Japanese gaming company Nintendo has ended its service for hosting the online multiplayer mode of its fighting game “Super Smash Bros 4” on the Wii U effective on September 30.
The online multiplayer mode of “Super Smash Bros 4” is called “Regular Tourneys” and after September 30, it will no longer be available.
There will be no replacement at all to the mode so if “Super Smash Bros 4” players decide to access it, they will just see a blank spot in place of the online multiplayer mode, reports Siliconera.
The “Regular Tourneys” of “Super Smash Bros 4” are pretty much like the Tourney modes from past “Smash Bros” games, except that they are all run by Nintendo.
The “Normal Tourney” feature, which lets the community organize their own tournaments, will still be available online.
Another championship for ZeRo
Chilean Gonzalo Barrios, who is known in the gaming community of the fighting game “Super Smash Bros 4” as ZeRo, has come out as the champion of the Smash 4 singles game during the Shine 2016 event held late in August.
He won the “Super Smash Bros 4” Wii U singles leg of Shine 2016 as a member of the Team SoloMid by sweeping Panda Global’s Eric ‘ESAM’ Lew 3-0 in the grand finals.
The Chilean gamer took Battlefield, a level on “Super Smash Bros 4,” without losing stock on his signature Diddy and did the same on Dream Land 64.
ESAM, on the other hand, switched from Pikachu to Samus on Duck Hunt and took a single stock, but ZeRo won the stage handily for a nearly flawless 3-0 sweep over his opponent who appears stunned.
The victory is the eighth Smash 4 singles title for ZeRo that he has earned just for this year even after suffering a finger injury recently.
The game’s top players
After winning the Smash 4 singles title in Shine 2016, ZeRo worked on his personal tier list project for the “Super Smash Bros 4” on the Wii U by coming up with the game’s top players in order of strength as sort of tips to other gamers.
He previously attempted to come up with a list but it was interrupted. His latest attempt was successful this time as there was no patch released by Nintendo that previously interrupted his previous tries.
The gamer comes out with two videos. The first one shows him detailing the strengths and weakness of the remaining top 20 characters of “Super Smash Bros 4” when the game is played on the Wii U, notes Event Hubs.
Critics have noted that ZeRo’s list is extremely different from Smashboard v2.0 tier list, so the second video shows the gamer going into great detail explaining why he feels each character he listed deserves the position that he assigned them.
ZeRo’s tier list certainly has a few surprise placements but the Chilean gamer justified all their inclusion with his video explanations.
Not too long ago, Nintendo was getting a beating from Sony and Microsoft in terms of gaming consoles. Although it was doing a lot better in the game development category, it was having a tough time overcoming the advantage of its two major competitors in the gaming console market, particularly in the US.
Meanwhile, it seems that Nintendo has picked up the pieces of its disappointing years and is now making a complete turnaround both in the video game and console sales performance.
As a matter of fact, Nintendo recently announced some outstanding sales statistics for the month of June in the US, anchored on the excellent showing of the popular fighting game “Super Smash Bros 4.”