Super Smash Bros. Ultimateis less than two months away, and the Nintendo hype machine is operating at full power. To help prepare fans for what to expect in the game, Nintendo will be hosting a specialSuper Smash Bros. UltimateNintendo Direct event on November 1. Here’s how you’re able to watch the event.
TheSuper Smash Bros. UltimateNintendo Direct will begin at 10 a.m. ET/7 a.m. PT and will last for about 40 minutes. You can tune in at Nintendo’sofficial website, but if you don’t want to go to another site, you can watch it via Twitch at the top of this page.
Nintendo hasn’t specified what will be shown during the Nintendo Direct event, but said it feature “new information on the game.” In the past, Nintendo has used these events as opportunities to show off new features and new stages, and make character announcements. We’ve learned about multiple Castlevania characters through Nintendo Direct events, as well as the addition of Donkey Kong’s King K. Rool.
But don’t stop watching once the Nintendo Direct event has concluded! Following the presentation, a Nintendo Treehouse: Live event will begin, and it will focus on several upcoming Switch games. These includePokémon: Let’s Go,Yoshi’s Crafted World, andDiablo III: Eternal Collection. The Treehouse event will also include additional live gameplay fromSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Thus far, Nintendo has announced 68 different characters forSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate. The roster includes every single fighter ever seen in another game in the series, with some acting as “echoes” of other fighters. This means that they basically have the same moves and abilities as the character they’re echoing, but Nintendo seems to have realized that fan service is more important than anything else with Smash Bros.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimatealso includesmore than 100 playable stages, each with different “forms” for competitive players not interested in hazards. A “stage morph” feature also allows you to switch to a second stage midbattle, which should help bring a new layer of intensity to multiplayer fights.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimatecomes exclusively to Nintendo Switch on December 7. Using an adapter, it will be compatible withGameCube controllers.
