8 player mutiplayer Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Announced

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Good luck finding seven real life friends who are into Nintendo characters and into fighting games.

Are you remotely aware of how much casual players like Smash Bros? Like at all? I know at least
12
people who would go bananas over this. Also, it has amazing potential for Twitch/videogame shows, and I guarantee that will net even more recognition to the mode (assuming the performance is good).

Anyways, I am utterly hyped for this. Frankly, this is much more of a selling point for me, especially since potential for making the game an interesting competitive platform looks disappointingly similar to Brawl.
 
With this feature I expect this game to be on full time in college dorms across the country. Smash is already one of the most popular games and this can only help it.
 
Now this is awesome. Remind me of Scrabble Mode in Street Fighter x Tekken, which my brother and I had a lot of fun with.

Sucks that it's local only, but at least bots can be used.
 
I figured the announcer was 'humorously' counting upwards and that there's really one eight-player mode with locked stages, not three seperate 5p/6p/8p modes. Still not clear to me, but here's hoping!
Later in the Direct you see that it's just one 8-Player Smash mode.
 
I figured the announcer was 'humorously' counting upwards and that there's really one eight-player mode with locked stages, not three seperate 5p/6p/8p modes. Still not clear to me, but here's hoping!

Yeah it's pretty clear that this is what was going on.
 
8 Falcon Punches...

I hope Nintendo knows how many damages suits they're opening themselves up to. There will be broken TV's everywhere.
 
Looks good but if I did that, I wouldn't actually be able to play the game. :P

The WiiU really should have ha USB 3.0 (or atleast a couple more 2.0 ports on the back).

They really defeated the purpose of adding 2 more than the original Wii by making most stuff require a Y cable.
 
I get that Nintendo wants to sell amiibos, but this video makes the game seem very multiplayer unfriendly - like your friend needs to go out and buy an amiibo if he wants to be able to jump in the game and play.
 
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