Papapaint
Just your average kind of Luigi.
Regardless of the details, it was still delayed.Correction, it was originally announced as a launch title in MAY 05 when Nintendo officially stated that there was going to be a SSB3. . . . and this happened before Sakurai even agreed to make the game.
As Sakurai said, they were probly just going to throw in some new characters and add Online if he didn't agree to work on it. . . so by all means SSB3 could have been a launch title if that happened.
So heres the deal, the game hadn't started development at all at that point in time and Sakurai wanted to do more than just "add characters and online play" so SSB3 wasn't a launch title. In fact, thats not a delay seeing as A) we didn't even know when the Wii was to come out at that time and B) They weren't even working on the game at the time. . . .(how do you delay a game that isn't even in the works?)
And Sakurai has said that it's coming to Japan (at the least) in 07. . .thats the only date we have and he seemed to be very much sure of this.
*shrug