History Trivia / SuperSmashBrosUltimate

** With ''VideoGame/JumpForce'', due to being a crossover fighting game of ''Magazine/ShonenJump'' works while ''Ultimate'' is a crossover fighting game featuring the characters from Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s video game series and other related works. Plus, both games were announced at [[UsefulNotes/ElectronicEntertainmentExpo E3 2018]], and were released on competing consoles (''Ultimate'' is exclusive to the Nintendo Switch, while ''Jump Force'' instead was released on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/XboxOne with no set release on the Switch itself at the time, until 2020 when it would end up coming to the Switch). Both of them featured characters from ''Franchise/DragonQuest'' in their rosters.

** With ''VideoGame/NickelodeonAllStarBrawl'', due to both games being {{Massive Multiplayer Crossover}}s, in ''NASB''[='=]s case featuring Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} characters, both games being {{Platform Fighter}}s, and both are available for the Nintendo Switch. Unlike ''Ultimate'', ''Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl'' is also available on its competing consoles, UsefulNotes/XBoxOne, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/PlayStation5.

* NewbieBoom: As a running theme among first-party titles to the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, this game brought in a whole ton of fans that had never played a ''Smash Bros.'' game before due to the hype train surrounding it before release and the Switch's install base, which has led to the game slowly selling ''Brawl''[='=]s lifetime sales in a month. This has led to a lot of people experiencing many of the things that ''for 3DS/Wii U'' introduced. The boom was especially apparent in Japan, where the series had definitely been popular [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff but not nearly as popular as it is in North America]]; ''Ultimate'' managed to outsell the lifetime sales of the previous Japanese best-seller (''for 3DS'' at about 2.5 million) in a bit over a month.

** ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' is the only series that lacks sourced music. It’s been speculated that it’s either due to distribution rights not being owned by Nintendo or the sampling used in some of the game’s music.

** He also declared that ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' was popular with the composers as well, and one person, Takeshi Kuramochi, single-handedly swelled the library of ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' remixes.

** Creator/IkueOtani voices both Pikachu (in all regions) and Morgana (in Japanese).
** Billy Bob Thompson now voices the male Pokémon Trainer, as well as Greninja.

** The music from ''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX'' isn't owned by Nintendo, so it would require them to licenese it. This is likely the reason why fan favorites like "Black Tar" and "Uncontrollable" were excluded from this game.

* ExiledFromContinuity: Presumably due to legal reasons (and most of them not originating from video games), other than Sakurai namedropping Maleficent during the presentation to explain Hollow Bastion’s history, some brief gameplay footage and Sora’s keychain still being a Mickey Mouse emblem, no other Creator/{{Disney}} characters or indica appear in the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' DLC proper. Disney characters are even removed from the stained glass in Dive to the Heart.

** Ditto was originally supposed to implemented as a Poké Ball Pokémon as far back as ''Melee'', but hardware limitations prevented it from being used. Ditto was finally implemented once the Switch had the processing power to have it transform into a duplicate AI partner of the player.

** When round #10 of the Mii fighter costumes releashed, Nintendo of Europe subtly mentions that this round features Dante. This is a reference to the "Featuring Dante from the ''Devil May Cry''" meme from ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne''.

** Creator/MakikoOhmoto is once again Kirby (in all regions), Ness (in all regions), and Viridi (in Japanese).

** Creator/TravisWillingham reprises his roles as [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Knuckles]] and [[Franchise/StreetFighter Guile]], albeit through voice clips for most of them.

** In both English and Japanese respectively, Creator/MatthewMercer and Creator/TomokazuSugita voice [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Chrom]] and [[VideoGame/Persona5 Yusuke Kitagawa]]. As a nod to this, Yusuke's spirit battle has you battle Chrom.

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** One of Mythra's taunts has her say "Think you can take me?" This is a refernece a memorable line that the Ardanian soliders say in ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2''.

* CreatorBacklash: Tetsuya Nomura reveals it was him instead of Disney who was against adding Sora as a character in ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'', as he felt it would go against the lore of ''Franchise/KingdomHearts''. However, he mentions he was pleased with the positive reception Sora received upon his inclusion.

** The Hero from ''VideoGame/DragonQuestXI'' is also not dubbed despite having a prior English voice actor, Rasmus Hardiker. However, it's less of a big deal in his case since [[NonDubbedGrunts his only vocalizations are grunts.]]

** One of the reasons why [[MsFanservice Mai]] [[BuxomIsBetter Shiranui]] wasn't included with the rest of the SNK cameos was because CERO's (Japan's equivalent of the ESRB) restrictions meant she couldn't be included in a game rated for all ages unless her outfit and appearance was toned down, which Sakurai wasn't willing to do.

** Microsoft listed Nintendo's E3 2019 Direct on their E3 2019 schedule, cluing people in that something pertaining to them would be revealed in the Direct, which turned out to be Banjo & Kazooie in ''Smash''.

* [[RelationshipVoiceActor/SuperSmashBrosUltimate Relationship Voice Actor]]