MTZehvor said:
Do you know if this actually wound up being the case, or was just something Sakurai said in the category of "I'm definitely not working on another Smash game?" I could swear I heard that some development had begun prior to KIU's wrapping up. Regardless, another point is that it would mean jumping straight from developing one Smash game to the next and operating under that same high pressure environment he's spoken out against consecutively, which also seems abnormal. |
All the information I've seen has said that absolutely no development had begun on smash wiiu before kid icarus was released. Sakurai even said that it was a mistake announcing that the games were being made in 2011, because they had done nothing up to that point.
The main point against it being a port is that they didn't treat it like a port. They treated it like a brand new game. If it was a port they would have shown gameplay. Lack of gameplay suggests that there is something new. Every port nintendo has announced has had at least some gameplay.
