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Super Smash Bros. 4 - Reason why both versions were released at different times - GamerBen144 - 12-31-2017
According to Masahiro Sakurai, in the November 2014 issue of GameInformer, the reason why both versions of Super Smash Bros. 4 were released at different times was so that "the debugging schedules were separate from each other."