's Sakurai is actually very plausible.

Highly likely they'll be revealed in a direct next month

If this is true, they are most definitely new stages and not returning ones. There would be no reason to hide legacy content after showing every other returning stage.

5 brand new stages would be nice.

It could be a typo, but most probably we are having 5 new characters before the release date, each one with their stage.

If you think about it, we've received 7 new characters since the E3, from which, 4 aren't echo. This isn't stopping now, so 5 more characters with their respective stage seems very plausible to me.

5 more stages; guess we're getting about or less than 5 new series being introduced in ssb ultimate

@BladedKnight I honestly think Smash ultimate wont get dlc; Sakurai would want the game to be ultimate and fully complete at launch, after all he worked hard for this to be a reality

Too few new stages in Ultimate for my taste. Hope it's true!

Mario's one long mouth-filling tooth in that image scares me..

after looking at the character banner, I see 5 to 6 spots a character can reasonably be added to due to "empty" spaces. I said reasonably, I don't honestly believe will get 5 to 6 more characters.

But if they were all new characters that could line up to each having their own stage.

hopefully one of them is a xenoblade 2 stage that comes with rex with pyra/mythra.

I never assumed 103 was the final number.

If they're going to add more new characters they're obviously going to add more stages? Seems pretty logical to assume we'll get more than 103 stages at least.

I suspect it's a typo. Oddly, an additional 5 stages would still leave a single empty slot on the selection screen (there's 6 free slots), so if there were still stages to reveal I'd have thought there's be 109 stages rather than 108.

Big Final Destination confirmed

@EmberTune You do know the characters all get moved on the banner after each reveal? They make spots, they don't put them in ones that look open now.

@Alex18 Almost certainly only new ones if we do get any. They've already revealed about 96 retro stages in two swoops, there's no reason to hold off on the remaining 13 or so stages, especially since most of them have issues or are incredibly similar to stages that did come back.

@Raylax That's because the last slot will likely be the extra menu for DLC Stages / Training Stage / Custom Stages

We're definitely getting Geno, Vergeben who's been right about everything says there's a Square character coming and we all know Sakurai has been wanting to put Geno in forever, plus he's very very highly requested, plus he was a Mii costume in 4 and we know after Inklings, K. Rool and Isabelle that there's a bit of a trend going on there. I'd say he's 100% at this point, and I think the odds of him coming without a stage is 0%, so at the very least we can put the theory of 103 being the final count to rest. 108 sounds like a believable amount.
Venus Lighthouse will be one, I'll bet my piggy bank on it.

@link3710 I thought that was the case, I just couldn't find the original banner, and since I'm at work I didn't put that much effort into finding it. I just know duck hunt was moved, but not by a lot.

I feel like my "theory" is still valid since those spots could be opened even more with some shifting but not completely moving the characters to a different side.

@EmberTune I think you're right.

@EmberTune While that would seem likely, some of the spots characters have been put in don't appear to take any 'open' spots. Look where Isabelle is now, that wasn't an 'open' spot at all. Same with how Dark Samus involved moving Shulk, Pac-Man, Ganondorf, Peach and Ness all slightly, closing small gaps all around without using any one space that'd fit a full character.

@link3710 I'm not disagreeing with you, all the spots I'm looking at (if characters weren't moved) would have to be be small characters, but in each case I can see the other characters being moved slightly to fit a "bigger" character in.

Like I said, I don't honestly believe my theory is correct. I do see it as plausible. I'm just using the context clues I have with the leak of 108. The fact that characters have slightly been moved to fit the new ones support my theory I feel. Do we get five or six more characters with three months to go and one of those months having a direct? I don't think so unless we have three more echos.

@SpaceboyScreams I refuse to say 100% for Geno. I want him in soooooo bad, but I don't want to jinx it.

Would have liked to see Poke Floats, Rainbow Road, Woolly World and Orbital Gate return, but that would leave only one more new stage so I can't see that happening. New stages for the last few characters yet to be revealed would be very nice

Forest Maze and Mute City? I always felt Port Town Aero Dive was a worse version of the latter, since the vehicles become death hazards rather than just annoyances.

I'm fine with the number we already have to be honest.
But what i'm really wondering is: will the Stage Builder mode return?

@Sebas That is a good question. Stage Builder is normally included since Brawl, I just hope they bring it back with the best parts of both previous stage builders. Even the themes.

@GrooveManyula Hopefully it returns and we'll get more details in the next Smash focused direct. I probably spent more time in the Stage Builder than any other mode in Brawl.

I'd be ok with this if true. Only 8 brand new stages total (New Donk City, Great Plateau Tower, Moray Towers, Dracula's Castle, the rumored 4 remaining) in Ultimate seems really low, but I mean 97 returning stages is absolutely -nuts-. Plus we don't know if Stage Builder is returning or not.

It's gonna be so fun playing through all these stages.

If I were Sakurai I would try to go for an even 110 or I guess in this case excluding battlefield, the big edition, and final destination, it would be 105 which also works

Pllleeaaaassseee, I hope one of them is Spiral Mountain from B-K.

108 stages? Spiritomb confirmed!

I'm sure some people have said this, but in the alleged story mode, we saw unlisted stages like the monster hunter one, which may be unlockable by beating the bosses or something similar.

Space Colony A.R.K. I want a Sonic Adventure stage!

@DarkSithDoom sure, it's going to be ultimate, and I don't expect them to be rushing DLC out the door.

But I definitely see potential for DLC characters later on. There's already such a large roster that it would be way better to expand it than to start a new game and work out what can be kept.

@darkswabber The fact that there's a chance of it being a mistake is why it's being reported as a rumor. Jumping to a conclusion is obviously not something a news outlet would want to be known for, no matter how likely that conclusion may have seemed at the time.

I think there will be mote stages still ro be announced and some new character which they are saving just close to release. And last the storymode.

@SapphireFlame every piece of news has a change of being a mistake, yet we report on it as news. They are humans too, they’re allowed to make mistakes, if it turns out false just correct it in another article. Also since when is corocoro so unreliable it should be taken with a grain of salt?

@HobbitGamer Don't tease with matters of such importance!