Nintendo on Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: It's not a port

[smileyhead]

Were you debating if Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was a port of the Wii U version or not? Either way, in a conversation with USGamer, Treehouse localisation manager Nate Bihldorff just confirmed that Ultimate is, in fact, a brand new game.

It's definitely not an update. It's a brand new game built from the ground up. As far as it being a 'sequel,' I don't really think of Smash Bros. games as being sequels, they're just new Smash Bros. games. Everything has been built brand new. Of course you see returning characters and returning movesets, but that's sort of the nature of a fighting game. You obviously want to bring in new players, but you have to satisfy core players. If I'm playing Mario and I don't have a good Up and B, I'm going to be writing my local congressman to get it changed. It's a tough balance, but yeah, it's a brand new game.

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[Deleted member 420418]

That's great that it is not a port.

 

[the_randomizer]

Now, whether people will believe this, or call it BS is another matter.

 

[GameSystem]

Definitive way to tell is to wait for the game to release and have someone datamine it. Then compare the assets to the WiiU version.

 

[smileyhead]

Definitive way to tell is to wait for the game to release and have someone datamine it. Then compare the assets to the WiiU version.

Chary played it and she could tell if felt different, too.

 

[StarTrekVoyager]

Different artstyle
Superior graphics
Different models
Different moves
Distinct gameplay
Different rendering engine
The "It's a port" people are the flat-earthers of Smash Bros.

 

[KingAsix]

I'd like to think they used the 3DS/WiiU version as a guide

 

[SonowRaevius]

Inb4 "B-but of course they say that because they want it to be a commercial success and you guys are all morons/cucks/etc. for believing them"