Sakurai: Super Smash Bros. 3DS was necessary to evolve the series

by **Lugia2453** Wed Jun 26, 2013 1:43 pm

According to Sakurai, the upcoming 3DS Super Smash Bros. game was necessary to evolve the series. He says it was a starting point for the next games, and that adding a handheld game would be enough to differentiate it from Melee and Brawl.

“While the development of Kid Icarus: Uprising was at its end, Satoru Iwata came me propose to develop the new Smash Bros game, and asked me if it should be on 3DS or Wii U. We arrived at a point where the series could not evolve, and we wondered if the handheld console was the solution. In the past, we have increased the number of characters and arenas, but this was not enough.”

“At that time, we could have chosen to develop a 3DS version only, but we realised the presence of several limitations. I am referring to the fact of playing a game like Super Smash Bros on a small screen. Thus, even if it is not easy to develop two versions simultaneously, we chose to adapt the game experience to the specifications of each platform.”

“Even though the characters will be the same in the version Wii U and Nintendo 3DS, the arena will be completely different. In the 3DS version, they are based on games released on portable consoles, while Wii U, arenas are based on articles on home console games.”

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