Nintendo Direct Smash Recap

[LiteralGrill]

Despite the fact that it aired on April 1st, yesterday's Nintendo Direct was no joke! With many exciting Smash related announcements, fans of the series have a ton to be excited about in the coming months! A trailer for Mewtwo was shown and Smash veteran from Brawl Lucas was shown out of nowhere, but there were other exciting updates for the game as well. Alongside Mewtwo becoming available for those with the free download code on the 15th the game will get an update to Version 1.0.6. This update will add the ability to purchase add-on content, add the ability to share screenshots, Mii Fighters, replays, and customs stages on the Wii U version, a balance patch, and "other adjustments for more enjoyable gameplay." The Mii Fighters will not only gain the ability to be shared however, there will also be new sets of costumes available for purchase!

Mii Swordfighter Becomes A Monkey? Finally Top Tier!​

Nintendo announced that they will be releasing costume packs inspired by famous franchises alongside other cool costumes for players to customs their Miis in battle with. Each individual set will cost $0.75 for version and $1.15 for both versions, and the bundle with all of the new costumes will cost $6.00 per version and $9.20 for both games. But the excitement didn't stop there!

After discussions with game director Masahiro Sakurai, a Super Smash Bros. Fighter Ballot has been created. This will allow players to directly send suggestions to the development team for characters players want added to Smash! The website says it is only accepting video game characters and requests only one vote per person so Smash fans will have to choose carefully. The ballot is available on the official Smash Bros website.

More #amiibo are on the way in May! http://t.co/yZExyhsOwO #NintendoDirectNA pic.twitter.com/1sCwDiNLv6

— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) April 1, 2015

More amiibo news was released as well, showing off the next waves of amiibo that will be hitting the shelves in May. Dark Pit and Palutena are coming in July with Olimar, Bowser Jr., Doctor Mario, Zero Suit Samus, and Ganondorf coming in September. Plans for Lucas and Mewtwo amiibo were also announced but there wa no mention of a possible release date.

There were many other exciting announcements and news updates happened during the direct related to other Nintendo products as well. Stay tuned to Smashboards for the rest of our Nintendo Direct Recap!

SmashCapps put his vote in for Harry from Teleroboxer since he wants Virtual Boy represented in Smash! Follow him on Twitter to discuss everything from the Nintendo Direct.

 

[Silic0n]

The best part of the direct for me at least was seeing the fighter ballot. It means that Nintendo actually will listen to at least some of what the fans want.

 

[Xavix]

I'm so excited nintendo is going the dlc route with smash bros.
Hopefully these new editions will be awesome.
Why am I saying hopefully, they WILL be awesome

 

[Globe]

pay respect to all the employes that have/count to read every submission.

 

[JeffsMov]

"other adjustments for more enjoyable gameplay."
Now now... are we nerfing Greninja again?
Or maybe re-using the vectoring, again?
Buff to Diddy Kong?
Patching a tech?

There are a lot of possibilities....

 

[Marrow]

1:22 Everyone's response to Diddy

 

[dezeray112]

You can say I'm glad Nintendo are continuing to provide ongoing support for Smash.

Other than that, I really am looking forward to the Fire Emblem if game overall.

 

[Smash_Veteran_Amtoj]

pay respect to all the employes that have/count to read every submission.

F

I think Nintendo probably should have filtered out certain names like Goku or Naruto to save them the trouble.

 

[JeffsMov]

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I think Nintendo probably should have filtered out certain names like Goku or Naruto to save them the trouble.

Basically, half of the requests tho.

 

[YourFaithfulStudent]

Smash 4 DLC! Vote for Bomberman! https://cp.nintendo.co.jp/us/

 

[E.Lopez]

I wonder how will the replay share work? We probably can't upload directly to YouTube, but I'm guessing there will be highlights you can watch that have been shared by the community.

On another topic, I can't decide who I would want to vote for on the ballot.

 

[JeffsMov]

I wonder how will the replay share work? We probably can't upload directly to YouTube, but I'm guessing there will be highlights you can watch that have been shared by the community.

On another topic, I can't decide who I would want to vote for on the ballot.

Well, back in brawl, the replays were only small files of that, with every players' inputs, I can guess Smash 4 works the same way, so it's gonna be a small files, meaning, easy to share.

 

[Kirby Dragons]

Do they actually enforce the "one vote per person" rule? Because I voted for five people in separate ballots.

 

[Chinaux]

VOTE PICHU

 

[Vipermoon]

How did Sakurai agree to this? His wrist hurts and he just wants a break. He constantly reminds us of this.

 

[YourFaithfulStudent]

How did Sakurai agree to this? His wrist hurts and he just wants a break. He constantly reminds us of this.

>His wrist hurts
GOOD GOD HOW WILL HE SURVIVE!

(all jokes aside i was thinking the same)

 

[The21stSmasher]

LOL! Sakurai, you're terrible at keeping your word are you? You say that you won't do anymore balance patches, but look at you now XD

Btw, I voted for Paper Mario and I hope you did to @ aldelaro5

 

[aldelaro5]

LOL! Sakurai, you're terrible at keeping your word are you? You say that you won't do anymore balance patches, but look at you now XD

Btw, I voted for Paper Mario and I hope you did to @ aldelaro5

I WILL, but haven;t YET.

I just want to be sure I'm fully using 500 characters, have the least typo as possible and incluide as much as possible....

It might come tonight, btu I just have HEAVY update on the support stuff to do

 

[Deleted member]

Man I hope they Buff kirby UP! in the next balance update

 

[Diabolical PIe]

More ways for Nintendo to take our money and prevent the metagame from actually developing and stabilizing on its own. Kay.

 

[Seal]

More ways for Nintendo to take our money and prevent the metagame from actually developing and stabilizing on its own. Kay.

Take your money? These aren't required DLCs. More like "More ways for Nintendo to give us reasons for giving them our money"

 

[Artmastercorey]

Smash 4 DLC! Vote for Bomberman! https://cp.nintendo.co.jp/us/

He would be great! I can imagine how fun he'd be plus he's a legend like sonic, mario, megaman.

 

[flying_tortoise]

More ways for Nintendo to take our money and prevent the metagame from actually developing and stabilizing on its own. Kay.

I was actually thinking the same thing. But just keep playing and the meta will develop because of that. Also just be an example to others, that we don't need balance patches to figure out matchups.

Either than that there isn't much else we can do

Edit: I meant the above about the balance patches.
New characters are new characters and it should be a lot of fun messing around with them

 

[CyberHyperPhoenix]

So many feels in that Lucas trailer ;_;

Shoutouts to all the employees who are going to go through the fighter ballot...
I wonder if they will get a pay rise after going through the entire thing

 

[extremechiton]

So far
Krystal, inkling, and yarn kirby are what I want to be added. (Also hoping for wolf's return)
((Bandana dee also a possibility))

 

[Gimj]

Team WAA!

 

[herpyderpherper]

TFW update buffs diddy and gives him his PM up b

 

[ElGoombaswag]

Vote for Goku NOW!!!

 

[Trigspro789]

I can die happy.

 

[Marth2King]

Lankey Kong NEEDS to happen

 

[Enchlore]

That Proto Man costume...

Oh, how I wish I had a credit card...

 

[KyroChao]

And all the ridley fans still voted ridley and wasted the employee's time

Im voting wonder red on my wii u, fawful on my laptop, and wolf on my schools computers

 

[jamzthehedgehog]

Spaltoon!!! Splatoon Characters needs to be in smash 4!! That's who I'd vote for!!!

 

[Espi]

That was a terrible Direct jesus

 

[AnTMaN_76]

I hope that Nintendo doesn't take away links infinite jab combo

 

[IsmaR]

200CC was the best thing announced.

Smash 200CC mode when

 

[lordvaati]

Hey Diddy Kong!

 

[Andromear]

pay respect to all the employes that have/count to read every submission.

Agreed there is going to be hundred of thousands, if not millions of submission and some poor person at Nintendo has to read them all.

 

[Sgt-Sol]

................im worried about

1-Ridley

2- Shrek

3- Goku (Or any anime character)

 

[Andromear]

Best part was the info about the next Fire Emblem game