Super Smash Bros. Brawl delayed until March 9th

by JC Fletcher { Jan 15th 2008 at 2:24AM }

Super Smash Bros. Brawl just wasn't done breaking hearts. After the crushing disappointment of having our $19.98 preorders canceled, Nintendo's latest news is a kick while we're down. And not a fun in-game kick, from Yoshi or something. The regular kind.

The rumors were true. Nintendo of America has announced that Brawl is delayed until March 9th. The official reason? "Development is taking slightly longer than expected." We're just going to assume that the real reason is that Nintendo's taking the time to add (character you want). The Japanese release has been delayed, as well, until the 31st of this month. Masahiro Sakurai has apologized for the delay on the Dojo site.

For those of you who are counting, this is the second delay for this game. Once upon a time, we thought we were going to be Brawling online as soon as December 3rd. It's now ... considerably later than that, is what it is.

[Via Joystiq]

Tags: brawl, delay, smash-bros-brawl, super-smash-bros-brawl

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

charcoal @ Jan 15th 2008 2:28AM

god damn it nintendo...

metalmechanica99 @ Jan 15th 2008 2:42AM

At least that pikmin stage "Distant Planet" is amazing.

HellsHammer @ Jan 15th 2008 2:39AM

Oh, sweet!!.....

Take as long as you want, Nintendo (or Pal Lab, or whoever). I am ready to wait. As a third installment, Smash Brawl has a lot to live up to. If the game has glitches or faults, I don't want it, yet.

Make it perfect and sell me a game worth $50.

Tristan @ Jan 15th 2008 2:45AM

lol at the picture showing the actual "version" of the film that was leaked before the movie even came out...

But anyway, darn delay what could be causing it, online server capacity issues, characters, localization, gosh i just dont know.

metalmechanica99 @ Jan 15th 2008 2:56AM

The delusional fanboy in me says it's support for downloading online content like characters and stages. Maybe it's so they can put smash on the vc a few weeks ahead of time to make more money off of it.

Matt @ Jan 15th 2008 5:42PM

I hope they don't have downloadable levels and stuff. My hard drive is full.

Tristan @ Jan 15th 2008 6:04PM

I hope there isnt more downloadable content then the daily sending of levels.

likedonduan @ Jan 15th 2008 2:49AM

Let's we all form a circle and cry together!

clif @ Jan 15th 2008 2:49AM

Yea. I can wait it sucks. But maybe it has something to do with wiiware and external hard-drive support. There was a feature that was burred out that the smash creator had hoped to put in. Well hopefully that can be added.
I just hope people can take it. I don't mind in the gaming world it means that in the end smash will be amazing. But hey if mega man is in it let's say then that's even better and maybe 50 charcters for a total roster then hey the game will be amazing as well as no glitches then 50 dollars will be well spent.
Anyone excitied for Macworld's keynote? Yea that off topic but at least the macbook thin isn't being delayed :-).

kleet @ Jan 15th 2008 2:50AM

I'm all about Nintendo's "A great game later is better then a bad game now" theory and all but this just sucks.

At this rate we'll be playing Brawl for the first time while Grandpa is carving the Thanksgiving turkey.

Bryan Law @ Jan 15th 2008 3:00AM

Japan gets it at the end of the month, and we get it in March?!?! Why do you hate us Nintendo? First the Wii Demos channel, and now this...

Tell you what Nintendo, give us the Demo channel, and then a playable demo of Brawl next week to make it up to us, mmkay?

crazypenguin @ Jan 15th 2008 6:32AM

actually, they have a ds demo chanel to connect to your ds, not wii demos. the wii doesn't have enough space for wii demos.
Anyway, i think the wait is worth it. if it means adding other characters, then i'd be much obliged. if it were sony or microsoft though i'd be pissed right now and just give us update through online but the problem is the wii doesn't have downloads for wii, not even wii ware will be able to patch a game. the next console better be one with a hard drive or i won't buy it.

Benjamin Breeg @ Jan 15th 2008 3:03AM

Well, to be fair, Nintendo said a long time ago that Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime 3, and Smash Bros Brawl would all be out on Wii launch day.

Then we got the official launch day games list, and no Brawl, or Metroid. Later, we got Brawl's release date of not 2008, but December 3rd, 2007. Then Nintendo made a liar out of Reggie, as it was indeed pushed back to February 10th, 2008. So it's actually the 3rd delay, though the shortest of all 3.

I just hope we don't get another delay, in a month, and then another, until it's Nintendo's flagship holiday 2008 title.

Also, it kinda sucks the delay was for no apparent reason, other than either anticipated shortages or translating issues. Its not to add more content and fine tune it, you can't do that in 7 days, its to allow for more discs when it actually launches. And then probably a mixture of both that, and there being a lot of text to translate.

I liked December 3rd, it was the week before my winter vacation starts. February 10th was alright, though it was a month into Spring semester. Now March 9th, appears to be either right before or hopefully right after midterms.

samfish @ Jan 15th 2008 9:08AM

They never said Brawl would be out on launch day. Sakurai said that he would LIKE to have it be a launch title, is all.

John Lyon @ Jan 15th 2008 3:03AM

I guess this gives me time to complete No More Heroes without any pressure.

Almadi @ Jan 15th 2008 12:54PM

No No. The reason for releasing No More Heroes early was SSBB.
Now that it is delayed the release date will go back to early Feb.

Kristian Roque @ Jan 15th 2008 3:09AM

exactly. No More Heroes will at least keep me busy. Just bought Zack & Wiki today so I am excited. But.... Nintendo heard us... They are adding a mic support for this game arent they? I knew it.. I LOVE YOU NINTENDO!!!!!!!!

Leeroy @ Jan 15th 2008 7:09AM

Nah, Nintendo are oblivious to our wants, it's more about what they want to give us that counts sadly.

I guess we can always hope for a chat channel further down the line so the already released online games can still benefit from a headset.

The more Smash Bros get's pushed back, the less likely I see MarioKart Wii arriving any time in Q2(as scheduled), two Nintendo first party AAA titles within months of each other, no chance.

chas @ Jan 15th 2008 3:19AM

3 months isn't that big a delay, its worth it

Genome4824 @ Jan 15th 2008 3:49AM

"I deeply apologize" and we only get ONE update?!

F him. I am so sick of these delays without a REAL reason... Nintendo better give us a gold plated apology card when we pick up the game...

Kristian Roque @ Jan 15th 2008 4:17AM

oh goodness, calm down.

itisme @ Jan 15th 2008 4:15AM

Once upon a time we were told we'd have a new Smash Bros for the wii's launch...

SoshiKitai @ Jan 15th 2008 5:27AM

blargh....

ah well...more time to save money for it.

Fantus @ Jan 15th 2008 6:04AM

Still no release date for EU yet :(

Yami @ Jan 15th 2008 6:23AM

Nintendo has just lost my respect.

I think I might sell the Wii and get a 360 now cause this shit is REALLY getting on my nerves.

0suit @ Jan 15th 2008 6:31AM

thats actually starting to sounds like a good idea, plus devil my cry is coming out feb. unlike SOME GAMES!!!!!!!! T-T

Julien @ Jan 15th 2008 9:45AM

blah blah blah. Go play halo and don't bother us.

sn1per @ Jan 15th 2008 11:31AM

Don't come back crying when you get RROD'd. We won't take you back.

0suit @ Jan 15th 2008 6:28AM

DAMMIT!!!!!!!! i'm just mad that samfish was right T-T, and how long is nintendo going to be jerking me around? This is the biggest tease since free samples

samfish @ Jan 15th 2008 3:01PM

I'm going to print this post out and frame it on my wall! :p

Perverted @ Jan 15th 2008 7:19AM

*Joins circle and cries*
I think the real reason may be so the the EU release date is closer to the US one....
But i can only hope they add some sort of new feature; like voice chat, hard drive/download-able content or scrap friend codes......well maybe in a perfect Brawl world...

Anticrawl @ Jan 15th 2008 7:46AM

This is pretty lame, but atleast I will be able to afford it then since there are a few great games coming out the next two weeks or so.

I wanna believe that the reason the delayed it is because Nintendo is about to release a Wii mic and that they will announce SSB:B will support voice chat.... but alas that probably isn't the case. I'll just have to private chat over my 360 with the few friends I know who have a Wii.

beaus27 @ Jan 15th 2008 8:10AM

Sure waiting an extra month sucks. My birthday is Feb 5th,SSBB was going to be a bday gift to myself. Now I am getting NMH!!!!
Anyways, HEY Masahiro Sakurai take this extra time and PLEASE CONTACT Keiji Inafune. Super Smash Bros: Brawl needs MEGAMAN!!!

Randy @ Jan 15th 2008 9:11AM

I highly doubt that they're going to add another character this late into the development. (It's only another month.) My guess is that there's some show stopping glitch that they're trying to iron out.

nintendo1889 @ Jan 15th 2008 8:10AM

Heh. So, what happens to the order people made online (i.e. Amazon)? Are we plain S.O.L or will they give us refunds?

Oneiroi @ Jan 15th 2008 8:23AM

I'm fairly certain they only charge you when they ship. So you can cancel the order whenever you want.

Atlantis1982 @ Jan 15th 2008 8:17AM

I kind of hate/like this delay. I'll be getting Brawl a week prior to Spring Break; w00t. :D

Oneiroi @ Jan 15th 2008 8:21AM

Then I'm glad I pre-ordered yesterday...or not.
Jerks.

ScoTT @ Jan 15th 2008 8:24AM

If they are still not done making the game it better be the best game ever once it's released.

worm @ Jan 15th 2008 8:29AM

This makes me SOOOO ANGRY!!!!!!!! I had a release party planned and everything!!! This is freaking bullcrap. I've been counting down the number of days, and that number keeps increasing. That's not how a countDOWN usually works.

Julien @ Jan 15th 2008 9:47AM

a release par...HAHAHAHA

vidGuy @ Jan 15th 2008 8:42AM

Can't say I'm surprised (or that I didn't warn ya), but in honor of the character featured in the above pic, I'll express my disappointment thusly:

NNOOOOOOOOOO!!

racecar @ Jan 15th 2008 8:55AM

I'm only half disappointed. Christmas pretty much wiped out my video games budget until March anyway. On the downside, all of my friends who have Wiis are not in the same predicament and this means I won't be over at their house playing Brawl on the 10th.

This delay better bring 2 things: A universal Mii character and frickin' voice chat.

-racecar
http://everybodyvotes.blogspot.com

Mr Khan @ Jan 15th 2008 8:58AM

Sigh, disappointment is the rule of the generation, i suppose

Eh, Between No More Heroes in a week and finishing Radiant Dawn, i'll hold out easily until President's day

Then maybe i'll get a shot at replaying something. Like Super Paper Mario, Metroid Prime Hunters, or Metroid Prime 3