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Upcoming Super Smash Bros. video game
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Upcoming Super Smash Bros. video game
Developer(s) Sora Ltd.
Namco Bandai Games
Publisher(s) Nintendo
Director(s) Yoshito Higuchi
Masahiro Sakurai
Series Super Smash Bros.
Platform(s) Wii U
Nintendo 3DS
Release date(s) TBA
Genre(s) Fighting

The currently untitled fourth installment of the Super Smash Bros. (大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズ Dairantō Sumasshu Bruazāzu?) series is an upcoming fighting game being developed by Sora Ltd. and Namco Bandai Games and published by Nintendo. It was first announced at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2011. It will be developed for both the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS consoles, and it has been confirmed that the titles will have some form of connectivity across platforms.

Development
According to the game's lead developer, Masahiro Sakurai, development on the game had not begun at the time of its announcement, and began after the completion of Sakurai's other project, Kid Icarus: Uprising. The game is a joint-project between Sora Ltd. and Namco Bandai with Yoshito Higuchi, as director. For the 3DS version, Sakurai wants it to be more of an "individual" and "customizable" experience where, hypothetically, the player could take a customized character and upload it to the Wii U version.

Sakurai commented on the possibility of including a Capcom character in this iteration of the series, saying that "[he] can't say that it's entirely out of the realm of possibility that some Capcom character could appear in the next Smash Bros. The big problem, though, comes from the idea of trying to get characters from a completely different universe to fit with the style that has been dictated by Nintendo's characters in a fighting game."

The balance of the characters' powers were previously only measured by Sakurai, but he will involve his staff more in this game to make sure the characters are competitively balanced.

In September 2011, a photo of a supposed leaked document suggested a possible title of Super Smash Bros. Universe. However, Sakurai commented that he was still working on Kid Icarus: Uprising, and that work on the new Super Smash Bros. would not start until after the former was complete.[10] Uprising was subsequently released in March 2012.

In February 2012, Sakurai commented that, in his brainstorming for the future title, he had been looking over the information on the Smash Bros. Dojo (the official Smash Bros. website) and reflecting on the past game's development. He later commented that the game will "change directions", and emphasized connectivity between systems again. By June 2012, Sakurai reported that the game's development was in its first steps, and that he intends to bring back old Nintendo characters for it.

In August 2012, Sakurai stated that while the addition of third-party characters appealed to fans and broadened the Smash Bros. audience, he recognized the need to narrow down their inclusion since introducing non-Nintendo characters "willy-nilly" would lose focus of the game. He also noted that the game system had been completed. Feeling that the series had found its target audience and introducing gimmicks would hinder rather than help the brand, Sakurai explained that he was thinking of ways to introduce a new, different experience, while retaining the frantic gameplay from previous installments.

In January 2013, Nintendo confirmed that the first screenshots of the game will be shown at E3 2013.

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