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With eight players, Super Smash Bros. for the Wii U is a riot (preview)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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I got a little tired of all the other players kicking my Donkey Kong in the face. I was playing a preview of Super Smash Bros. for the Wii U, a long-awaited game that comes out on Nintendo’s console on Nov. 21. And the seasoned players around me were knocking me out of the arena.

This is a strategically important game for Nintendo, as it will determine whether the Wii U can still remain relevant as a competitor to the Sony PlayStation 4 and the Microsoft Xbox One consoles. Nintendo needs exclusives like this to grab a bigger share of hardcore gamers. A companion title, Super Smash Bros. for the Nintendo 3DS, debuted earlier this month and sold 705,000 units in two days and prompted a 55 percent increase in 3DS portable hardware sales.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.