Welcome to Smashboards, the world's largest Super Smash Brothers community! Over 250,000 Smash Bros. fans from around the world have come to discuss these great games in over 19 million posts!
You are currently viewing our boards as a visitor. Click here to sign up right now and start on your path in the Smash community!
I don't know for sure but if I were to hazard a guess I'd say no.
Mario or a big Nintendo newcomer like Tom Nook or the Squid Sisters or something.
Fair point. Maybe it’s just wishful thinking that they wouldn’t rush out another half finished game after Scarlet and Violet but they have no reason not to after it selling so well. I’m just hoping it’s decent. I love Pokémon but I feel it’s really been failing to live up to its potential since Sun and Moon. My disappointment started with ORAS and their reasoning for not including the Battle Frontier.
I’m Canadian so I’m probably not affected… maybe… I hopeJust go to your local GameStop and slap some Trump “I did that” stickers on everything. Surely that will solve the problem!
Probably something like Waluigi
The fact that gen 10 wasn’t announced on Pokemon day means they’re taking longer
I’m Canadian so I’m probably not affected… maybe… I hope
Same here. The higher prices suck and were completely avoidable but I’m more concerned about human rights than higher prices. I’ve got enough saved up that I can get by for a while. I’ve been looking into getting an EU citizenship through my grandfather’s birth in Portugal but that’s a ton of hassle that I’m not sure I’m equipped for.
Is it sad to say that the price increases are one of my lower concerns? But that might be because my family has been stocking up since the possibility became more clear.
Brawl was revealed when Melee was 4 years old. Smash 4 was revealed when Brawl was 5 years old.
Hasn't been four years since Ultimate's last character addition.
True but I don’t think the DLC takes as many resources as base game development. So while it hasn’t quite been 4 years since the DLC ended, it’s been over 6 years since the game launched. Even if they started shortly after the DLC for Ultimate ended, it’s not quite the same as if they were in full game development the whole time. That’s just a hunch though.
Unfortunately, even if they anounce the game officially with title, gameplay and a few newcomers and veterans in the April direct and the game is stated to be Holiday 2026 release, that's still no guarantee we'll get a Brawl DOJO-style of pre-release. Ultimate did something similar with the Smash Blog (Altrough it was a very rushed and barebones version of the dojo) so there's deffinitely a chance Sakurai decides to do a new DOJO, but i'm personally not getting my hopes up. The dojo updates ran from May 22, 2007 to January 31, 2008, so about 7 months would be enough.
Didn’t Sakurai state that Ultimate did not start development until after the release of Bayonetta, the last SSB4 DLC?
I wasn’t suggesting otherwise. I was just saying Smash 6 could have started shortly after Ultimate’s DLC finished, which would still line up with his project plan. The two years of working on just the DLC for Ultimate could have served as a break from full game development even if he started the next project shortly after.
I mean Smash 4 started dev in 2012 and released in 2014, which was 2 years, Ult also was in a similar timeframe starting in 2016 and ending in 2018.
I don’t think it will be a launch title. The earliest I see it is holiday 2025. I think they need enough time to build prerelease hype.
Which means this next game probably had so much development time that triumphing Ultimate's content would be possible.
Well even if Sakurai’s current project is smash I don’t think it’ll be making the launch window
Yeah, I don’t think we’re going to drastically scale back the roster. Especially when that was such a huge part of Ultimate’s success. I could see them cutting a few of the more minor characters so they have more time to work on more exciting newcomers for the base game but I’m not predicting a much smaller starting roster size than Ultimate’s.
Yeah, some people say "oh, smash should go back to like a Brawl-era sized roster as a reboot of the series in order to refresh all the remaining veterans' movesets" and while I don't deny that Samus, DK, Mario, etc.'s movesets could use a rework / update to bring them to the standards of newer characters, part of Smash's draw is the massive cast of characters / content from a wide variety of different series. Cutting that aspect down substantially would limit such a draw for a large amount of people.
There's no way in my mind Smash releases this year. Even if it does get revealed at the Switch 2 Direct, if it releases in December like Ultimate did, that's a month less for marketing than even Ultimate got and Ultimate revealed 65/69 of its base game roster in ONE trailer.
Yup, what I’ve been hearing from a lot of people is:
Do both. Bring out the big hitters ASAP. Then let them be nicely spread out via DLC.
Frankly, its kind of ludicrous that having more than one big game at launch would be considered a stretch.
That might have been the case...before tariffs.
I want it and think it's a possibility.
A lot of it depends on who they keep and who the newcomers are. I care more about being able to play characters I enjoy more than the actual roster size. It’s just that a larger size means a higher chance of keeping my favorites and getting newcomers I’d be excited for.
I agree with this sentiment... my main is Lucina... and she's quite likely to get cut if the roster size decreases significantly haha.
Graphics. You get to get excited for graphics. Welcome to 2020s AAA gaming. Now that Nintendo has a console that isn’t as outdated, they’re stuck with the long dev time + massive budget woes plaguing everyone else.
No, I think that’s a reasonable argument and you very well could be right. My logic is that Smash has always released within the first two years of a console’s life and releasing early gives them more a chance to further extend its life through DLC. I do think there’s a solid case to be made for either side and no one really knows anything yet. Hopefully we’ll find out in April.
Once again, it's a larger amount of newcomers that makes it more likely we'll get abnormal choices. Did you forget that Jigglypuff and Ness didn't have to wait until Bowser and Mewtwo and Wario and a whole lot of other choices westerns would approve of more to get in?
And even if they had started development just a year / year and a half ago or whatnot, they could still put out a quick "hey the next smash game is in development" in April or so even if no other details were provided.
I’m sorry but I just don’t follow that logic. More characters means more chances of seeing one you care about.
With the released in first two years thing, I think that would depend on when it releases, because I don't expect the Switch 2's first year to start until like halfway through the year or later, and that's just based on the Switch's reveal-to-release pipeline (January to March).
But they had to play it safe all throughout Ultimate because they were only adding a small amount of newcomers in the base, FP1, and FP2. It'd be the same thing again if they are still only adding 5-6 unique newcomers.
True but my argument is that it wouldn’t come out in 2027 in that scenario. If Sakurai’s project isn’t Smash and finishes development this year, they likely wouldn’t start Smash 6 until then. If Smash 6 development starts this year or next, we’re looking at something closer to a 2029-2030 release date if we want to give them enough time to fully develop the game.
And that might run a little too close to the Switch 3's release, meaning that Smash might even skip the Switch 2 altogether, and I can't see them doing that.
I don't think it's all that likely. Brawl, Smash Wii U, and Ultimate released in the second mostly-full year of their consoles life, I think Smash 6 will probably fit that pattern and release in 2026.
I mean yes, but that's why I think the 2021/2022 project is a smaller side project and Smash started development last year after Namco's Nintendo support studio finished hiring and the Spirit Events finished up. The Spirit Events ended in March last year, so it would depend on the hiring but I've heard they finished hiring in like June? So development would've started around mid-2024 if this scenario I'm talking about is correct.
