Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo Switch

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Super Smash Bros. (tentative title)
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Projected release date	2018
Genre(s)	Fighting

Super Smash Bros. (tentative title) is an upcoming fighting game for the Nintendo Switch. It was first announced on March 8th, 2018 at the end of the Nintendo Direct released the same day. It was announced to be a Nintendo Switch port of Super Smash Bros. 4.

Trailer

The first teaser trailer was revealed at the end of the Nintendo Direct on March 8th, 2018. It suggests that the Inkling is to be the first revealed newcomer to the game (although this has not yet been explicitly confirmed).

Confirmed elements

Silhouettes of characters found in the Direct.

Veterans

• Mario
• Detective Pikachu
• Link (CD-i design)

Other characters appear to be silhouetted, but they are less clear; Knack's horns, Jimmy Neutron's hair, and Master Chief's shoulders are clearly visible.

Other confirmed new elements

• Traps have been confirmed to be gay.
• Inkling, with Boy and Girl designs from the original Splatoon, has been confirmed to appear in the game as an Assist Trophy.
• Ridley is for sure getting in this time, I swear.
• Goku is announced alongside his SSB4 introduction.
• A Crying Jordan face.
• A story mode, but it's only a love story about Zelda and Falco.
• Daniel Craig will appear as a playable character.
• Sans has been confirmed to replace Ness while Lucas was cut entirely. Frisk and Papyrus were also confirmed as Assist Trophies.
• SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs finally join, being highly requested characters since Smash 64.
• An Atlanta Marta Bus.
• Randy "Macho Man" Savage, wielding a fishing pole and riding atop the Sun but also the Sun has sunglasses and says "I'm fishing for a fight, brother."
• Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's head mounted on the muffin man's body riding on Shamu but Shamu's mouth opens and Iron Man's in there and he says "Who ordered the fish and chips?"
• Bert and Ernie
• Jack Skellington
• Tony the Tiger
• Boss Baby behind a large pillar
• Homer Simpson. Half of his attacks invovle saying "D'oh!", including Thunder D'oh!.
• The guy who crashed the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter olympics.
• The Mario Brothers are announced as the first DLC characters.
• A "Coalition" between Maren Morris, Zedd, and Grey.
• Shadow is confirmed as a playable character.
• Shrek, in order to celebrate the impending release of Shrek 5 in 2020. His attacks blend what is seen in the films (including the fifth one whose script is finished), the book, and the video games.
• Walter White and Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad in an Ice Climbers-like duo. This also makes them the first Sony characters in Smash.
• Wallace and Gromit from their eponymous series, also playing similarly to the Ice Climbers.
• The protagonist of Fire Emblem for Switch, plus their 2nd cousin twice removed, and...you know what? Lucina again.
• Blinx the Time Sweeper, the only Microsoft rep.
• Orel Puppington
• Mona and 9-Volt.
• Pichu in its Melee form will return.
• You're all wrong. The roster is clearly in the gallery. Let me show it here, however: File:Ssb5.png

Development

Prior to the initial reveal, Nintendo filed a number of trademarks on November 12th, 2017, notably including a Japanese Super Smash Bros. logo. The logo was compared to the Japanese Super Smash Bros. Melee logo as they were nearly identical in appearance. A Super Smash Bros. title for Nintendo Switch was later officially revealed on March 8th, 2018 via a Nintendo Direct. Shortly after, Masahiro Sakurai, the lead developer for all previous Smash titles, confirmed in a tweet that he had been working on the game "in silence, day after day".

Gallery

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  Japanese logo

• TCSmashSwitch.svg

  Traditional Chinese logo

• SCSmashSwitch.svg

  Simplified Chinese logo

• Ssb5.png

  Roster

Trivia

• This is the first Super Smash Bros. game since the original Super Smash Bros. to not be announced alongside new hardware. Super Smash Bros. Melee was revealed alongside the final retail version of the Nintendo GameCube at E3 2001, Super Smash Bros. Brawl was announced alongside the Wii itself, then-codenamed Revolution at E3 2005, and Super Smash Bros. 4 was announced alongside the Wii U at E3 2011. Moreover, unlike the latter two games, this is the first time since Super Smash Bros. Melee that a Smash Bros. game is not announced years in advance, as Super Smash Bros. Brawl was announced in 2005 and revealed a year later, and Super Smash Bros. 4 was announced in 2011 and revealed two years later, with both releasing in 2008 and 2014 respectively.
• With Super Smash Bros. 4 releasing four years prior, this is the second shortest gap between Smash games; the gap between Super Smash Bros. and Super Smash Bros. Melee was about two years long.
• The revealed logo includes a slim cross going through the word 'SUPER' and the letter 'A'. This is the only Smash logo to do this.

External links

• Official Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo Switch website