The Wii includes a function called Wii Friends, but Smash friends will be registered independently. An icon, comment, taunt message, and the connection quality for each Smash friend are shown in the Friend List prior to brawling. Screens and descriptions show the process in detail.
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Nintendo have just revealed the US boxart for probably the biggest Nintendo Wii game for 2008: Super Mash Bros. Brawl. Most of the characters in the game are displayed on the box and this should attract more potential buyers. Super Smash Bros. Brawl will be released in Q1 2008 in America.
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Another five days of updates, and another five days of no new playable characters being revealed for Super Smash Bros. Brawl. It's beginning to be concerning, now, that some of the old Smash veterans haven't yet appeared in profiles on SmashBros.com ¿ the Captain Falcon fans, in particular, are about to fly to Masahiro Sakurai's house and toilet paper the place. But most distraught in this past week were probably past players of Ness, who was all but confirmed to be cut by the Thursday post detailing Lucas' all-too-similar special moves.
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According to IGN's GamerMetrics, the current top ten most-anticipated titles are as follows (ranked by percentages of mindshare among IGN's audience):

1. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii) 5.00%
2. WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2008 (PS3) 3.11%
3. Assassin's Creed (XB360) 2.63%
4. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) 2.54%
5. Mass Effect (XB360) 2.33%
6. WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2008 (XB360) 1.99%
7 Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (PS3) 1.91%
8. Assassin's Creed (PS3) 1.86%
9. Rock Band (XB360) 1.70%
10. Mario Kart Wii (Wii) 1.29%
11. Crysis (PC) 1.24%
12. Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (Wii) 1.13%

In addition, GamerMetrics analyzed IGN's traffics of Assassin's Creed for different SKUs (see the image below) and forecast that the game will sell 1 million units for Xbox 360 and 350,000 units for PS3 by the end of the year.
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Nov 7, 2007 As if Solid Snake wasn't enough for Super Smash Bros. Brawl's star-studded lineup, a second Metal Gear Solid character has joined the fight. Give a warm welcome to cybernetic half-blind ninja, Grey Fox! Don't get too excited though; Grey Fox appears as an assist trophy which means you won't be able to play as him. When activated, assist trophy characters will show up and help or hurt the player who summoned them. Grey Fox makes the scene with his ninja thing on whoever happens to ... » Read More

Solid Snake wasn't enough for Super Smash Bros. Brawl's star-studied roster; a second Metal Gear Solid character, the uni-eyed Grey Fox has joined the fight! But unfortunately you won't be able to play as him...

Grey Fox makes his Smash Bros. Appearance as an assist trophy, which help (or hurt) the player that activates them but aren't playable characters. In this case Grey Fox turns up and does his ninja thing on whoever happens to be in his way (he did chin a Metal Gear Rex after all) and look pretty damn hard in the process.
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Joystiq reports:

"A listing on voice actress Alesia Glidewell's online resume hints that Krystal, who debuted in the much loved (we kid, we kid) Star Fox Adventures, will make an appearance in the upcoming Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Glidewell lists among her credentials for video game voice over and motion capture three characters from the upcoming game: Krystal, Knuckle Joe, and Zero Suit Samus.

We don't know how Krystal will be incorporated into Brawl, if at all; she could be an assist trophy, a stage-centric distraction, a cameo in the single player storyline, or even a fully-fledged playable character. Then again, Krystal might've been cut entirely, or the resume is simply mistaken."
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Oct 29, 2007 It looks like Nintendo might be taking a few hints from Halo 3's community features, as after last week's reveal of Smash Bros. Brawl saved films, the company now confirms that a Forge-style level editor is also in the works. You'll be able to construct levels using any of Brawl's 2D backgrounds, then place, spin and drop various bits of scenery to create any number of block and mushroom-filed battle arenas. We think we even spy some Sonic the Hedgehog spikes in one of these new ... » Read More

It looks like the popular saved replay idea from Halo 3 is catching on. Wii's recently delayed Super Smash Bros. Brawl will incorporate video recording and sharing of brawls and target smash mode. The announcement from the game's creator Masahiro Sakurai is buried in the second half of his latest blog update. The first half mentions target smash mode, something that has been in the past two games, will also appear in Brawl. So, you may have missed the more exciting second half of his post if you didn't scroll down.

Sakurai says that the game will allow you to record and review up to three minutes of replay data. Then, you can send your favorite clips to your Wii Friends. How many times have you played SSB on GameCube or N64 and wanted to preserve a radical explosion or game-ending move that sent everyone else in all different directions? Now you can do just that in Brawl and constantly remind your soon-to-be-former friends of your awesome victory via Wii-mail.

Two screenshots of the video replay are at Gaming Target.
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl was the first in what has turned out to be a number of recent delays, both high and low profile. But while Nintendo bandied their stock explanation of having more time to polish the game to perfection, Perrin Kaplan, their outgoing vice president of marketing in the U.S., gave an additional reason for the delay, one that seems to be a growing trend: getting the hell out of the way of the holiday onslaught.

Kaplan said the following about the new February 10, 2008 release date:

"Sunday is actually a really good launch day of the week for products. And I think we're actually starting to look at the annual calendar differently. The first two quarters of the year tend to be more quiet. But now we've seen some evidence of sales in that period. Other than the holiday quarter, I think the traditional way of viewing it is not necessarily a slam dunk. I think a really good product can be a slam dunk any time of the year."

Of course, Kaplan also said the extra time for polish contributed to the delay, saying "we see it [as] a little bit of a perfection program to make sure the game is absolutely as perfect as Japan knows it can be and it will." But for anyone who has ever complained about the glut of holiday releases -- as if publishers don't realize we like to play games all year round -- it's nice to see the message is being heard.
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23 Oct, 07 Super Smash Bros. Melee sold millions on GameCube, the most popular title to ever hit the console. Smash Bros Wii, even by the most conservative of estimates, is expected to sell no less than nine billion copies in its launch week. Are Microsoft and Sony missing a trick by not developing their own loved-up first-party fan-service mash-up scrapper? Maybe. Weve run our own simulations, the fruits of which youll find below. And weve taken a few liberties with characters, adding some ... » Read More

Destructoid's Zeke has created an interesting analysis of the Smash Bros Dojo web site. Using deductive reasoning, he may have found a way to predict who Brawl's as of yet unannounced playable characters will be.
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The green gloves, the at-the-ready stance, that uppercut ... it can't be! It is! It's Little Mac, the boxer that (ocassionaly) beat Mike Tyson in Punch-Out, set to appear in Super Smash Bros. Brawl!
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In light of Nintendo's announcement that Super Smash Bros. Brawl has been delayed until 2008, IGN's GamerMetrics analyzed the implications that this delay will have on the holiday sales of other upcoming games available for the Nintendo Wii.

According to GamerMetrics analyst Nick Williams, the resulting findings put Super Mario Galaxy at the top of the most anticipated games list. Rounding out the top three are Capcom's Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure and Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles.
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Today's Smash Bros. Brawl update reveals the re-addition of the snapshot feature, but this time with a little bit more flexibility for photography fans.

One screen has a portion of it blurred out. It is a feature that Nintendo is working on, but not sure if it will make it into the game or not. What could it be?
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In this article, Wired writes:

"Michael Pachter, an analyst with Wedbush Morgan Securities, said the delay likely won't have a significant impact on sales of the game.

"But instead of Nintendo being the clear winner this holiday, maybe Microsoft has a chance of keeping up. There's not as much compelling Nintendo content this holiday without it," he said.

Of Nintendo's competitors, Microsoft looks to have the best holiday outlook on continued sales of Halo 3 for Xbox 360, which raked in nearly $300 million in its first week of sales.

Sony will trail in third place this year, said Pachter."
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At Nintendo's US Media Summit today, it was confirmed that the US would also be experiencing a two month delay for Super Smash Bros. Brawl. The title isn't set for a release here until Sunday, February 10.
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Oct 11, 2007 Well, now we know why Sonic was announced yesterday - to cover up today's saddening news that Super Smash Bros. Brawl will NOT launch in 2007. George Harrison, Nintendo's vice president of marketing, said today that the game will hit stores on February 10th in the US, with no news on a PAL release. Nintendo's official media site still has yet to reflect this change as of 10:00am. Though our first reaction is one of life-ending violence, we actually welcome this delay. There are ... » Read More

Oct 10, 2007 In a double strike Nintendo has granted the wishes of fanboys worldwide, and then stirred up a little disappointment as well. After all the hoping and crying, Sonic is officially in Super Smash Bros. Brawl! Look at him running around in the official character trailer - and it's not the rubbish next-gen Sonic either; he's awash with plenty of old school sound effects an animations. We officially cannot wait for this game. The US site now lists the release date as "TBD." Did they ... » Read More

The page is still being updated at the time of this posting.

Information released so far includes:
-Sonic is in Brawl
-Online Co-op for Brawl
-Japanese version of Brawl delayed
-Mario Kart Wii has motorcycles
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