Super Smash Bros. (series): Difference between revisions

'''''Super Smash Bros.''''' is a series of fighting games published by [[Nintendo]], featuring characters from franchises established on Nintendo systems. The series had a successful start in 1999 with the game ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' released on the [[Nintendo 64]]. It achieved even greater success with ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'', released in 2001 for the [[Nintendo GameCube]], becoming the best selling game on that system. The third installment, ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'', was released on the [[Wii]] on January 31, 2008 in Japan, and was released on March 9th, 2008 in North America. A fourth game in the series, ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]'', was released for the [[Nintendo 3DS]] on September 13, 2014 in Japan, and on October 3 for other regions (excluding Germany, where the game was released one day earlier, and Australia, where the game was released a day later), while the [[Wii U]] version will be released on November 21, 2014 in North America. [[Masahiro Sakurai]] has directed all four games despite [[HAL Laboratory]] handing the series to a new developer for ''Brawl''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20060717223706/www.smashbros.com/wii/en/story/page_3.html|title=web.archive.org/web/20060717223706/www.smashbros.com/wii/en/story/page_3.html<!--INSERT TITLE-->}}</ref>