It has finally been confirmed! Many were in doubt but today's Smash Bros. DOJO!! update has the information on WiFi play. It does mention, however, that the closer you are to someone the better the connection it will be. Not a big surprise there as a Japanese player may not have a smooth game with an American player.

Anyway here is the main menu for WiFi Play.

As you can see there are two options. You can play with your registered friends or you can play with any random people online.

When trying to play with friends, you can check who is online and see if they want to battle.

You have some customizable options too such as your gamer icon when playing online.

You can also send short messages to each other while battling. These are used with your taunts by pressing on the + Control Pad. Notice that you can see each other's names above your respective fighters.

Things will be a little different when playing "with anyone" (the second option on the menu). In this mode, you do not know who you are playing with and cannot see their name. Of course they cannot see your name either. Furthermore, you cannot send messages to each other and there are no win/loss records kept for this mode. So just have fun playing with random people.

A nice little extra is that you can practice on a punching bag while you wait for a battle to begin.

Nintendo promises more services that make use of WiFi but want to elaborate on those services at a later time as they gradually reveal more game modes.

Well if this doesn't cement your interest in this game then nothing will.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl is scheduled to hit store shelves Dec. 3rd for an MSRP of $49.99