Sakurai had considered a handheld Super Smash Bros. game in the past

Along with a Wii U version, a version of Super Smash Bros. will be coming out for the 3DS, which will be the first handheld version in the series. Sakurai had considered a version of the game for previous handheld systems in the past, though. According to him, it never happened because the opportunity never came up, and any handheld system before the Game Boy Advance wouldn't have had the capabilities to fully realize Super Smash Bros.

“It’s not that I haven’t wanted to – I thought about it, I did. To be honest, we purely didn’t have the opportunity, it just never came up. And also, to speak freely, if you look at a handheld device preceding anything before the GBA, I don’t know that it would have the capabilities to fully realize Smash Bros.”

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