Super Smash Bros. Brawl (大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズＸ, Dairantō Sumasshu Burazāzu Ekkusu, lit. "Great Melee Smash Brothers X"), often abbreviated SSBB or Brawl, is the third installment in the Super Smash Bros. series of crossover video fighting games. It is developed by Sora and published by Nintendo for the Wii console.Brawl was announced at a pre-E3 2005 press conference by Nintendo president and Chief Executive Officer Satoru Iwata. Later that night, Masahiro Sakurai, the director of the previous two games in the Super Smash Bros. series, accepted Iwata's proposal and assumed the role of director for the third installment. When development of the game began in October 2005, various second and third party Nintendo developers collaborated on Brawl at a rented Tokyo office. The game was released in Japan on January 31, 2008. After multiple delays, Brawl was released in the United States on March 9, 2008. It will be released in Australia on June 26, 2008, and in Europe on June 27, 2008.