Hit Box Announce Smash Box for Super Smash Bros.

<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">The competitive community in <em>Super Smash Bros&period;<&sol;em> is one of the most passionate and enthusiastic communities that there is &&num;8211&semi; with <em>Melee<&sol;em>&comma; the GameCube installment in the series&comma; being the most popular&period; With the community stemming from the GameCube era of the series&comma; the GameCube controller has been a favourite of fans since release&comma; but this might all be about to change with fighting game peripheral manufacturer Hit Box announcing yesterday that they will be launching a Kickstarter page for their latest project &&num;8211&semi; Smash Box&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">Smash Box is a controller that aims to reinvent the way that people play <em>Super Smash Bros&period;<&sol;em> by taking the familiar button layout of the GameCube controller and converting that over to the somewhat more accessible style of an arcade stick&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">Accompanied by the announcement on Twitter&comma; Hit Box also published a teaser video of the product in use to their YouTube channel&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"500" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">SMASH BOX Kickstarting Soon&excl;&excl;&excl; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;VKwQhA3GUM">https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;VKwQhA3GUM<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Hit Box Arcade &lpar;&commat;hitboxarcade&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;hitboxarcade&sol;status&sol;751077218822926336&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">July 7&comma; 2016<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">The video showcases a number of advanced techniques being performed on the controller&period; With me being a self-proclaimed veteran of the <em>Super Smash Bros&period;<&sol;em> series&comma; I have to say that this peripheral looks absolutely phenomenal and could definitely change the future of how people play the game&comma; potentially bringing fans of more traditional fighting games&comma; such as <em>Street Fighter<&sol;em> and <em>Mortal Kombat<&sol;em>&comma; to become more invested in the series&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">The Smash Box page on the Hit Box website claims that the Smash Box will provide &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;fast&comma; precise&comma; surgical control over your character”&comma; which would allow players to control their character much more accurately than they would with the usual method of using a GameCube controller&period; The Smash Box is to feature &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;56 perfect analog angles” which would able players to perform advanced techniques such as wave dashing and shield dropping&comma; among others&comma; with relative ease&period; The controller also boasts a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;unique ergonomic layout” made up of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;authentic Sanwa Denshi Japanese arcade buttons”&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">There isn’t yet a release date for this controller&comma; but the company aim to launch their Kickstarter for the project soon&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><strong>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;hitboxarcade&period;com&sol;blogs&sol;smash-box">Hit Box Arcade<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;