I noticed that too. From what I've seen, the physics seems to be the same of Ultra Smash, Swifite Luma already spotted the aniamtions and various assets reused from that game, I don't know much about the rest as from what I've seen the demo was of Classic Tennis Simple. My guess is that they'll reuse as much as possible from Ultra Smash, while adding new things. We already saw the tennis wear and story mode, the addition of those gauges and the possibility of breaking rackets means that even in the gameplay segment something was added.LeftyGreenMario said:I hope this game delivers given this game's development cycle seems short.
See, Sports Superstars was released just last year in Spring. It's developed by Camelot (and Namco). Assuming Camelot isn't already working on this game during Sports Superstars development, that'll mean this game got around only one year of development. Perhaps Ultra Smash gave it a boost, though, so if it's like Ultra Smash, but with more stuff, would make a little more sense for the short development time. Either way, that spring release a year after Mario Sports Superstars, I hope, isn't ultimately a bad thing.
In terms of roster, I wonder if beside Ultra Smash they'll add the characters from Mario Sports Superstars, reusing some animations from that game (or if this really happens, should we say that MSS had the animations already prepared for Mario Tennis Aces readapted for the 3DS?).
Anyway, much depends on how smart they are in reusing existing assets while adding new things. I think 1 year is just too little to develop a game from the ground-up, just think about what happened with Mario Kart 8 which turned out to be heavily based on Mario Kart 7 and yet after 3 years of development it had a delay and ultimately needed quite a bit of post release development to have an "almost fixed" roster (according to Mario Kart Wii standards) and a proper Battle Mode.