I think Sakurai is mocking us all, and might aswell be the best IRL troll since Mohammed.
I imagine his mission worked like this...
Sakurai did a lot of hard work working on Melee, making the perfect game. He was tired of it, but felt perfection. Yet, people wanted more, so he took revenge...
PLAN 1:
SAKURAI: "Everyone, we will add online mode!"
FANS: "Yay, online with many functions?"
SAKURAI: "No, LOL!"
(Laughing his a$$ off)
PLAN 2:
(As fans are most concerned about characters, Sakurai used this to his evil plan)
SAKURAI: "You can vote for who you want in Brawl!"
FANS: "Sonic and Geno!"
(Sakurai thinks)
SAKURAI: "Sonic is in!"
FANS: "Wow, the voting works! Will we have Geno?"
SAKURAI: "Maybe. You will maybe get another third party character"
(With a evil smile, Sakurai adds Geno to his block a lot of times)
(The fans are wild, seeing every chance of Geno being in Brawl)
FANS: "Wow, will we really have Geno!? IT WILL HAPPEN!"
SAKURAI: F*CKIN NO, LOL!
(Laughing his a$$ off)
PLAN 3:
(People have not played Kirby for a long time, and Sakurai is angry)
FANS: "We want Geno, Sonic, Isaac and Ridley in Brawl!"
SAKURAI: "What about a cool character like King Dedede? Some Kirby characters?"
FANS: "No thanks, we want Geno and Krystal instead!"
(Sakurai is angry, but gets his revenge...)
SAKURAI: "No Krystal or Geno... But King Dedede and Meta Knight!"
FANS: "Awww...!"
SAKURAI: "Lol, noobs!"
(Laughing his a$$ off)
PLAN 4:
(Sakurai starts rumors of downloadable characters on the internet)
FANS: "Wow! Will we get downloadable characters!? GENO"
(Sakurai could simply say 'No', but...)
SAKURAI: I don't THINK so, but it's not impossible, despise Wii's lack of such an action!"
(In the near future, fans are still drooling while waiting, Sakurai laughing his a$$ off over it)
Think what you want, but I actually think that is what happened. All that stuff can't be random.
I imagine his mission worked like this...
Sakurai did a lot of hard work working on Melee, making the perfect game. He was tired of it, but felt perfection. Yet, people wanted more, so he took revenge...
PLAN 1:
SAKURAI: "Everyone, we will add online mode!"
FANS: "Yay, online with many functions?"
SAKURAI: "No, LOL!"
(Laughing his a$$ off)
PLAN 2:
(As fans are most concerned about characters, Sakurai used this to his evil plan)
SAKURAI: "You can vote for who you want in Brawl!"
FANS: "Sonic and Geno!"
(Sakurai thinks)
SAKURAI: "Sonic is in!"
FANS: "Wow, the voting works! Will we have Geno?"
SAKURAI: "Maybe. You will maybe get another third party character"
(With a evil smile, Sakurai adds Geno to his block a lot of times)
(The fans are wild, seeing every chance of Geno being in Brawl)
FANS: "Wow, will we really have Geno!? IT WILL HAPPEN!"
SAKURAI: F*CKIN NO, LOL!
(Laughing his a$$ off)
PLAN 3:
(People have not played Kirby for a long time, and Sakurai is angry)
FANS: "We want Geno, Sonic, Isaac and Ridley in Brawl!"
SAKURAI: "What about a cool character like King Dedede? Some Kirby characters?"
FANS: "No thanks, we want Geno and Krystal instead!"
(Sakurai is angry, but gets his revenge...)
SAKURAI: "No Krystal or Geno... But King Dedede and Meta Knight!"
FANS: "Awww...!"
SAKURAI: "Lol, noobs!"
(Laughing his a$$ off)
PLAN 4:
(Sakurai starts rumors of downloadable characters on the internet)
FANS: "Wow! Will we get downloadable characters!? GENO"
(Sakurai could simply say 'No', but...)
SAKURAI: I don't THINK so, but it's not impossible, despise Wii's lack of such an action!"
(In the near future, fans are still drooling while waiting, Sakurai laughing his a$$ off over it)
Think what you want, but I actually think that is what happened. All that stuff can't be random.