Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U

Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U are upcoming fighting video games in the Super Smash Bros. series. The games were first announced during E3 2011. The 3DS version will be released in Japan on September 13, 2014, in North America and Europe on October 3, 2014, and in Australia on October 4, 2014. The Wii U version will be released in Q4 2014.

Gameplay
Similar to previous games in the Super Smash Bros. series, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U is a competitive fighting game in which up to four players controlling various Nintendo characters fight against each other. Players use a variety of attacks to damage their opponents, increasing their damage percentage which makes them easier to knock out of the playing field. Smash Balls, items first introduced in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, make a return, allowing whoever obtains them to perform extremely powerful attacks. Assist trophies, another returning feature from Brawl, are included, such as Skull Kid from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask and a French Bulldog from Nintendogs. Like its predecessors, Super Smash Bros. features collectible in-game trophies based on characters or items seen in various Nintendo games.

Local and online multiplayer will be available in both the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U versions. Cross-platform multiplayer will not be possible due to the different maps across each game. Both versions include the same roster of playable characters, but the two versions each feature exclusive stages, assist trophies, and collectibles. The Nintendo 3DS version features an exclusive Smash Run mode, in which players navigate an open environment for stat-increasing power-ups, before facing each other in a match.

Online matches with strangers are divided into two modes: "For Fun" and "For Glory". For Fun features random stages and items, with Smash matches only and Final Destination stages omitted, while For Glory limits matches to Final Destination stages with no items and the option for 1-on-1 battles for more tournament-style gameplay. Players are also able to customize characters to alter the behavior of their move set; though, customized characters, including Mii Fighters, may only be used in local and friend matches. Players may transfer customized characters between the 3DS and Wii U versions, as well as certain items earned in specific modes. There is no ranking system for the online matches, but there are plans to ensure that random matches are organized by the players' skill levels.

Representation of Animal Crossing
The Villager has been confirmed to be a playable character. Isabelle is confirmed to be an assist trophy character, who assists her summoner by dropping Fruit onto the stage to heal their percentage.

Most of Villager's attacks are centered around various in-game actions. The currently revealed attacks are: firing a slingshot, digging opponents into the ground with a shovel, tripping while holding a pot with a sapling, sending various projectiles into his pocket, cutting a tree down using an axe, firing off a Fountain Firework, and dropping a bowling ball. Villager's Final Smash is called 'Dream Home', and consists of Tom Nook, Timmy, and Tommy building a house for Villager, which promptly explodes, blasting other combatants off the stage.

The Villager character is customizable just like the player character in the, with both male and female versions of the Villager playable.

Other newcoming characters include Mega Man, the Wii Fit Trainers (Both male and female), Rosalina and Luma from Super Mario Galaxy, Little Mac from Punch-Out!!,the Pokémon Greninja, Lucina, Robin and Chrom - (Robin's final smash only) from Fire Emblem, Mii's, Pac Man from Pac Man and Paltuena (even though she was Pit's final smash in Brawl) from Kid Icarus

Stages
The Wii U version of the game features a stage called Town & City, based on . The match starts out floating over a typical Animal Crossing town, with various villagers and Special Characters watching the battle, but Kapp'n drives his bus to the City, and the spectating characters change to reflect the City's shopkeepers.

On March 2014, a stage based on the Island in  was confirmed, called Tortimer Island. The island's layout changes each time the island is selected. Kapp'n, Leila and Tortimer have been shown to appear as background characters. This stage is only available on the Nintendo 3DS version of the game.