

Smash Ultimate's netplay is one of the weakest offerings in fighters this past generation, yet it's more flooded with players than any other.Ī big thing that would make this game last almost indefinitely would be if Nintendo and the developers could finally figure out good rollback netcode. There's still plenty of things about the title that could be improved upon, and the biggest indicator of such is in its online play. That doesn't mean Smash Ultimate is perfect, however. The game stands as a shining achievement of video games as a whole and deserves to be celebrated as such. We've never really seen a fighting game with the scope and scale of Smash Ultimate ever before in the genre with 86 playable characters plus 100+ stages, and the developers somehow pretty much nailed the execution too. So why are we feeling pretty adamant that Smash Ultimate should receive the Deluxe treatment before a new entry?

The game did so well in fact (and people are still playing it) that the developers are making new map packs for the next 2 years despite it being almost 8 years old. We've already seen Nintendo find huge success in this avenue with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, considering its sold over 43 million copies on the Switch after pushing 8 million on the Wii U. I'm pretty sure most video game players would likely say that they'd rather see something brand new released than a re-release, but this title might be a special exemption.
