The Wii U is still on track to launch later this year, and gamers still know little to nothing about it. Sure, President of Nintendo America Reggie Fils-Aime has assured the curious masses that more Wii U information will be released throughout the year, but we likely won’t know what to expect from the new console’s launch lineup until E3 2012.
Many gamers likely have a wish list detailing which games they’d love to see launch alongside the Wii U, and it seems they can now officially cross a new Super Smash Bros. game off of it.
Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai has once again confirmed that the next Smash Bros. “may take a while.” Gaming mag Nintendo Power recently got a chance to chat with Sakurai, and they attempted to squeeze some more information out of the developer about the next set of Smash games. All they got was disappointment as his words were far from encouraging for fans waiting with baited breath for a 2012 release. Still, Sakurai assured them that their “patience will be rewarded.”
“I can’t really say anything until things settle down with Kid Icarus. …And a lot of it will depend on the team that I end up assembling for Smash Bros. It may take a while, but I think your patience will be rewarded.”
Nintendo originally announced that brand new Smash Bros. titles would be coming to both the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS during their press conference at E3 2011. Since then, there’s been absolutely no information released about either, with the most exciting information revealed thus far being alleged documents with information regarding a game called Super Smash Bros. Universe. Still, when faced with the alternative of nothing, rumors certainly have a nice appeal.
With development nearing completion on Sakurai’s latest 3DS game, Kid Icarus: Uprising, both Smash Bros. games can’t be that far away. Who knows, maybe Nintendo will shock everyone with a last minute teaser trailer during E3 2012.
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Nintendo has a lot to do to make up for brawl.
brawl was awesome
No, no it wasn’t.
Brawl failed if you compare it to Melee.
Brawl should have been a kiddy amatuar tingle game.
Hope they add an option to make your own textures on the wiipad to eliminate the need for texture hacking. (which is easier to spread but still requires hacking)
No sh*it there’s not going to be a Smash Bros. game at launch. People that actually expected that are a bit retarded. Excuse my harshness but it’s just stupid. I really hope it’s something grand! I can’t wait to own Wii U.
We will see. Their last installment in the game sucked.
Super smash bros was great. It started something that can only be summed up in one word. Epic.
Melee did everything the first did. But did it better in every way. Melee was imo the perfect fighter.
Brawl… Brawl had mario party’s dev team making it. It slowed it all down to a crawl. It made the game for casuals. because that’s what bought the system. Hardcores are gone. So they made the game easy mode. I’m not saying brawl wasn’t fun. I’m saying it pales in comparison to what the other games had going for it. If you look at the game, I mean really LOOK, you will see it’s got all kinds of things to help out the sucky player.
This new one better have a hardcore mode and a easy mode.
That’s your opinion dude. I honestly think Brawl is a ton better than Melee.
Okay. Yes it is.
The thing is Nintendo targeted different people when they made brawl. Instead of going for the people who made the series popular in the first place they catered to the people with slow re-action times. Did brawl even have a lightening mode?
Brawl was slow. Added mechanisms to help out the weak player. They took away a skill which would have benefited good players and made it something random. Online was a joke.
Melee was skill based. The better you were the more it showed.
I can only think of one thing that brawl improved upon the those before it. Textures.
I don’t get all the hate for Brawl. It was a fun game, one that I’ll likely still be playing many years from now. Melee might be the “crown jewel” in many gamer’s eyes, but to me that game was TOO fast and frantic to enjoy. I love the huge amount of stuff that you could do in Brawl:
Online matches
All-Star Mode
Stage Builder
An actual story mode (Subspace Emissary)
Third-party characters (Sonic and Snake)
Assist Trophies
Final Smashes
Challenges to unlock
CD’s to collect
Who cares if the fighting mechanics aren’t exactly the same as in Melee? Melee’s fighting mechanics weren’t exactly like Smash 64, and no one complained back then.
And to all those “hardcore vs casual” debates: STOP! Who cares if a game is labelled “casual” or “core”… They are just pointless labels that have no real meaning.
You just have to take a second to look through the profusion of trophies that Super Smash Bros. Brawl has to see that it was still catering to the nintendo fans: what casual gamers want to delve into the history of the company? Sure the gameplay is slightly slower, but I personally think it’s also more fluent.
Let’s just look to the future prospect of Super Smash Bros. 4 with optimism; we know that, regardless of the design direction it takes, we’re going to be getting a polished product! Haha
Melee was way better than Brawl, without a doubt but I find myself playing Brawl more when my friends come over because there are so many more characters and levels, including most of the best from Melee. Hope they keep that going in the new one.
brawl is still my favorite by content amount alone. I dont think Nintendo “announced” new smash bros they just simply hinted at them being in the works, not anywhere near completion.
Yeah. That game may take a while.