Topic: Smash Bros Update Confirms Fighter Release Dates, Stage DLC

[Shaymin]

Lucas gets upstaged on his release date. Typical.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/40434/smash-bros-update-confirms-fighter-release-dates-stage-dlc

The Smash Bros live stream happened today (June 14), and if you missed any of it, we've got the full recap for you.

Here Comes the New Challengers!

The update spent some time going over Lucas, detailing his availability right now. But the big deals were the announcement of returning champion Roy and newcomer Ryu who were previously found in the game data.

Roy and Ryu will be available today, and while Roy will be available for the traditional price of $3.99 / £3.59 / €3.99 for one version and $4.99 / £4.49 / €4.99 for both, Ryu will come with a stage and retail for $5.99 / £5.39 / €5.99 for one version / $6.99 / £6.29 / €6.99 for both.

Roy is stronger than his Melee counterpart, but retains the ability to do more damage with his sword's base. The Final Smash is the Critical Hit from the Fire Emblem series.

Ryu will join the fight in the style of Street Fighter II, and his six button combat will be recreated based on how long you hold down the attack buttons. Special moves such as the Hadoken will allow for tradtional Street Fighter commands, which will be more powerful - the Shoryuken can potentially one-hit KO if executed properly. Ryu will have two Final Smashes, a Shinku Hadoken normally, and a Shin Shoryuken if right next to an opponent.

Stages

Dream Land 64 has been brought back as a stage, at a cost of $1.99 / £1.79 / €1.99 for each version or $2.99 / £2.69 / €2.99 for both. Smash 64's Hyrule Castle and Peach's Castle stages will be coming at a later date.

The Miiverse stage will be fueled by posts cheering on each character from their own Miiverse community, and will be available for free.

Ryu's Suzaku Castle stage will come to the game as well. The right side is more stable, while there are shorter platforms on the left side. The Wii U version will feature remixes of Ryu and Ken's themes

Tourney Mode And More

The tournament mode will release in August, and will include timed community tournaments and single elimination modes.

Uploading replays to YouTube, in the style of Mario Kart TV, will also be coming in a future update and will prevent replays from being lost after game updates. (The Nintendo World Report Smash tournament committee has taken note of this development.)

Mii Fighter Costumes

Wave 2 of the Smash Mii costumes includes Mega Man Battle Network/X costumes (MegaMan.Exe and Zero), Isabelle from Animal Crossing as a gunner, the Splatoon Inkling Boy / Girl, a Squid Hat, Jacky and Akira from the Virtua Fighter series and Heihachi from Tekken. Splatoon trophies have also been added to the game.

All costumes will be $0.75 / £0.69 / €0.79 for one version or $1.15 / £1.09 / €1.19 starting today.

UPDATE: North America and Europe have a bundle for all content announced today (three fighters, two stages, all of the Mii outfits). A single version's pack will cost US$21.96 / C$27.88 / £19.88 / €22,28, while you can get both versions together for US$29.16 / C$37.08 / £26.68 / €29,48.

Mii Amiibo Announced: Wave 6 Confirmed

ROB, Duck Hunt, Game and Watch, Falco and the Mii Fighters will release in September for North America along with Ganon, Zero Suit Samus, Dr. Mario, and Olimar. Eventually, all Smash Bros characters will have Amiibo including the DLC characters.

The ROB Amiibo for North America / Europe will be different than the one for Japan; the NA/EU one will be modeled in NES colors while Japan's will be modeled in Famicom colors. All versions of the Game and Watch Amiibo will come with different numbers to replicate his attacks.

If you missed it, the video is available here:

[TOPHATANT123]

Can anyone confirm how stages work? Sounds as if they are offline only which would be a huge missed opportunity.

[nickmitch]

All stages are currently offline only because the servers are down.

[Evan_B]

I'll say it once, and say it again- the best announcement of this video was that stellar Game as Watch Amiibo!

[Webmalfunction]

I am willing to pay irresponsible amounts of money for that dog.

[Triforce Hermit]

Game and Watch, R.O.B, and Zero Suit Samus. I really hate amiibo (and my lack of self-control).

[Soren]

Oh my god now I want that Mr. Game and Watch amiibo.

[Enner]

Microtransaction avalanche in full! I guess we should've saw it coming?


I hope the online multiplayer access to the premium stages aren't messed up.

[Stratos]

Any word of a DLC bundle or "season pass" for all of the DLC. I always preferred to buy it all in one go rather than piecemeal.


September will be a painful amiibo month what with wave 5b and 6 releasing.

[Shaymin]

All of today's stuff can be bought at once, but it's not going to extend to further updates.

[Wah]

I GOT RYU RIGHT!!!

[Wah]

I GOT RYU RIGHT!!!

HELL YEAH!

[nickmitch]

Do games to DLC season passes even when there's no announcement about how much DLC there will be?  I'm thinking that's why there isn't one here.  That or Nintendo isn't really sure how much there'll be.

[Nemo]

2 Characters, 2 stages and some skins are $30? That just doesn't seem to be worth half the price of the entire game.

[Soren]

2 Characters, 2 stages and some skins are $30? That just doesn't seem to be worth half the price of the entire game.

The 3 characters and 2 stages will run you $15. There's no need to spend the rest on outfits...

[broodwars]

2 Characters, 2 stages and some skins are $30? That just doesn't seem to be worth half the price of the entire game.

The 3 characters and 2 stages will run you $15. There's no need to spend the rest on outfits...

I paid about $12-$13 IIRC. It's not bad, though it's a good thing the Miiverse stage is free since it's pretty worthless.

[Adrock]

I paid $20 because I got the three characters and Dreamland 64 for both Wii U and 3DS. I just want to be prepared.

The Miiverse stage is meh because it's just Battlefield with different music and people's mostly awful art in the background. I'm waiting for the truly decent artist to get in there and post nice drawings. It would have been nice to switch it up by having the platforms move or something.

[Luigi Dude]

Do games to DLC season passes even when there's no announcement about how much DLC there will be?  I'm thinking that's why there isn't one here.  That or Nintendo isn't really sure how much there'll be.

Probably has more to do with Nintendo knows how dedicated the Smash Bros fanbase is and can get away with charging higher prices for individual characters and stages like they are.  This is the kind of game a Season Pass wouldn't really help much since the people who want these characters and stages are going to buy them no matter what.  Nintendo figures the few put off my the lack of a Season Pass will easily be offset by everyone else going "OMG Roy and Ryu, holy **** its Dream Land 64, take all my money now".

[broodwars]

Do games to DLC season passes even when there's no announcement about how much DLC there will be?  I'm thinking that's why there isn't one here.  That or Nintendo isn't really sure how much there'll be.

Probably has more to do with Nintendo knows how dedicated the Smash Bros fanbase is and can get away with charging higher prices for individual characters and stages like they are.  This is the kind of game a Season Pass wouldn't really help much since the people who want these characters and stages are going to buy them no matter what.  Nintendo figures the few put off my the lack of a Season Pass will easily be offset by everyone else going "OMG Roy and Ryu, holy **** its Dream Land 64, take all my money now".

Honestly, I really want Nintendo to finally remake the Saffron City stage from Smash 64 and just shut up and take my money. They're already doing the Zelda stage from the game, which is really the only other N64 stage I was missing.

[pokepal148]

The Mario stage from that game is decent with the unique warp pipe mechanic.

[Wah]

I like ike, but roy is so much better it just sucks that he looks like a team flare grunt...