Idk why people keep saying it is not possible to be a totally new Smash because of development time, referencing old entries.

Let's go back and remember the development time of the other Smashs:


- Super Smash Bros: 1998-1999

- Super Smash Bros Melee: 13 months: (http://uk.ign.com/articles/2010/12/09/super-smash-bros-creator-melee-the-sharpest)

- Super Smash Bros Brawl: October 2005-December 2007 (https://web.archive.org/web/20061116161044/http://www.smashbros.com/en/main.html)

- Super Smash Bros WiiU/3DS: March 2012-September 2014 (http://andriasang.com/comya5/)


None of the entries in the frachise took more than 2 years and a few months of development time, so the Switch Smash being a new entry fits the schedule, especially considering it's less complicated than the Wiiu/3DS because it's only in one console. The reason why the gap between the last entry and the new one is shorter than the others is probably because WiiU had the shortest life of any Nintendo home consoles (Nintendo already said that each home console - generation - gets 1 new Smash).

Also, let's remember Nintendo president changed and the studios were restructured. Last year, I remember very few people believing Nintendo would release Odyssey and Xenoblade 2 in 2017, even websites were predicting delays because of development time. There were no delays and both games got critical praise.

I don't care if port or new.. I just want a single player campaign like in brawl.

there appears to be two different copyrights, one for the game and one for the characters. but in the Inkling reveal trailer, the only characters that were explicitly shown were the Inklings, Mario, and Link; all of which are Nintendo properties, so the additional copyright info would have been redundant. at E3 we will likely see a full blown trailer with a whole cast of characters shown with a character copyright similar to Smash 4 trailers.

im making the call, its a new game

While i think you're reading too much into the copyright information i think it's fairly certain that this is going to be somewhere in between a strait port and a new game. At least that's how Nintendo will market the title. I think it's going to be a port with improved online play, new stages, new characters, maybe even some a new single player mode like subspace emissary. Basically the ultimate Smash Bros game.

New... Zelda?

Does it count?

would be pretty cool

OP, you are using copyright info to "prove" it's a port whilst many others are using that very info to "prove" it's completely new.

Here's a statement: no one knows. I'm calling it now. (But please be new... and have a story mode.)