User:DecafPotato/drafts/Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a 2018 fighting game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and Sora Ltd., published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch.

Announcement and reveal
On March 8, 2018, Nintendo announced that the next Super Smash Bros. game would release on the Nintendo Switch sometime in 2018. The teaser, broadcast in an online Nintendo Direct presentation, did not reveal the title of the game. However, it showed several characters, including Mario, Link, and the Inklings from Splatoon, the last of would be new to the Super Smash Bros. series. At E3 2018 that June, Nintendo revealed the game's title as Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and announced that it would be released on December 7, 2018. The E3 presentation detailed several changes to the gameplay of Ultimate compared to previous titles, and highlighted that every playable character from past installments of the series would return in Ultimate, in addition to new characters like the Inklings and Ridley from the Metroid series, who was announced at the end of the presentation. Afterwards, Nintendo hosted an invitational tournament for the game featuring competitive players of Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Melee.