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Cloudman on 08 March 2018
SKMBlake said:
Cloudman said:
 I don't really expect Sakurai would jump into that cycle again shortly after Smash 4.

Well, Sakurai went beyond your expectations cause he's working on the game

I have been hearing about that lately, but I'm still a little skeptic. His tweet sounds a little ambiguous, merely stating he's been working on it.



 

              

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HyrulianScrolls on 09 March 2018

Could be some cool potential for a Mario and Cappy character ala Rosalina and Luma.



vivster on 09 March 2018

About time. Though I wonder if anyone will even play it so occupied with Mario Tennis.



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LipeJJ on 09 March 2018
Jranation said:
Yerm said:
E3 is going to kill everyone just from the sheer amount of hype generated

Nintendo already won e3 :p

Absolutely. This E3 might feature Pokémon, Metroid Prime 4, Bayonetta 3, SMTV, Animal Crossing, Yoshi, Fire Emblem and Super Smash Bros. And that’s what we “know”, there will be surprises as always. This might be the best E3 ever, actually.



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Wyrdness on 09 March 2018
MTZehvor said:
Wyrdness said:

They already have a game engine so why is 4 years too short? XBC2 reused an engine and made new assets for a new game in 3 with half the team.

Several reasons.

First, it's not really four years. Smash 4 was still being worked on with DLC up until 2016, and while in this hypothetical scenario they could have split the dev team between working on a new game and DLC, it'd still be a limited effort for the first two years.

Second, Masahiro Sakurai was so exhausted at the end of Smash 4 development that he quite literally said he was considering quitting video game development. Either Nintendo would have had to somehow convince him to come back basically immediately after that and make anew Smash game, or basically immediately find a new director who could somehow have a new game out within two years of the last one being supported.

Finally and somewhat unrelated to development, this kind of approach to marketing really just doesn't make sense for Smash. Smash, like most fighting games, tends to use a long lead-in period before release to build up hype with new character announcements and trailers. A game scheduled for 2018 would have a grand total of eight or so months to build up hype, and I can't imagine Nintendo shorting such a big hitter with that little marketing time.

Go and read Sakurai's recent tweet and his last statement about when he was taking a break, back in 2016 he said his next project was already decided as he was returning and his recent tweet he says he's been working on the game everyday, nothing you've said here debunks what I posted as when this game releases later this year it would be near enough 4 years which with an engine already available is more than enough time. As I said XBC2 with the same engine as XBX was made with half the team in 3 years so the same is possible with Smash, DLC doesn't require the whole studio.

Your comment about marketing doesn't make much sense tbh because the whole marketing for the Switch has been different and it's been for the better Smash is a big enough title it doesn't need years to hype up it's the biggest fighting game franchise around.



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Jranation on 09 March 2018
LipeJJ said:
Jranation said:

Nintendo already won e3 :p

Absolutely. This E3 might feature Pokémon, Metroid Prime 4, Bayonetta 3, SMTV, Animal Crossing, Yoshi, Fire Emblem and Super Smash Bros. And that’s what we “know”, there will be surprises as always. This might be the best E3 ever, actually.

Yes! We have to believe just like these SMASH beggars xD 



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gentii on 09 March 2018

Ultrashroomz said:
HYPE!!!

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PSintend0 on 09 March 2018

They must have recycled a lot of things from the previous smash, but it seems to be new ish game. Smash games are quite similar to each other so it wouldn´t be necessarily a bad thing. Or maybe they will use the splatoon/arms method of releasing new free characters/stages etc. later on. Or just huge amounts of costly dlc



Rogerioandrade on 09 March 2018

The "working title" quote on the copyright line shown at the Japanese Direct points that this is definetely a new Smash game. What a relief.

They are, I believe, making use of the character models and gameplay from Smash WiiU with new modes and stages.



Rogerioandrade on 09 March 2018
MTZehvor said:
SKMBlake said:

He just tweeted that he was working on the game every day 

Sure, but working on a port is a lot less taxing than working on a full new game.

Last time he was working on two games simultaniously: Smash for 3ds and Smash for WiiU. That must have been really exhausting

Now, he´s working for one game and he´s probably making use of the same assets of the previous one (similar Splatoon / Splatoon 2 scenario ), which I believe makes his work much easier.

I was also skeptical about a new Smash game so soon, but this really  seems the case.