Smash Bros 3DS Was a Must To Evolve The Series

<p>Speaking to Puissance Nintendo&comma; Masahiro Sakurai has said that the inclusion of a 3DS version of Super Smash Bros was necessary to evolve the series&period; We&&num;8217&semi;ve known for quite a while now that the game has been in the works and this years E3 has already excited gamers by promising the inclusion of the villager from Animal Crossing&comma; trainer from Wii Fit and &lpar;of course&rpar; Mega Man&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sakurai said&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>&&num;8220&semi;While the development of Kid Icarus&colon; Uprising was at its end&comma; Satoru Iwata came me propose to develop the new Smash Bros game&comma; and asked me if it should be on 3DS or Wii U&period; We arrived at a point where the series could not evolve&comma; and we wondered if the handheld console was the solution&period; In the past&comma; we have increased the number of characters and arenas&comma; but this was not enough&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After this Masahiro Sakurai continued to delve deeper into the development process of the games&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>&&num;8220&semi;At that time&comma; we could have chosen to develop a 3DS version only&comma; but we realised the presence of several limitations&period; I am referring to the fact of playing a game like Super Smash Bros on a small screen&period; Thus&comma; even if it is not easy to develop two versions simultaneously&comma; we chose to adapt the game experience to the specifications of each platform&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In addition&comma; Masahiro Sakurai repeated his promise to essentially not rip gamers off&comma; forcing them to buy both versions of the game to get a specific character&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>&&num;8220&semi;Even though the characters will be the same in the version Wii U and Nintendo 3DS&comma; the arena will be completely different&period; In the 3DS version&comma; they are based on games released on portable consoles&comma; while Wii U&comma; arenas are based on articles on home console games&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With this in mind will you be buying both versions anyway&quest; Let us know your thoughts over at our Facebook page&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;p-nintendo&period;com&sol;articles&sol;interviews&sol;masahiro-sakurai-nous-parle-de-ssbb-235210">Puissance Nintendo<&sol;a> via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;officialnintendomagazine&period;co&period;uk&sol;51563&sol;smash-bros-3ds-necessary-to-evolve-the-series&sol;">Official Nintendo Magazine UK<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"zemanta-pixie" style&equals;"margin-top&colon; 10px&semi; height&colon; 15px&semi;"><img class&equals;"zemanta-pixie-img" style&equals;"border&colon; none&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;img&period;zemanta&period;com&sol;pixy&period;gif&quest;x-id&equals;faa49ca0-b707-4bbf-8f7b-2adf857dced6" alt&equals;"" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;