Smash Bros Cast

Episode 4   Smash Bros Brawl History Developer: HAL Laboratories, Sora, Game Arts, Monolith Soft, Paon and Intelligent Systems. Development began in October 2005 Release Date: January 31st 2008 in Japan. March 9th, 2008 in North America. Australia was June 26th and Europe was June 27th 2008. Development   In 2005 at a pre E3 press conference President of Nintendo Satoru Iwata announced that the next Smash game was already in development for the Wii. Masahiro Sakurai had HAL back in 2003 and was surprised to learn of its development, because Iwata had told him he would be in charge of the next instalment following Melee. Iwata invited Sakurai to his hotel room in LA and ask him to direct Brawl. According to Did You KNow Gaming Iwata told Sakurai if he didn’t join the team they would just re-release Melee with online play. Sakurai was on board and Nintendo hired an outside studio who according to Sakurai had played excessive amounts of Melee. Brawl’s official trailer was at E2 May 10, 2006. Sakurai told IGN th