Super Smash Bros 4 Roster: Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, and MegaMan are a 'Co-Stars' Said Nintendo Exec

By Justin Sarachik, Christian Post Reporter Monday, October 07, 2013

Super Smash Bros 4 is taking arguably three of the biggest video game characters of all time, Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, and MegaMan, and putting in the same game as "co-stars" said a Nintendo executive.

According to Nintendo Everything Masahiro Sakurai posted about the role of the three stars in the next game, and seemed just as excited about them as the gaming community.

"The trio as joint co-stars. Who is the strongest of them all?!" he pondered through the Wii U's Miiverse.

Some consider Mario, Sonic, and MegaMan to be the "trinity" of gaming as these three have been waging their own wars on different consoles and in sales for over 20 years. Now for the first time, gamers can actually have them duke it out.

See the three on screen together here.

During last week's Nintendo Direct broadcast, President Satoru Iwata made the confirmation that Sonic would be joining the fracas of Super Smash Bros 4.

This will be Sonic's second time in the Smash Bros series after first appearing in Super Smash Brawl for the Wii.

Both Sonic and MegaMan are in the game as the only third party non-Nintendo characters. In the last installment of the game, Solid Snake from

Metal Gear Solid was with Sonic as the other non-Nintendo representative. There has been no word as to whether Snake will be coming back to the series.

The characters confirmed for the game so far are: Mario, Luigi, Link, Samus, Kirby, Fox, Pikachu, Bowser, Donkey Kong, Pit, Olimar, Toon Link, Princess Peach, Sonic the Hedgehog, MegaMan, Wii Fit Trainer, and the Villager.

The first game, Super Smash Bros, came out for the Nintendo 64. The second, Melee, was for the Gamecube, and the third, Brawl, for the Wii.