This guy only just started working at Mojang in the last week of March. I'm not sure how it works over at Mojang but I doubt they'd let a rookie know vital info like this. Even if odds are that Steve isn't playable I'm doubting the accuracy of this specific outlet.
This is the way I see it:
Even if he DID only just recently start working there, it still doesn't change the fact that we've had
TWO people representing Minecraft and the company openly shoot down Steve
Aubrey's position is a Senior Manager, as
Atmoz
pointed out in a previous post, she is
absolutely the kind of person who would know about a deal to get Minecraft in Smash. If anyone, she'd be the person putting out a gag-order to
NOT talk about it.
She even
KNOWS this is a hot-button issue for Smash Bros and yet she's throwing her hat in the ring and engaging with us!
Consider this:
Halo and Cuphead's developers have been active on Twitter about how much they
WANT to be a part of Super Smash Bros. They
WANT to be a part of a fighters list that is already decided and
finalized... they're NOT in...
We had the Senior Manager openly state in a previous tweet that Steve is
not important enough to get in
Rare and Microsoft on the subject of Banjo though?
Silence. When a company wants to keep a secret... they usually just shut up about it, and boy has some of Minecraft's folks been noisy lately.
There
IS the chance that they're lying in order to maintain a big surprise... but I kind of doubt it? The only dev who really did that was Kamiya in regards to Bayonetta joining Smash... but he's
KNOWN for being eccentric on Twitter
We can debate all we want on whether this kills Steve outright... but you can't deny this is a good sign in our favor