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Most Anticipated Games of 2014- Super Smash Bros Wii U and 3DS

TechRaptor - Despite Nintendo being viewed as “in trouble” with lowering sales expectations for 2014, but could end up being Nintendo’s year with big software releases; including the next installment in the Super Smash Bros Wii U and 3DS. A joint effort between Project Sora (Masahiro Sakurai) and Namco Bandi, with the commercial success of Smash Bros Brawl on the Wii, this version has a lot to live up to and a lot on the line for Nintendo.

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djplonker3736d ago (Edited 3736d ago )

Go on to any website that you can buy and preorder games from and check the coming soon section!

It shows there is more games coming out for the ps3 than the wii u

(posted before in different article without an explanation or where you can check for yourself)

That is a major problem for Nintendo and they need to speed things up!

OMNlPOTENT3736d ago

quality over quantity. There are probably more games coming out or the ps3 than the ps4 too.

djplonker3736d ago

True but just from the top of my head

ff10
ff10-2
ff13-3
dark souls 2
tales of chronicals
southpark rpg

are coming out between now and the end of march how many wii u game are releasing in this small window?

Activemessiah3736d ago

Speed things up = Bugs and glitches... have we not learned anything from the launch games? Dead Rising 3 13 GB patch... Battlefield 4 etc... Patience dude.

djplonker3736d ago (Edited 3736d ago )

I bought my wiiu in september but only pikmin 3 and wind waker are the only games out that I considered buying somthing is wrong there!

They can take thier time when there is plenty of other things to play.

Ilovetheps53736d ago

djplonker, if you really do have a Wii U, please check out Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate. That is a game with a ton of length to it. I believe I have 150 hours in the game, and I'm just scratching the surface. That one game will hold you for a while.

Activemessiah3736d ago

djponker, there are over 200 games on the Wii U right now, I am pretty sure you could give the others a go.. Deus Ex and Rayman are the definitive versions on there... give those a crack if you haven't until X comes out :D

KonsoruMasuta3736d ago

Now you're just trolling. This has nothing to do with the article and is off topic. I agreed with you the first time you stated this, but you're getting ridiculous and annoying with this. Do something positive with your time.

MRMagoo1233736d ago

Maybe he is just frustrated with the games the WiiU has tho, i dont have a WiiU but i will be getting one some time only because i want to play animal crossing, but the choices arent all that great at the mo. I am probably in the minority here but i really dont get the popularity of smash brothers at all its beyond me how people enjoy it at all.

Like i have said before , the only reason i will just go out and buy a WiiU right now is if they release a WiiU pokemon thats just like the DS versions but WiiUfied, that along with animal crossing would keep me happy for a while.

KonsoruMasuta3736d ago

Even if he is frustrated, his comment is off topic and has nothing to do with the article. He is trolling.

canek3736d ago

super smash bros brawler...let's get it on!!!

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Mortal Kombat hits 80 million sales, here's how it stacks up against competition

NetherRealm confirms its Mortal Kombat franchise has sold over 80 million copies in the last 30 years, and here's how it competes against other fighters.

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Kakashi Hatake331d ago

Don't care what anyone says, Smash isn't a traditional fighting game. May as well call Powerstone and Playstation All Stars fighting games. They're more of an arena fighter /party game.

NotoriousWhiz331d ago

You don't have to care what anyone says. It's not a traditional fighting game. But it is a fighting game.

gerbintosh331d ago

Not according to the creator, Sakurai. Link below

https://www.eventhubs.com/n...

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CrimsonWing69331d ago (Edited 331d ago )

I mean what makes them an arena fighter than say something like Tekken? Because there’s platforms?

NatsuXTheMaxspeed21331d ago

because theres a bunch of pokeballs and other random stupid stuff on stage that you can use at your advantage and flying ultra super power ball that you got to chase on the stage to get your ougi LMAO.

CrimsonWing69331d ago

@NatsuXTheMaxspeed21

I mean what it sounds like is they took a fighting game and “added” unique mechanics to it to me.

When I think arena game I think of things like Spawn: In the Demon’s Hand or Virtual-On.

Smash to me is a fighting game, they have fighting game tournaments for it. It just doesn’t jive with me to call it “not a fighting game” because you have poke-balls and platforms or because it has 4 players at once duking it out.

Power Stone I’d consider a fighting game as well. Hell, if you google what it is everyone calls these games “fighting games”. So yea, they’re fighting games…

Immagaiden331d ago

What’s next, you gonna say Mario Kart isn’t a racing game?

NatsuXTheMaxspeed21331d ago

oh its a racer but its not a realistic one like GT or Forza. only kids check for mario kart and smash .

Immagaiden331d ago

I didn’t say it was realistic. I said racing game. Does Burnout not being realistic make it not a racing game?

What does a demographic have to do with a genre? Do kids playing CoD make it any less an FPS? You see how ridiculous bringing up that subject is?

repsahj331d ago

"Only kids and kids at heart check for mario kart and smash".

-fixed!

FallenAngel1984331d ago (Edited 331d ago )

Nobody said it was a traditional fighter. Everyone acknowledges it as a platform fighter

PSASBR & Power Stone are fighting games, the former being a platform fighter and the latter an arena fighter

gleepot331d ago

You're correct, it isn't traditional. It's a fighting game though.

repsahj331d ago

Because if cute and lovable characters are fighting it's not a fighting game? XD As long there's a versus fighting, it is a fighting game.

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MrNinosan331d ago

Including Smash Bros in a list of fighting games, is like including GTA in Racing games.

NotoriousWhiz331d ago

I hate to break it to you but smash bros has fighting game tournaments so it qualifies.

MrNinosan331d ago

"and here's how it competes against other fighters"

No, Mortal Kombat doesn't compete with games like Smash Bros? It's a different genre for a different audience.

NatsuXTheMaxspeed21331d ago

Anybody can host a tournament in their garage it doesnt mean it qualifies.

NotoriousWhiz331d ago

I'm going to assume you're not part of the FGC. However, I am, and I can tell you that there is a ton of overlap between people who play smash competitively and those who play other fighting games competitively.

Now for casuals, there is a lot less overlap between the two for sure.

PapaBop331d ago

While technically true, Leffen comes to mind, FGC and Smash community have always had a rocky relationship.

Thundercat77331d ago

And yet, If Smash Bros was over 80 million, you wouldn't be complaining. On the contrary, you would be bragging about it.

Immagaiden331d ago

Bad comparison. You do a LOT of things in GTA outside of a car while fighting is what you’re mainly doing in SSB

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Ezio2048331d ago

Given the volume of games released, I would say Tekken has sold the best.

lodossrage331d ago (Edited 331d ago )

Yeah, that's a good point. Most of these games have parts to the franchise outside of traditional fighting games.

Like for example, with Mortal Kombat, do Special Forces, Mythologies: Sub: zero, and the Kollection count?

With Tekken does death by degrees or the tag tournament games count?

With Street Fighter, are we counting all the iterations of 2, 3, and 4? how about the ex series or alpha series?

There are a lot of variables at play here

Ezio2048331d ago

Even after including Tekken Tag, they have less titles compared to all MK and SF games.

CS7331d ago

Yeah, i realized that too. Very interesting.

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Super Smash Bros. prototype revealed in new video

The designer of the original Super Smash Bros. for the Nintendo 64 shows us the prototype that started it all.

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Nintendo will not allow Super Smash Bros. on the Evo 2022

Kim writes: "Super Smash Bros. will not be shown at Evo 2022, this year's biggest fighting game event. The Sony-owned sports organization announced the loss of the platformer in a statement on Twitter today, and seemed to blame the decision on Nintendo, which has historically tried to control how their games appear in the wild."

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ZeekQuattro777d ago

The moment Sony acquired EVO the writing was on the wall. A big loss for EVO.

blackblades777d ago

Sony acquiring them had nothing to do with it. Nintendo fault.

AnotherGamer777d ago

That has nothing to do with Sony though.

ZeekQuattro777d ago

Yeah I'm supposed to believe that Nintendo who has been apart of Evo since 2007 up and leaves after Sony acquires Evo is just a coincidence. Yeah okay.

Michiel1989776d ago

pretty sure Sony would allow them to compete. But nintendo has seen all smash bros tourneys as free advertisment from the community, instead of providing setups/games etc they demand that you play their adds on the tourney and put up posters with their newest game instead of actually supporting the competitive smash scene. They just piggybank off them. Now that Sony runs it they wont get free advertisement over there, thus fuck over their smash community by not allowing having it at EVO.

Brazz776d ago

Also big loss for smash community.

Vengeance1138776d ago

Huge loss for Nintendo, could have been huge PR for Smash and to further the titles reach and to gain even more players but Nintendo is happy to let it slip into nothingness. No new content is coming to Smash so literally all it has left is potential tournaments.

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Knightofelemia777d ago

In away this hurts Nintendo Smash Bros has some dedicated fans. What better way to help build hype and sell more of the game then showcasing it at EVO.

Atom666777d ago

https://www.gamesindustry.b...

They wanted more control, which led to starting up their pro circuit. We'll see if it works out.

EVO's recent troubles probably played a part in the decision, but my bet is that they were planning this for awhile.

-Hermit-777d ago

Because it's Nintendo, they just don't get it. They are so ass backwards. At this point, they deserve to get left behind by everybody else. The only reason why they remain relevant is because they appeal to nostalgia.

Neonridr776d ago

except they are currently the most successful. Left behind, lol. Cute Hermit.

-Hermit-776d ago

@Neonridr

I never said they are left behind, I said they deserve to be. Nintendo hasn't done a single positive thing for gaming for a very long time now.

They are anti consumer, release weak and overpriced hardware and shit out the same games to appeal to nostalgia. They don't put any effort into their "remasters" they go after fans for making fanmade games, they go after emulation when they don't give a damn about their older games.

They charge to play online for the Switch after it was free for a year and are behind every single company when it comes to online infastructure. They make it difficult to back up save games. They lock content behind those crappy Amiibos. They sell cardboard to people because they are too cheap to develop actual good hardware to go alongside their console. They go after people streaming Nintendo games.

I would argue that Nintendo are less consumer friendly than the likes of EA, and that's saying something.

whitbyfox776d ago

They just announced 48 new Mario Kart tracks for free with the expansion pass, that’s a whole new game for free.

You must have missed that one.

luckytrouble776d ago

@whitbyfox

"Included with the expansion pass" is not free. It's part of what you're paying for with your subscription fee. I get people try to call things included in subscriptions free to help rationalize costs involved with this subscription heavy model that has taken over, but the addition of something in a pretty unanimously agreed upon to be an overpriced subscription isn't Nintendo being nice; they're trying to incentivize people to finally see the cost of the expansion pass as a good value. In this case though they already established the cost of permanent ownership, which I'm sure was forced low to not over value the subscription, so you know that pack is actually worth $25. It's not free in any sense of the word, and Nintendo is only trying to do themselves a favor with this move.

whitbyfox776d ago

@luckytrouble

We never knew we were getting the Mario Kart tracks, we thought we were just paying for the N64 Megadrive and Animal Crossing DLC so it’s free to me.

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Neonridr776d ago

Nintendo has their own events and showcases though. They will be fine.

CrimsonWing69776d ago

Nintendo’s a real party pooper, huh?

fsfsxii776d ago

evo about to smell a lot better

OhReginald776d ago

It's not a proper fighting game. Who cares.