Switch: Next Smash Bros. could have serious changes!

Over the years and decades, large series of games go through again and again changes and innovations – sometimes more, sometimes less big. Just think of the 90s, when with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time or Super Mario 64, about two of the largest game brands in the world dared to make the fundamentally new leap into polygonal 3D graphics. The real thing often changes Gameplay within a game series, to a complete change of genre. Even with the extremely popular Nintendo brawl game Super Smash Bros. could face such a major change as the series creator and Nintendo veteran Masahiro Sakurai revealed himself.

Super Smash Bros. sells millions

With Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Nintendo released the sixth part of the popular fighting game series released, which originated on the legendary Nintendo 64 in the late ’90s. For the switches (buy now €333.00 ) Nintendo has not yet released the classic, but many other N64 retro hits. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has meanwhile become one of the most successful Switch games since its release and has sold tens of millions.

Series creator hints at drastic change

Fundamental changes to the gameplay has never existed in the last 25 years since the first part for the Nintendo 64 – but that could change now. Apparently it is no longer enough for series creator Masahiro Sakurai to add new fighters, stages and modes to the Nintendo game with each new release. Instead, a whole fundamental gameplay element a drastic change learn how the Japanese developer legend in one new video on his YouTube channel “Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games” revealed.

Changing a core gameplay element?

It’s about them jump mechanic in Super Smash Bros. This is elementary for the game, after all the main goal is to throw opponents off the platform. With multiple jumps and attack jumps, players save themselves as far as possible back to the safe ground of the stage.