Super Smash Bros. Namdai

[Aeolus]

http://www.siliconera.com/2012/08/24/tekken-producer-on-why-nintendo-chose-namco-bandai-for-super-smash-bros/

Tekken likely confirmed. Probably one of Heihachi's kin or the man himself.

[Yggdrasil]

"I think Nintendo chose us just because Smash Brothers is a fighting game."

It always has been more like a brawler than a traditional fighting game to me. But eh, who cares.

[Alisha]

i misunderstood this initially and thought namdai was making its own clone...im a bit perplexed by this...is this gonna be like fzero x and star fox assault all over again? is there a reason hal cant do it? in b4 kirby and dedee dropped from roster.

[Yggdrasil]

For what I've read before, Nintendo wants to get the game out as soon as possible to get people interested in buying the Wii U and 3DS.

[Ashtrot]

Gah. I made the same mistake as Alisha and thought it was a Nmadai made clone. Oops.

[Aeolus]

For what I've read before, Nintendo wants to get the game out as soon as possible to get people interested in buying the Wii U and 3DS.

That and the fact that Project Sora (a miniature dev studio, like HAL Laboratories and Intelligent Systems, and the most recent project that the creator of Smash Bros) was shut down shortly after completing Kid Icarus might have something to do with it.

Of course, IIRC, Brawl had help from Game Arts so this isn't the first time the series has looked beyond Nintendo's own development studios and might even suggest that there won't be any Namdai representation herein.