Nintendo has always treated Super Smash Bros. as a party game rather than the platform fighting game it truly is.

Introduced in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, assist trophies summon characters from all walks of gaming. In Super Smash Bros.

characters in terms of gameplay and importance ... most requested character during Nintendo's fan ballot for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. You can see him shaking hands with Mario in his trailer ...

That said, four years separated the releases of 2014’s Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U and 2018’s Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. And this was when video games, generally speaking ...

For example, Sakurai has literally spent the last several years, including almost the entire Switch’s lifetime, working on Super Smash Bros titles. He did the Wii U and Switch developments back ...