lordsathien wrote:

Given how well the Smash series has sold, I'm thinking that Nintendo's positioning of the Wii U release in Winter will incentivize people enough to buy it, possibly as a holiday bundle. I imagine that there's going to be something beyond the Smash Race mode for the Wii U version, to say nothing of the different stages and more than 2 music tracks per stage.

The best explanation I could come up with is that the Wii U version is ostensibly the one that will matter more, so they can harvest play data from 3DS version to better balance the characters once it gets actually competitive.

Also, here's like a thousand Wii U screenshots that were released the same day. And at least 100 3DS screenshots.

There's 29 known characters so far and Brawl had 39. There's room for around 10 more if the roster is not supposed to be the biggest.

Ness is in for sure due to the Franklin Badge in a few screenshots. I'm willing to bet Captain Falcon is too, and possibly Meta Knight if he isn't snubbed the way Mewtwo was for Brawl.

The 3DS is pretty capable, though. They did boast about how large the maximum cartridge capacity was for 3DS game cards when the system was first announced (current maximum size is 4 GB, theoretical maximum 8 GB or possibly even more, and you'd be surprised at how much they can fit in those sizes), so they could very well surprise in terms of roster size even with only a few months to go before release.

Also, if Nintendo has been paying any attention at all to the Smash community the last 6 years, they'd do well to steal all of Project M's best ideas, and it looks like they are. The custom move feature is basically PSA (the program/hack that changes move properties for mods), and every stage has a featureless form similar to Project M's edits. Regardless of what you think of Project M or its players, they are making genuine effort into actually adding to the game, and I could very easily see Nintendo taking cues from popular mods without necessarily giving them credit, kinda like how Left 4 Dead 2 took a bunch of server mods for the first game and turned them into real features.

And I don't know why I care, but I'm fearful for what the Smash Bros. Miiverse communities will be like once the games are out. Surely, tons of day 1 bans will be in order. I'm willing to bet lewd stuff will reach record highs before long and it will be impossible to moderate it all.

[Edit]200 new pictures.

It will be broken if it's not as extensive as I hope it is. They haven't talked about it at all yet, which worries me a little. I want to be able to make the characters as severely broken and unfair as possible and try to see who can be the most cheap in a four-player match.

Also, the video showed Mario's fireball with two sets of vastly different properties, so just maybe Dr. Mario can make a return of sorts.

I presume they'll be sold next to them. I also presume the PDP partnership is for them to manufacture new controllers, which would mean Nintendo is either unwilling or unable to do it themselves anymore.

Which one? There's like a dozen lawsuits against Nintendo going on at any given time, and if they can't manufacture it, then I would think they wouldn't be able to license its design either.