More information about the 16 invited participants in the tournament, the identity of the announcers, and how fans of the franchise can view the tournament in person and via webcast, will be communicated shortly.
please be Prog and D1
More information about the 16 invited participants in the tournament, the identity of the announcers, and how fans of the franchise can view the tournament in person and via webcast, will be communicated shortly.
"Here is the game. You can play and try it now and then put on a good show tomorrow".
It's probably gonna be garbage, the game and the tournament. They should really play Melee instead.
I'm assuming this means we'll have all characters announced by then?
I guess it doesn't necessarily mean that, they could keep some characters hidden and restrict the tournament to only the ones they've shown off at that point.
Get the fuck out of here.
Sorry for being a wet douche.
Nintendo is inviting 16 highly skilled Super Smash Bros. players to the NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles to compete in a Super Smash Bros. for Wii U tournament.
Get the fuck out of here.
Last time Best Buy had nearly 400 people in line. And that was for Marios and Wind Waker. (Like 3 played Kong)
For Smash it'll easily be 500.
I'm lining up several hours earlier so I can actually play promptly.
I really hope they release a GCN like controller for Wii U.
Didn't Triforce hint at something like this a few weeks ago?
I think the Melee hype from EVO last year got to him.WOAH!
I wonder what changed Sakurai's stance on competitive fighters to not only include a competitive mode in the new Smash, but also have a tournament for the biggest presentation at E3 to be composed of 16 'highly skilled' players.
This is going to be amazing.
Stop. Just fucking stop right here.
That fucking con artist has nothing to do with these announcements. He's been saying the same fucking thing for three years now and just because Nintendo decides to actually do something this year doesn't mean he knew anything about it.
The less people think he's relevant the sooner he disappears and stops screwing over more young players.
LOL I wonder how many people in this thread bothered to watch the youtube vid. There was hints at more than Smash in there. For example if you can't get to E3 you can play Smash and who knows what else at Best Beuy during E3 week nationwide.
This was a shrude announcement by Nintendo. Hilarious to collaborate with Mega64 after VGX.
Don't botch this Nintendo. Get M2K, Mango, Hungrybox, PP, Armada, and Leffen there and get the top talent from Cali and EC on it (such as people like SFAT, PewPewU, The Moon, DJ Nintendo, etc. etc.)
And the announcers better be prog and D1. On a side note: I truly wonder if this was the thing D1 was... working behind the scenes to show Nintendo the good sides of the community... he polled the community for good articles about the scene and other stuff to send to someone at Nintendo.
And you know what's amazing? Nintendo adopted one of the lingos/terms the scene uses for get togethers to play Smash for hours: Smashfest. That's just awesome.
Assuming you mean the Classic Controller Pro, you do realize that the Pro Controller exists. They could easily just make a wired USB variant of that.If the Wii U was somewhat successful, I could see them doing it, but with its dismal sales it's more likely they'll just fall back on the CPP than invest in another specialized controller.
Pretty sure this is a smash4 tournament, not a melee tournament. So they need n64 and brawl players too.
But those are the most known top players of any Smash game. Melee also has been on the rise, I can't imagine Nintendo wouldn't capitalize on that and focus purely on the players from Melee to plat Smash 4.
We'll see though.
I don't get it: the tournament at E3 will be just for those 16 pro-players? and other people will be watching it live in the Nokia theatre?
WOAH!
I wonder what changed Sakurai's stance on competitive fighters to not only include a competitive mode in the new Smash, but also have a tournament for the biggest presentation at E3 to be composed of 16 'highly skilled' players.
This is going to be amazing.
Hopefully the new Smash Brothers ends up being embraced by fans so that the most popular Smash games on the tournament scene aren't a Gamecube title and hacked Wii game.
Is there a snowball chance in hell they will be releasing Gamecube-like contollers for WiiU? cant imagine doing smash bros without that controller
...so what are the chances 2 of the invitees decide to skip fighting for most of the match, and instead test out mechanics?
Will this be their first time playing the game, a la the Wizard?
Will they be randomly assigned characters, or will they all get to choose Little Mac?
So many questions!
Hopefully the new Smash Brothers ends up being embraced by fans so that the most popular Smash games on the tournament scene aren't a Gamecube title and hacked Wii game.
I'd like to know too as I thought in the past this was tried with some games but all that happened is the competitive players kept knowledge of the exploits they found to themselves to use in tournaments rather than disclose this to the developers.really curious if this game had any playtesting from competitive folks. Don't many fighters do that these days?
Hopefully the new Smash Brothers ends up being embraced by fans so that the most popular Smash games on the tournament scene aren't a Gamecube title and hacked Wii game.
That's up to Sakurai. If a 10 year old game or a hack of game keep stealing the spotlight, than it's up to the dev to show "Why you should be playing this new game." If he answers with no real reason, this is going to keep happening.
really curious if this game had any playtesting from competitive folks. Don't many fighters do that these days?
It hasn't. No competitive players have been asked to playtest the game or help give any feedback at all.