Otter said:
MTZehvor said:
I'd argue the inverse; with a port, there isn't a significant need to show gameplay, since people will be pretty familiar with the product already. You don't need to remind people what Smash 4 plays like. With an entirely new game that's at most 8 or so months from launch, you'd want to show gameplay, or at the very least, more than just a mysterious blacked out shot of characters that's probably better described as a teaser rather than a full blown trailer. If it is a new game, it would presumably be Nintendo's biggest hitter of 2018; why keep so much information under wraps this early before release? It doesn't make a whole lot of sense compared just about every other big name Nintendo title I can think of.
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What was the last Wii U port Nintendo introduced with a cinematic CGI trailer?
What was the last Wii U port that Nintendo didn't explicitly say was a port?
... where Nintendo just left a placeholder year release (2018)?
They've been tone deaf in the past but never to this is extent. No one should be expecting a port.
Nintendo announcing Smash and releasing it the same year isn't that bizzare. Mario 3D World comes to mind, revealed E3 2013, released that holiday.
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What was the last game that Nintendo announced less than a year before release without any sort of title whatsoever? What was the last Smash game that started development immediately after the last one? What was the last Smash game that was without gameplay shown, or any sort of trailer besides a blacked out version of characters, this soon before release? Hell, what was the last game Nintendo announced that they didn't quickly confirm was a new game?
Regardless of whether this is a port or a new game, we're dealing with uncharted waters here. Even SM3DW was announced nearly a full year before release, in a January Nintendo Direct, and that was a relatively low key 3D Mario game compared to something like Galaxy or Odyssey. Announcing a brand new Smash with even less lead in time makes no sense at all, given that a Mario game has one major character to market, Mario, and Smash has literal dozens.
