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You Can Expect A Super Smash Bros. Game For Nintendo Switch

"We know that the fans love these games, love this content, so stay tuned."

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During an interview today, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime strongly suggested that a Super Smash Bros. game will come to the Nintendo Switch.

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"Smash is obviously one of our best-selling franchises," he told Katie Linendoll during a Facebook livestream (via GoNintendo). "What we say is that the philosophy that Nintendo has from a development standpoint is that for every platform, we want to have at least one [each] of our classic franchises.

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"There's gonna be one great Super Mario experience, there's gonna be great Zelda experience, so you can expect, you can anticipate at some point in the future, who knows when, that all of our franchises will be addressed. We know that the fans love these games, love this content, so stay tuned."

As Fils-Aime said, Smash Bros. is one of Nintendo's biggest, best-known, and best-selling franchise, so it would be more surprisingly if a game in the series did not come to Switch.

The latest game, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS, sold more than 5 million copies on Wii U and more than 8.5 million units for 3DS.

The Switch already has a new Zelda game, Breath of the Wild, while Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Super Mario Odyssey are coming later this year.

Here are some other takeaways from the Fils-Aime interview:

  • Netflix and other streaming apps are coming to Switch in "due time."
  • Could Switch get a WWE 2K game? "We'll see what happens," Fils-Aime said.
  • Will there be a cloud saves for Switch? "Wouldn't that be wonderful--nothing to announce today," Fils-Aime said.
  • The Switch launch has no impact on 3DS launch; Nintendo is still committed.
  • He's seen five-day Switch sales figures and it's still the fastest-selling Nintendo system ever.
  • Nintendo isn't making anything for VR/AR yet because it's still a relatively niche market. Nintendo might get involved if it thinks it could be appealing to a wider audience.

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Keeping fingers crossed for F-Zero and Metroid Prime.

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gamers love an incomplete console at launch.

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@hotwog21: They are just sheep looking for whatever food left to them by nintendo...

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Nintendo's too desperate about the switch's failure that they want to add this sorry excuse for a fighting game that so many nintendrones bought to the switch instead of just quitting. *facepalm*

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@computernoises: The videos speak for themselves. It's a reject excuse for a fighting game or not even a fighting game at all.

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Have I simply gotten seriously old, or has the amount of forum complaining reached a new record?

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Stay tuned for the port of Super Smash Brothers WiiU/3DS!

Sweeeet

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@frank_castle: exactly

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Shit. Assuming this isn't a rerelease of Smash 4, I'll most likely be getting a Switch now.

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https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/633202-super-smash-bros-for-wii-u/75050196

Smash at E3 2017 poll

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I certainly hope so. Smash Bros. is what made me break down and get a WiiU.

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IMAGINE being able to play hundreds of classic NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube and Gameboy games all off your Nintendo Switch for a inexpensive monthly subscription like Netflix or Spotify!

Sign the petition make our voices heard before Nintendo messes up!Petition link takes less than a minute to sign!

https://www.change.org/.../nintendo-nintendo-switch...

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How about a fully 3D open world Pokemon game? Preferably where you don't get stopped every 3 seconds by a wild Pokemon encounter.

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In other news "reports say water is wet"

Honestly did we not think that Nintendo would release smash on switch?

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3D Metroid game please. The one on the gamecube was awesome.

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This is all well and good...but not being able to purchase the Switch is a bit annoying. Not going to pay $500 for a $300 machine - nothing left to do but wait.

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I hope it's a new, improved follow up and NOT a port to the disappointing fourth game. And hopefully with a new director, because if Sakurai had the gall to compare himself to George freaking Lucas, then Smash needs it's JJ Abrams (Force Awakens) and/or Gareth Edwards (Rogue One), pronto.

And have better Smash guest stars than freaking Cloud.

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@nintendoboy16: Well, Cloud won the fan vote, so they didn't have much control over that. Also, you have to be the first person I've seen say that they didn't like Smash 4, though going by your screenname I get the sense that you're likely a troll.

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@PyreofKoL: I voted for King K. Rool and they couldn't even give me that.

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@PyreofKoL: Just because I find it disappointing, doesn't mean I don't like it. I just don't think it's that great compared to the previous games in the series. Brawl had more content to go back to. I even found myself playing Tekken Tag 2 on the same console more.

And Cloud wasn't the result of the fan vote. Bayonetta was.

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@nintendoboy16: Wait, really? I thought that was just a smart PR move since Bayonetta 2 absolutely blew up for them. I figured fan vote was the only way Cloud would have gotten in. And I thought the challenges were more numerous and interesting in Smash 4, though I will say that the story mode in Brawl was great up until that maze stage. That bit dragged on far too long. Also, props for Tekken Tag 2. I love that game and can't wait for 7!

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@nintendoboy16: Either way SSB is an awful game, on high level people simply spam the same stuff over and over, SF and Tekken have more depth.

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@alien-ouy: Can't call it Street Fighter with no Blanka

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@petey_olivarez: Fair enough ! =D

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Calling it now.. smash bros switch!! and the switch part is that you can tag in a partner

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@westsiderz28: MvC style with combos and all, could be amazing!

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Just hope it's not another wiiu ripoff

Like mariokart delux

If your going to do a new smash then do a NEW smash don't rehash the smash

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Edited By amaneuvering

Yeah, Reggie. . . . So where the hell have the likes of a proper Punch-Out!!, Metroid, F-Zero, Animal Crossing, Advance Wars, and even Mother 3 been hiding for at least a generation now?

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@amaneuvering: Super Punch Out on Wii. Animal Crossing new Leaf on 3DS.

Advance Wars, f-zero, metroid and Earthbound are not big franchises, not sales wise.

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Well Reggie we love Metroid and we haven't seen one in decade at least a decent one that is. Metroid: Zero Mission was the last great Metroid game and that was way back in 2004. I was never a fan of the Metroid Prime series. Reggie and Nintendo please Give us a Metroid game, with been waiting for one for a long time. Thank god that at least some one else other than Nintendo care about the franchise more than them and gave us the remake of the old Metroid 2 for the game boy with their release of AM2R, it almost brought tears how good this Metroid game is and it wasn't even done by Nintendo.

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@angrycreep: People love Metroid Prime, so complaining there hasn't been a Metroid game since 2004 is going to fall on deaf ears.

They tried Other M and it flopped...

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@grimakis: You can't compare the great 2D Metroid's with the prime series and Most people will take anyway a true 2D Metroid over any prime game of the series any day. Plus just overall most people if you ask them, they would rather see a new 2D Metroid than a Prime Metroid. no matter how you or anyone put it we haven't seen a good Metroid game since 2004 or 2007 if you are a fan of the prime series and regardless its been at least 10 years since the last good Metroid game. Is going in deaf ears because they don't give a damn and its been at least 10 years since the last time that they really put together a good team to do a good Metroid game.

Metroid Prime: Federation Force and Metroid: Other M were both awful and not even close to be near the quality of the good Metroid games of the past.

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@grimakis: see... hat wasnt nintendosmfault, it was team ninja. Because metroid doesnt need a falsely emptional protagonist. Our hero is a female badass who is a bouny hunter, thats all the emotion we need. We do not need anime plot into our favorite heros backstory.. eugh. So they can make another lone, so long as they dont make a backstory. In fact, there are ALOT of planets e could play on.

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Need Metroid.

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Considering the functionality of the Joy Con's, I'm expecting more entries in the Mario Sports series very soon as well.

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@FallenOneX: More games like mario strikers charged and less games like mario tennis on wii u.

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Id rather they do a Wii u port first and include all the 3ds stages, I still didn't get to play the single player modes that much. There was a 6 year gap between brawl and the Wii u one so id rather not wait a couple more years for a new one.

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Of course they're going to make a Smash Bros game for Nintendo Switch. Anyone who thinks this is going to be a port of Wii U Smash is clueless

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@LoveBird-: ehh I still don't understand why no amiibo for bayonetta cloud or corrin. I think they will release the Wii u port and haven't announced it yet so not to seem like a port machine

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@ballashotcaller: they might actually maake it a port with a new character or two, on tp of the 3ds stages. They did it with Marvel v Capcom and now theyre in the process of making Marvel infinite.

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@LoveBird-: They may do both. They are actually doing it with Mario Kart now. I think it's obvious they must be working on a Mario Kart 9

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@el_marto2003: Mario Kart franchise competing with the fast and the furious franchise. Who will get to ten first?

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@el_marto2003: I agree, we probably will see a port of the Wii U game, and a proper sequel(depending on whether or not the Switch is a long term success).

Same w/ Mario Kart. You'll see 8 Deluxe, and no doubt a MK9 before the system is done.

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They've sold more copies of Smash Bros than Wii Us so they better make another Smash. Matter of fact, I want a sequel to Melee and I want it made by the Project M team.

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Bayonetta 3 and Metroid or pre-order cancelled.

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