My bet is on new smash, but it could be a port disguised as new. For the later we will never know for sure

OT: OMG ahhhhhhhhhhhh I'm crying!!!! Pls Crash come to smash!!!11

Yeah I don't see this being a new Smash game. It takes a long time to make a Smash game. The quality of a new Smash game would take years. I don't think Sakurai would jump right into making a brand new Smash right after the Wii U version. Especially with his health.

If it's a port, no shits I will give lol. I'll hold off caring until I find out.

The Wii U is my Smash Bros machine so that can only mean one thing.

*Throws Wii U in the trash*

These graphics are insane.
We all knew the Switch was powerful, but dam.

High Quality shadows, High Quality subsurface scattering, and Unbelievably detailed models.
The inklings look to be made up of an easy one million+ polygons.

Nintendo has taken real time rendering to the next level; good job.

Sure if they immediately started on the new game, but they made dlc up until 2016. That's most likely why despite it having been the normal timeframe of 3 years between Mario Karts, we got MK8D instead of MK9. They might still be able to frame it as a sequel though if there's enough new content, but expect it to be clearly using Smash Wii U as a base, much like Splatoon 2 uses the original.

It's not in game footage

Not necessarily. For instance, Clover Studios developed Okami initially, but it was later ported to the Wii by Ready At Dawn. Clover's name was nowhere to be found on the Wii version.

O/T: I would be stunned if this is a new title altogether. The last DLC was finished for Smash 4 in 2016, meaning this would be a two year turnaround time. Even if they started making a new game while making DLC characters and stages, a significant portion of the development team would be off doing something else while this Smash 5 was in development. On top of that, think of Sakurai, who said he was already exhausted to the point of considering quitting game development after Smash 4. Nintendo would have had to either somehow convince him to come back and make a new one almost immediately, or found a new developer altogether and had them put together a game faster than Sakurai ever managed to.

Additionally, announcing a new Smash game this soon before launch would be essentially unheard of. Smash is one of those games that relies pretty heavily on an extended marketing time to consistently drop new character trailers, and, well, you lose all of that pretty quickly with at most 8 or so months until the game releases.

Power of the cloud.

No Melee port?


Disappointing.