Japanese screenshot confirms it.

[Darkurai]

Even outside of Wi-Fi, our names can be up to five letters.
Until now, it was unclear whether or not our names could be four letters or five letters outside of Wi-Fi, since in the Tourny Mode update, all the names were a maximum of four letters.
But now it's become clear.

 

[Dr. UnKnown]

errrr, yay

 

[Sariku]

Or he just likes the Japanese more and let's them have five letters and not us.

You have to put everything into consideration you know

 

[Life Ruiner]

I call RuinR

And it's weird that they only put it on the japenese site...though there have been differences in site updates before.

 

[Dr. UnKnown]

Pisutachio?

 

[motherfan]

Or he just likes the Japanese more and let's them have five letters and not us.

You have to put everything into consideration you know

Um...he IS Japanese you know...

 

[Darkurai]

Or he just likes the Japanese more and let's them have five letters and not us.

You have to put everything into consideration you know

Well, it's not as obvious on the english site, since only three spaces are used, but you can see in the english screenshot that there is enough room for a fifth letter.

@Motherfan: If you're referring to me when you say "He is Japanese", then no I'm not. I live in New Jersey.

 

[HeroXL]

Thats actually great news, I was wondering about how that was going to work. 4 letters is really not alot, especially considering theres going to be an entire wifi community..imagine how many times your going to find someone with the same name, well I guess that applies to the 5 letter limit as well but to a lesser degree.

 

[Youko]

I believe the proper phrase is five CHARACTERS.

 

[Darkurai]

I believe the proper phrase is five CHARACTERS.

Po-tay-to, po-tah-to.

 

[Rodriguezjr]

That won't be a problem for me since I am going with Rodjr on Brawl.

 

[wWw Dazwa]

The real question is:

Will the Box Tag be making its triumphant return?

 

[Xsyven]

Great. Now I'll be going as Xsyve.

 

[wWw Dazwa]

Really, not "Xsyvn"?

 

[El_Bardo]

this is a great notice for me :D, finally ill be able to put "Bardo" and not "Bard" -_-" xD

 

[Banana_Dragon]

I'll probably be going with "Beast" in the case of five letters *wide grin*
Or "MadNX" based on my gamertag (Madnexx)

Minor detail really, but I like the extra letter/character/symbol/alphanumerical sign nontheless.

 

[Blue sHell]

Nice find, I'm actually pretty happy about this discovery. I didn't know what the hell I'd put but now I'll definitely be going as sHell.

 

[Bajef8]

Bajef will finally fit now! yesssss. and good find.

 

[SonicLuigi]

finally 5 characters instead of 4..i hope this is true, cuz i cant think of any good 4 letter names on melee (current one : PWND) i know it sucks, but its all i got...

 

[Pluvia's other account]

EDIT:

Aww, I misread.

 

[Fluff]

i dunno.. it kinda looks like just 4 letters will fit in the box, but maybe 5.. guess we'll find out next year!
my names only 3 letters either way

 

[Zek]

no problems here

 

[shadowed_phoenix]

I use 'Pie' as my name anyway but still an interesting development

 

[Steeler]

I'm pretty sure your name won't be "taken"...unless I'm mistaken, it didn't work like that in MKDS.

 

[Ophelius]

I wanted eight characters...

 

[Eaode]

Ahh, sweet relief. No more Eao.

 

[Al Calnos]

Meh, I'll probably still use "Al". Very original, I know

 

[InvincibleAgent]

IA doesn't really benefit from this

 

[user_name]

My primary handle is 8bit, so this dosent effect me much, but still cool.

 

[WarioII]

very cool there are now alot of possibilites for usernames since u can have 4 and 5 characters

 

[Pyroloserkid]

Or he just likes the Japanese more and let's them have five letters and not us.

You have to put everything into consideration you know

We get 5 letters too.

I call RuinR

And it's weird that they only put it on the japenese site...though there have been differences in site updates before.

Eww Stephen go away.

Well, it's not as obvious on the english site, since only three spaces are used, but you can see in the english screenshot that there is enough room for a fifth letter.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw this. There is clearly 2 more spaces.

My primary handle is 8bit, so this dosent effect me much, but still cool.

Wtfz I use 8bit too.

 

[T-major]

T-major - (T-) = major
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[user_name]

Wtfz I use 8bit too.

haha... wait, seriously? That's a little freaky...

 

[Lgndknight]

my name won't work. LGND was fine, but LNGDK doesn't sound good. looks like Ling DK

 

[Lexl5]

nice find, i guess.
im not too excited about this, for some reason.

 

[TheKruskinator]

Po-tay-to, po-tah-to.

Cook 'em, mash 'em, put 'em in a stew?

 

[super-7]

good find now i can finally enter my entire first name

 

[Endless Nightmares]

56K...I guess I can surround it with the characters of my choice lol

=56K=

$56K$

~56K~

the possibilities are endless

I can also use "Samus" and longer Katakana tags now ^_^

 

[SubparSmashBrother]

My first name fits now!

I can also use names like "Mario", "Peach', Kirby", "Marth" "MrG&W", "Koopa", "Jiggs", "Luigi" etc.

 

[kinghippo99]

Flashes the Panda signal... I think that it is five letters but we can't be certain until brawl is out, or we can call Panda man to translate