Smash Bros Cast

Episode 5  Smash 4 History Developer: Bandai Namco and Sora Ltd Release Date: 3DS Japan September 13, 2014, US October 3, 2014, and EU October 4, 2014 WiiU US November 21, 2014, EU November 29, 2014, Japan December 6, 2014 Development   During E3 2011, Smash was announced for the WiiU and the 3DS. Development for the game didn’t start until October of that year. At E3 2012 there was no mention of the game which confused and disappointed some fans because of it being announced a year earlier.  Shortly after E3 during a Nintendo Direct, it was announced that Bandai Namco was along with Sora, Sakurai’s company would be developing the game. At E3 2013, Sakurai began posting photos of the game regularly on the miiverse. At first they seemed to be random screenshots with no info, but eventually, that changed and he began including more info. December 5th, 2014, was the last post and you can see all the archived Miiverse posts here. July 2nd, 2012 Sakurai posted a whiteboard drawing to Twitter showing off a numbe