--- description: Nintendo just rolled out a special Nintendo Direct that walks through 50 of the game's new features, including an eight-player offline Smash mode. title: 50 Things About Super Smash Bros. Wii U image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # 50 Things Nintendo Wants You to Know About Super Smash Bros. Wii U by [Matt Peckham](/author/matt-peckham/) ## Matt Peckham Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 24, 2014 1:43 PM CUT by [Matt Peckham](/author/matt-peckham/) ## Matt Peckham Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 24, 2014 1:43 PM CUT Some of us, myself included, were worried Nintendo’s _Super Smash Bros._ for Wii U wouldn’t make 2014\. But then Nintendo ska-kawed our disquiet at the not-quite eleventh hour, announcing a few weeks ago that, yes, the game would arrive this year: November 21, [in case you missed it](http://time.com/3478045/super-smash-bros-wii-u-amiibo/ "undefined"). Now the company’s released a 35-minute primer on the game that’s basically a feature pitch video. It’s (almost) nothing _Smash_ aficionados don’t already know, but everything that’s new gets nicely compiled into a single straight-through look. It’s also a helpful thing to watch if (a) you haven’t yet bought the 3DS version and so have no idea what’s different from _Super Smash Bros. Brawl_, (b) you’re a fighting-game fan who’s never played a _Super Smash Bros._ game but you’re _Smash_\-curious, or (c) you want to see what the corybantic madness of eight-player offline _Smash_ — a series first — looks like. And with that, I suppose I’d better finish watching it, since I’m going to be playing the Wii U game tonight at a Nintendo event in Detroit. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3536460/super-smash-bros-wii-u/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3536460/super-smash-bros-wii-u/"},"headline":"50 Things Nintendo Wants You to Know About Super Smash Bros. Wii U","datePublished":"2014-10-24T13:43:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:03:30.221Z","description":"Nintendo just rolled out a special Nintendo Direct that walks through 50 of the game's new features, including an eight-player offline Smash mode.","url":"https://time.com/3536460/super-smash-bros-wii-u/","keywords":["Tech","Video Games","Nintendo","Wii U"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Matt Peckham","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/matt-peckham/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3536460/super-smash-bros-wii-u/","name":"50 Things Nintendo Wants You to Know About Super Smash Bros. Wii U"}}]}] ```