Will Smash Bros. be Released on the Same Day Worldwide?

[Autumn ♫]

So, will Smash Bros. 3DS (and later Wii U) be released on the same day worldwide, like Pokemon X and Y, or will we have a delay between regions like Brawl was?

 

[Zebkeet]

I hope so. Everyone would be,

 

[FlynnCL]

Europe certainly bloody hope so.

From the Japanese launch date, it took over 300 days for Smash 64, over 180 days for Melee and over 140 days for Brawl to get over here.

 

[Superyoshiom]

It better be, or else the leaks will spread and I'll no everything about the game before I get it in my hands.

 

[ChikoLad]

They'd be incredibly silly not to release it internationally.

 

[Ryan.]

I hope so as well. I can't wait for that day. :D

 

[Autumn ♫]

What I've been thinking is that Nintendo will release all the bigger games on the same day, as they did it with Pokemon X and Y and I believe they're doing it with Mario Kart 8 as well, so hopefully this means well for SSB4.

 

[PLATINUM7]

If they can do it with Pokemon I see no reason why they can't do it with Smash.

 

[AquaDork1]

The Western release will probably be the day after the Japan release.

 

[Homelessvagrant]

I don't see it happening (at least with the 3DS) unless Sakurai and team can finish the game sometime next month. Still I would imagine it would be considered something of a priority otherwise. The reason for Pokemon's uniform release was to help keep the game covert worldwide until release date (that and to help convey it's theme of unity through diversity). While Smash doesn't have the latter, it certainly sounds like Sakurai values the former (based on his previous comment on SSE cutscenes).

Again still, I don't see it happening. I would predict that the release dates will be closer together than they have been in the past (though in the case of most PAL regions they'd likely get gipped once again). It's not something I'd like to see happen but it is probably the reality in this scenario. I'm saying this mostly due to the prefix in which Sakurai has been speaking in his daily comments. The way he talks makes it sound like is that they are still working on development of the games. Typically translation work is done after the initial game is created to keep dialog between both versions as consistent as possible (seeing as text is subject to change in development). Now it is possible to share translation work during development but this makes the process more chaotic (which would be a nightmare considering the team has to work between two version of the game already)

I would love to see uniform release dates for all countries though.

 

[soviet prince]

I thought this was already confirmed in the direct ?

 

[PLATINUM7]

I thought this was already confirmed in the direct ?

No it wasn't.