Fans of Nintendo's Smash Bros. fighting series were left chomping at the bit after company president Satoru Iwata said during E3 that a new entry will be coming to the Wii U and 3DS was announced. Project Sora boss Masahiro Sakurai, however, has clarified that we won't be seeing the game for a long while.

"Right now, we're devoting all our manpower to working on Kid Icarus," Sakurai revealed in his regular Famitsu column. "We've got no plans whatsoever -- we've got two new games out in the open when there's no extra time to work with them at all. It makes me cringe, and I'm not sure it's the smartest thing to make gamers wait for several years, but the early announcement was made chiefly in order to attract new team members."

He went on to explain that they were originally going to make a 3DS Smash Bros. game, but once Nintendo unveiled the Wii U they were faced with a choice. "My thought was that we had to go on both platforms," wrote Sakurai.

"If we went solely for the Wii U, the HD graphics would really bump up the visual effects, but then we'd be stuck in another arms race. If we made this game another extension over previous one, we'd have to cut out the new things we could possibly do on the 3DS hardware and compete with ourselves again over the size of the character roster and the amount of gameplay we can put it.

"It wouldn't be a fruitful competition, but doing something completely new would be difficult for many reasons, not least of which that the gamers may not be satisfied with it. That's why we decided to think about ways to link the personal connection one has with his portable system to the gather-around-and-play aspect of console systems."

It's still too early for Nintendo to discuss the finer details of the next Smash Bros. game, but here are some thoughts about what new features should be included.

Via [1Up]

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