Okay... here is what Sakurai has said..
“It isn’t a matter of ‘if the next game has 50 characters, that’ll be enough.’ There is a certain charm to games that have huge casts of playable characters, but they tend to have issues with game balance and it becomes very difficult to fine-tune each character and have them all feel distinctive…. In terms of quantity, we’ve probably already reached the limit of what’s feasible. I think a change of direction may be what’s needed.”
He also said this..
“I can answer that: no. We don’t have the time to fully recreate every single character who’s been in Smash Bros at this point. Adding new characters is not a simple addition – it’s really multiplication. The amount of work, adding a character is multiplied and becomes bigger and bigger as you go. We can’t because of the amount of work it takes. However, I do believe I understand that each character has its own set of fans out there who really like that character. So we’re not going to cut characters out of the way, we’re going to put in as many characters as we can, we really want to do that, because it’s good for the fans and good for all of us. But in the event that we do have to cut some characters, I’d like to apologise in advance to those fans.”
With this I think the leak is all we are getting.. heck before the leak was pretty much confirmed at this year's E3 I was sure we were only getting 44 characters or less. Now, I am hopeful for 47 + random. But I cannot see it going beyond 50, at least a first.. maybe with DLC... but even then I would only expect past characters.. like Roy, Mewtwo.. and Lucas if he is cut.. nobody brand new.
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