Ever since Nintendo’s E3 2011 press conference, gamers have been eagerly anticipating the arrival of even the slightest bit of news pertaining to the Wii U and 3DS versions of Super Smash Bros.. Since the games were announced, details have been extremely scarce, and the only official information to come from the Big N is that Namco Bandai will have a hand in the games’ development process.
Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai is still behind the helm of both projects, and he wants to ensure that speculation doesn’t get too blown out of proportion by the community. Instead, Sakurai plans on “making you wait for it,” according to his latest article in Famitsu magazine. He’s even going so far as to take a hiatus from Twitter in order to stay off gamers’ radars for the time being.
“To put it succinctly, I’ll need to have you guys wait a while longer. I hardly ever write anything on Twitter any longer, and that’s because I think right now is the time to stop tweeting and start putting in a real effort here. If I could put it a really harsh way, I think it’d be better if I could be forgotten by gamers for a while.”
“I don’t like it when a tweet or whatever leads to needless speculation getting spread around. For example, when I tweet about playing some game, some people immediately get the idea that that character is in the new Smash Bros. Then people fan the flames on it, people start to think it’s really true, people get angry about it. Nobody benefits.”
While the development process for Smash Bros. is well underway, it’s far from being anywhere close to finished, so it makes sense that Sakurai wouldn’t want to accidentally lead on gamers who’ve already been waiting on additional details for well over a year.
“Instead of talking about what Smash Bros. will be like, I’m just going to say ‘I’m making you wait for it!’ and keep going along. I want to put my all into a full-on launch that really makes that wait worth it.”
Despite a lack of official Smash news, the anxious community will continue to speculate, and that’s all it really can do at this point in time. More details regarding Super Smash Bros. 4 likely won’t be arriving until E3 2013, and even then it’s unlikely that the game will be arriving anytime soon. Regardless, the Wii U and 3DS both provide unique development challenges for Sakurai and his team, and it sounds like the finished product will be well worth the wait.
Are you amped to learn more about the next Smash? When do you think Super Smash Bros. will arrive on the Wii U and 3DS?
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Yeyyyy Smash Bros.!!!!
My guess is that this game probably won’t be released until around 2014 or 2015.
He said not to guess, you’ll just have to wait for it.
If it’s not gonna be like Melee, Project: M, or the original, then I’m not gonna buy it.
…Why even list the others when you’re practically saying “If it’s not modded Brawl, I don’t want it”. that’s one disappointment out of three, and then came M.
He said they would certainly try to do a better job this time In terms of balancing, I’m sure he’s sick of everyone COMPLAINING. Why would he want more of that on a bigger game? I’m sure It will be fine.
Also, even if it wasn’t perfectly balanced, someones bound to hack it. If you can suggest Project: M as a preference, would you buy it If someone balanced it again?
Lastly, He said he was trying something a little new this time, So it may not even be all that “like” other smash’s.
Brawl is better than Melee.
Melee is more broken than Brawl.
Donkey Kong, Bowser, Jigglypuff, Pichu, Mewtwo, and Yoshi are underpowered.
Fox, Falco, are overpowered,
More Clones
worstless characters like Roy, Dr.Mario, and Pichu.
Brawl has more variety in characters, better balancing, slower pace make it better.
Modded Brawl is terrible. It break the game even more.
If you going to say Brawl is worst one then that like saying
Pokemon Black 2 and White 2 are worst Pokemon game despite more effort put into it and content and how much better and advance it is to it’s predecessor.
Smash Bros. Melee was never intended to be like 64
Brawl was never intended to be like Melee
because if that was the case then we would have gotten a the same game.
The person to whom I’d replied to seemed to have a big enough disinterest in Brawl to suggest a future game may not be worth getting, to which I suggested would be a mistake- using ‘points’ they may not argue against- In view of their preferences, not mine.
Games obviously don’t need to be similar to be good.
I don’t need modded brawl to enjoy the game, never did. I enjoy it more than melee, 64 has to be my second favorite. My expectations upon getting the game didn’t go down. Yes, more attention was put into Brawl. Though Brawl isn’t necessarily perfectly balanced- I don’t see it to be that big a deal. The slower pace allows more room for newcomers, and It’s “too bad” for people who think It’s so slow since you can still utilize slower characters to show good potential, even though that’s not the only thing people moan about.
I’m pretty excited for the next smash. Not only to see all the revamped moves for each character, but I want to see an outstanding online mode. Hoping anyway.
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It will be released next year in the winter! No doubt about it