Smash Bros Wii U/3DS Nintendo Direct Coverage

Welcome to our (kinda) live Smash Bros direct! This post will contain the live stream as soon as it goes up. You’ll find an extensive write-up below right after the Direct has ended! No lazy vagueness or inaccuracies like our competitors use to do.

I’ll try to do live updates, but I can’t promise anything seeing as I want to follow the Direct myself and I don’t have my second screen with me. I’ll be with you every minute though and you are free to discuss things in the comments!

The stream starts 3 pm Pacific – 6 pm Eastern – 11 pm UK time – 12 am Central European time and 7 am for our Japanese visitors. See you then!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrWL4EuCp5E#t=839

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2,488 thoughts on “Smash Bros Wii U/3DS Nintendo Direct Coverage”

  1. You’ll never believe this. My school was legally closed due to a running water problem, now I’ll be able to see the Direct live AT HOME!

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  2. I really dont get the vita hate going on here.
    Its a great system, its a shame that its not selling though

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  3. ok ok these may not happen but heres my some how comes true predicts
    1.Costumes will be confirmed with changing the Move set very little( like Dr mario throws pills, Minish Cap toon link pecks the player)
    2.More then one Newcomer and veteran
    Possible
    Pac-Man
    Shulk
    Fawful(for xatu)
    NEW POKEMON
    Veterans
    Yoshi
    Ice climbers
    Mewtwo
    3. Final smashes will be shown
    4. Items will be shown
    5. GAMEPLAY

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  4. Smash bros direct starts, Pikachu is chilling on Lumiose City stage, gets 360 spin kicked
    “Tierno dances into battle!”

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  5. we get the ips that change each nintendo systems. It may be the same old game but atleast Nintendo sticks with there ips and their fans…. wheres sly cooper been, Jak and Dexter Sony, and Microsoft other ips i dont car eabout WHERE ARE U oh u gave up. Im going to play mario kart on every system while everything on Ps and Microsoft doesnt make it pass the system and there games dont get good reviews like sly cooper now since they dont care

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  6. Oh man! A Pokémon Side Story Game for Wii U that has villains using Alchemy and you use your own alchemy and the power of friendship with your Pokémon to stop the Evil Team from taking the world!!!!

    This should happen!

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  7. ITS EVALUATION TIME! no but on a serious not, did you notice that siebold in the anime did the same hand gesture as cilan :O Maybe cilan looked up to him

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  8. We should have a Spinoff RPG, where our character is a scientist who created a suit that gives the user different abilities. You catch a Pokémon, take it’s DNA, put in the suit, and you can use that Pokémon powers!

    For example, Take Yanmega’s DNA, and have the suit scan it, and you can fly, and the helmet you where will allow you to see with Compound Eyes!

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  9. Today just feels so special. Were all together awaiting Iwata’s “Please Understand!” Feels so good to be here :’)

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  10. A little bit of action before the Direct it seems 😉

    Come at me troll! I collect stuffed Pokemon plushes! Aren’t you going to call me a girl or something?

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  11. xD I love how the trolls say something they like, then they upvote it to make themselves feel good and to show how modest they are xD

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  12. One last thing:
    Honestly, I would LOVE to see this AMAZING troll’s Pokémon face off against Maple.
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    XD

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  13. Day 5: my expedition searching for a Foongus with calm regeneration is a failure. I have no food. No shelter and the snowstorm is getting stronger. A pack of wolves pitied me and peed on my only sleeping bag. God have mercy on my soul

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  14. We need a Hoenn article….
    Happy HoennJohto Day
    Did anyone used to think Skarmory was originated in gen 3

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  15. Guys anyone know that one song or track from Space Jam
    IT’S DRIVING ME NUTS
    it goes Dun Dun Dun Dundundundun Dun dun dun dundundun

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  16. has “hunty” and “keeping it real” in his/her vocab…. display name is Come & Get It… typical Selena Gomez fan. Trust me, I deal with these trolls on twitter all the time XD

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  17. GUYS. I’ll say it again. DO >>>NOT<<< respond to anyone misbehaving or attempting to cause mischief. It gives them the reaction they want. Do as someone did just now and report it to one of us. It's much more helpful.

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  18. One cool thing: if something gets downvoted a lot during a short period of time, that comments automatically gets marked as spam and deleted. Use your combined might wisely 🙂

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  19. This is the final prediction thread! Comment on which Pokémon you think will be in! You have until the stream starts. Winner(s) will get something small but nifty! You have to have all your prediction turn out to win.

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  20. Well, see everyone after the news has dropped. Going to focus so that the information can go “Directly” to me.

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  21. So far on Smash what’s everyone’s main character
    Mine is:
    Pikachu
    Villager
    Wii Fit Trainer
    Pikmin
    Rosalina
    Zelda
    Marth

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  22. @heavymetal, Remember earlier you were speculating on what Gen 6 Pokemon tutor moves will be? 3 words: Yveltal Knock Off :OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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  23. It just started thundering here and my power fluctuated shortly before :c
    hope it doesn’t go off when the stream starts

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  24. ok here’s the pokemon music i want to see in this game:
    B/W gym battle
    Korrina’s theme
    xerneus/yveltal theme
    B/W route 10
    N’s castle
    zekrom/reshiram theme
    N’s farewell
    Embracing One’s Duty

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  25. watch I’m gonna be chatting away and them I’m gonna be like “where’d everyone go?” and “how do y’all know the characters now?” and then ill be like…

    oh poop

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  26. I must begin the ritual before it’s too late!
    Fawful ald neoei oeign nerin…
    Jill eroien w’epjgn erinoerg…
    KOOLOO-LIMPAH!

    I tried my hardest. Let’s hope.

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  27. I am really wondering how Megaman and his weapon collecting will work. Perhaps KO’ing an opponent once will cause him to obtain a portion of that opponents powers? but it might make him too similar to kirby…

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  28. ARE YOU KIDDING ME AIOHGVUYGEVPYGAEZBOAHSBHERBALEJHBIHBIUHBIUBHISPUHBIPFDBHPOZDHFBOPDZFHBODUFHBUDPOFHBSPUNSKBJRTNBLKRA N

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  29. GRENINJA I HAVE A PLUSH RIGHT HERE NO WAY NO WAY NO WAY I HAVE A CHARMANDER TOO THIS IS FATE WHAT IS LIFE I LOVOE ME EOIENRG

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  30. GRENINJA!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? FRICKING GRENINJA?@!??!?!?!?!?!QLUGDLIWQKJHFLWOEUHTFMLAHI
    LHAHIBFANRI>BKREFNMRNMRNI>RLBIFKLBRLBKGHFB

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  31. There’s Fennekin, there’s Greninja, but no Chesnaught? What if they add Quilladin to complete the pattern? 😮

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  32. Okay so just got here for the last part of the video, You can now play as Charizard and Greninja in the new supersmash but there’s no pokemon trainer? Why can’t we play as venusaur and blastoise too then ? 🙁

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      • True and I guess blastoise would be too similar to bowser…but Greninja just seems a little random to me. Out of all the pokemon they could’ve chosen they chose him. I like Greninja but I just never would’ve guesses you could play as him

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    • Chesnaught would be too similar to bowser I think. Of the three, Greninja was the obvious choice. Although I would’ve preferred an older pokemon to be in it like Mewtwo or maybe Mew.

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    • #TheFavoritismisFine 😛 Who cares about that anyway? You never know, Y could still appear, they haven’t revealed a grass starter yet, so Chesnaught could still appear, although Serperior would be my preferred option.

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  33. Time for Sceptile to join right???
    It fits the most in smash and lus they have fire starter and water starter

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    • I swear, I that last bit felt like I was on the best date ever and have fallen madly in love. Sakurai, be my waifu!!!

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  34. I understand Charizard being included, I prefer squirtle’s line but Charizard has been the fanboy’s little darling for 20 years now. GRENINJA THOUGH !!?!? That’s unnecessary favouritism over all the other 16 evolutions

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    • But the 3DS version doesn’t look as good the Wii U version though. I suppose the 3DS version is for those who like portable gaming that you can play with friends anywhere.

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      • But the fact that both versions have to have the same roster limits what the wii u can do. For example Sakuri said he was having trouble making the ice climbers on 3ds so they might be cut.
        If I had to guess this is the reason they aren’t doing character transformations because the 3ds can’t handle it

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          • Yes it does they say they have the exact same roster, so if the 3ds can only handle 20 characters the wii u will only have 20 characters.
            And if the ice climbers won’t work on the 3ds they will get cut from the wii u version

  35. GUYS
    for charizard’s mega cam down

    probably each mega will be exclusive final smash to each version like wii u has x and 3ds had y

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  36. I’m not sure if it’s just Charizard as a standalone character. It may be hinting at Pokemon Trainer with the mega kanto starters.

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  37. Who agrees out of all the Grass fully evolved starters Sceptile fits very well, and it would make a great character

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  38. I swear when I saw the Greninja charge his thing at first, in my head I was like ” MEW…Two? MEWTWO CONFIRMED”

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  39. I find it dumb how everyones all like “favoritism this” and “favoritism that” because no matter what pokemon they chose, people would be like that -_-

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  40. Idk how chesnaught wasn’t included
    Grass/fighting
    Has a great protection move or b-down move whatever you call it {le spiky shield}
    Distance move= seed bomb
    Mach punch…
    So many possibilities…
    wtf why was it not…
    I can’t…
    I am so dun…

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    • notice at the bottom where it has the pic of each character there’s still seven blank spots (unless thats just cuz theres none left in that row)

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      • I think there will definitely be more than this (hopefully)
        Though I am worried that it won’t be as big as I would like because of the technical restraints on the 3ds version

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  41. Ugh. This crying about favoritism and choosing Charizard X and shit is getting ANNOYING Have we forgotten all the balancing they’ve done? The new PokeBall Pokemon?

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  42. Only thing I was happy about : zero suit booty- I mean samus.
    Maybe the YOSHI thing
    But still
    No ness
    No jiggly puff
    No hurrn
    No chespin line anything
    More charizard favoritism
    :,(

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  43. Hopefully that trailer makes the “gamers” who say Pokemon is for children, swallow their words. IT WAS PURE ADULT EPIC.

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  44. In all seriousness favoritism is how characters get chosen for smash, they aren’t going to put in a character that everybody hates, they pick the most popular characters that could work.

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  45. DANG IT!!! XD Just realized I can’t get 16th commenter w/ Ziia here. xD It’s okay, she being here is better than that.

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  46. This switches things up for me! I’ll pay full price for the 3DS version instead and simply reserve the Wii U version.

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  47. 1. Notice how they never showed the Mega Evolution scene?
    2. Notice how the only new (and somewhat returning) characters were Pokémon?
    3. Who’s is using Greninja as a main? I mean, amiright?!

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  48. Yes, Greninja is playing favoritism, but at least Sakurai chose a pokemon no one saw coming….XD. Heck everyone thought it would be Mewtwo, or Blaziken or Jiggly. I’m actually glad it was none of those XD. Yes, I’m not a fan of Greninja, but I’m glad it was not any of the above. And gotta admit that trailer was AMAZING!! XDDD

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  49. Sooooooooooooooooo you know that official artwork (Earthen and Clauncher posted it) Does anyone else see the twerking Peach?

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  50. Neutral or Side B: Water Shuriken it can throw little watery blades or charge them up
    Down B: Substitute it feints and counters
    Up B: I saw a upward leaping Waterfall or even Quick Attack
    Final Smash: Night Slash it strikes the opponent with quick dazing precision

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  51. If they are splitting up the pokemon trainers pokemon rather than just cutting squirtle and ivysaur, I hope they make them all fully evolved

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  52. [IMG]www.gifsforum.com/images/gif/other/grand/Super_Smash_Bros_Direct_482014_80f92a87b6da1496f39924844fc8e2f0.gif[/IMG]

    I think this will work :3 Refresh!

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  53. As everyone should know Smash Bros. 3DS comes out around the Summer time and Smash Bros. Wii U releases in the Winter time! Which version are you all getting? (I think I might end up getting both!)

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  54. Earthen, didn’t you speculate earlier that maybe you could ride Skiddo/Gogoat? Looks like you were right lol

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  55. Sooooo Mega Lucario has been confirmed as Lucario’s Final Smash anddddddd ONCE MORE, Mega Charizard X has been confirmed as Charizard’s Final Smash.

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  56. @thegreatcarbinkle, sorry, I have to go for dinner. I can talk strats now for a few mins if you;d like. I have to go soon though.

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  57. I hate the 3DS graphics for Smash Bros. They could’ve probably have been better, but it reminds me of a fancy GBA game. Greninja sold it for me though!

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  58. I’ve literally never been this excited about a game before. This breaches X and Y by one thousand times. If Greninja is featured on either of their covers, then my hype would go up again. If Fawful or Jill don’t become fighters…I’ll be fine with that. The only thing that saddened me was that neither of them were shown in that long list of assist trophies. 🙁

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  59. You know what, I’m going to have a crazy GameStop blowout this weekend if Smash Bros. is now available for pre-order. I’ll pay full price for Smash Bros. 3DS and Kirby Triple Deluxe, and lay down $20 for Smash Bros. U, rendering me completely broke. Because those are the only games I’ll be needing for a LONG time.

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  60. what i hope for next month if sbb releases something: peach zelda and zero suit samus all in the battle and then bayonetta appears :3

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  61. I can say what we’re all thinking
    Absolutely “NONE” of us could’ve guess Greninja was going to be the Newcomer

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  62. But these means one of two things:
    1. Bye bye Pokemon Trainer
    Or
    2. Pokemon Trainer with most likely Unova starters, due to no Unova pokemon ever being playable while the game was out.

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  63. I haven’t seen the whole Direct. I just skimmed it because I have class now. I’ll check out more of it later.

    I get so giddy when I see Gen V and VI pokémon in anything outside of the XY games! :’)

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  64. Greninja looks amazing in its 3DS screenshots, luckily. Those are the ones we have to focus on, given the closer release.

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  65. Wow, I’m really behind on homework now. April 8th 2014 shall forever be remembered as THE DAY POKEMON INVADED!

    And I will never look at Greninja as just another starter, nor did I ever do so. It is now a fighter in one of the largest games in history. Good night everyone!

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  66. I know I’m late about this, and I know that I’ve already been spoiled about this, but…

    GRENINJA!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    oh yeah charizard’s here too, but
    GRENINJA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  67. i was inspired by @itsbirdy from instagram and his drawing of the water starters wearing their final evo jacket or sweater!
    So i kinda did one for the fire starter and sorry to those who like emboar but i got lazy to draw him.

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  68. Do you guys really think there’ll be a grass starter? Sceptile is too much like a Greninja/Lucario in terms of speed and attack. Torterra, Meganium, and Venusaur are too bulky. Chesnaught I only see happening if they also add Delphox which may overshadow Charizard being in it. Serperior would be the coolest but I’m not holding my breath..

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    • I see chestnaught but they already added in a kalos starter. so do you think they are gonna change it to another region?

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    • I would kill an apple to have Serperior as a playable character, but they probably won’t due it because Serperior’s Mega Evolution hasn’t been revealed yet.

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    • I fear people will say “Just another Bowser” if Chesnaught were to be added. 🙁 I do wish that Chesnaught make an appearance, though.

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  69. Theory time! I think Mega Zard X might be exclusive to the Wii U version and Zard Y in the 3DS version.. The Wii U logo does have that blue flame on it and orange in the 3DS logo buuuut that would be a weird thing for them to pull.. #Isuportequality hahaha

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    • TLDW:
      1. 3DS and Wii U versions will have same characters, but unique stages except Battlefield and Final Destination. Unique “classic” stages shown such as Halberd.
      2. Zero Suit Samus and Shiek announced as separate characters from Samus and Zelda
      3. Yoshi revealed
      4. List of items shown including Masterball
      5. Charizard revealed
      6. Greninja revealed
      7. Moves list of Megaman revealed
      8. 60fps announced on 3ds
      9. 3ds Summer 2014 Wii U Winter 2014

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  70. Hello!Does anyone have scrafty,kadabra,meowstick,aegislash,doubled,whirlipede,scolipede,slurpuff,skiploom
    jumpluff,loudred,crobat???I need them just for data! Please

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