Could there somehow be a pattern to the Brawl updates?

[GreenKirby]

Koopaul from DKVine (seems like DKVine members are noticing little things about Brawl as well lol) Has been keeping track of the updates. And here's what he has so far:

Character Updates Per Week
Week 1: Mario, Link, Pit
Week 2: Pikachu, Kirby
Week 3: None
Week 4: Fox, Samus
Week 5: Wario
Week 6: Zelda
Week 7: Bowser
Week 8: Donkey Kong
Week 9

PATTERN: They update with one character a week now

Gameplay Updates Per Week
Week 1: How To Play
Week 2: What is a Final Smash?, Moving and Shooting
Week 3: You must recover!
Week 4: None
Week 5: None
Week 6: None
Week 7: Smash Attacks
Week 8: Standard Combos
Week 9

PATTERN: They update three weeks in a row, don't update for three weeks, and start again.

Mode Updates Per Week
Week 1: None
Week 2: None
Week 3: Four Kinds of Control
Week 4: None
Week 5: None
Week 6: Names
Week 7: None
Week 8: None
Week 9

PATTERN: Every three weeks they'll update.

Stage Updates Per Week
Week 1: Battlefield
Week 2: Delfino Plaza
Week 3: None
Week 4: Yoshi's Island
Week 5: Lylat Cruise
Week 6: None
Week 7: Bridge of Eldin
Week 8: Smashville
Week 9:

PATTERN: They update two weeks in a row, rest one, and start again.

Item Updates Per Week
Week 1: Gooey Bomb
Week 2: Cracker Launcher
Week 3: What are Pokeballs?, Groundon
Week 4: Crates and Barrels
Week 5: None
Week 6: Banana Peel
Week 7: What are Assist Trophies? Samurai Goro
Week 8: Bumper, Dr. Wright
Week 9: Dexoys

PATTERN: They update four weeks in a row, rest one, and start again.

Music Updates per Week
Week 1: The Musicians
Week 2: None
Week 3: Yoshi's Story: Ending
Week 4: Metroid: Boss Battle Music (Ridley Fight)
Week 5: None
Week 6: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Medley
Week 7: None
Week 8: None
Week 9: Star Fox: Space Armada

The first four weeks went- one/ none/ one/ one. The next four weeks will work in reverse none/ one/ none/ none.

According to my assumed pattern we'll be having one character, one item, one song, one mode info, and one How to Play update this week...

Now, is this for real or a huge concidence? After all, we already have the song for the week. So who would be the new character? The new item?

Is Sakurai keeping a pattern on purpose and hopes we don't notice? Or does he want us to notice.

 

[Florida]

Out of all of the spammed topics considering patterns from Sakurai's blogs, this one has got to be the best. But that doesn't mean it won't get closed by mods. But I think they should at least wait until this week is over to see if thistheory is correct.

Can you give up any patterns on notices?
Lol, just kidding with you. Interesting topic.

 

[OnyxVulpine]

Hmm wow.. some actual work put into that one. I was thinking there was no pattern.. and maybe there is no pattern its just coincidence..

My guess was item.. and I hope its an item!..

My deep theory was there was no pattern and he just releases whatever gets done on that day or recently. With different departments working on different things, some things can get done while other things are in development..

Lets see if this actually pays off and is real.

 

[maxpower1227]

The item and music updates are not patterns. Patterns repeat.

In any event, you're reading too much into this. They just release what they have and try to mix it up a bit so they don't neglect any category or dwell too much on one category. I don't expect any patterns to hold up, other than by mere coincidence

 

[Empy]

I think they just want a little bit for everyone each week. So a char for the people that just want a high grid or see their main return, how to play mostly for newbs, mode updates just barely as that's most likely what they are working on to finish, stages just every now and then to keep people anticipated (everyone that will play has a use for the stage updates), items more for the people that play with friends at home and music to please the gamemusic fans, who are quite huge in numbers (see Nobuo Uematsu his succes with his USA tour) and also a whole lot of these updates just because they don't have endless stages/chars.

 

[gnosis]

Based on this theory, next week should be... interesting.

Week 10: 1 character, 0 How 2 Play, 0 Modes, 1 stage, 0 items, 0 music.

Two updates, huh?

 

[The Hypnotist]

Great find.

 

[Florida]

Based on this theory, next week should be... interesting.

Week 10: 1 character, 0 How 2 Play, 0 Modes, 1 stage, 0 items, 0 music.

Two updates, huh?

• 1 Character
• 1 Music
• 1 Stage
• Possible Final Smash / Special Moves update
• Possible for one of the above to repeat itself

His theory seems pretty organized and complete to me.

 

[gnosis]

• 1 Character
• 1 Music
• 1 Stage
• 1 Item

The pattern for items is 4 weeks of items, then no item. Week 9 is item number 4.

The pattern for music is one, none, one one, or none, one, none one. Week 9 is the first song of the first pattern.

No music, no items.

And of the remaining two (stage and characters), according to this theory, we can't expect a repeat of either.

Thus, two updates.

Though he (and thus I) did leave out final smash and special move updates. That is your one legitimate correction.

 

[h2ownage]

I don't think there's a pattern nor do I think this week will not follow your pattern. However, you could prove me wrong.

 

[Florida]

The pattern for items is 4 weeks of items, then no item. Week 9 is item number 4.

The pattern for music is one, none, one one, or none, one, none one. Week 9 is the first song of the first pattern.

No music, no items.

And of the remaining two (stage and characters), according to this theory, we can't expect a repeat of either.

Thus, two updates.

Though he (and thus I) did leave out final smash and special move updates. That is your one legitimate correction.

Ah, you are correct. There won't be any music according to his theory.
So, it shall be:

• 1 Character
• 1 Stage
• Final Smash
• Special Moves
• Something could repeat itself?

I'm not trying to mindlessly agree with it, I can accept the errors in the patterns, but there are some other possibilities around the ones you have mentioned.

 

[gnosis]

Yeah, I understand.

is this for real or a huge concidence

Neither, really. Parts of it may stay consistent, such as the characters (considering there's only 20 weeks left before Dec. 3, if he wants to reveal them all I'd assume he'd keep at at least that pace), the infrequent game mode updates, etc.

But the parts that are just coincidental aren't 'huge' yet. Maybe in a month if it stays consistent I'll reconsider.

 

[MzNetta]

I love when I don't feel like something I notice needs an ENTIRE thread devoted to it, and I post it in another topic (a good 3 days ago) only to have someone else notice it and devote an ENTIRE thread to it.


GOOD FIND!!!!1!!

 

[Caael]

Awesome. It's not something i've seen before ( though it has been done, I just ignored them). Clever.

 

[Myst007_teh_newb]

Well, for all it's worth, today's update was an item.

I'm still skeptical about this patterns thing, though. We'll just see what happens as the week progresses.

 

[OnyxVulpine]

Yeah, so far so good. Though I'm not going to depend on it, I'll be surprised if this keeps up for a few weeks.

 

[GreenKirby]

Since they revealed Deoxys as an item, it's another part of the theory fulfilled. o.o

2 for 2 so far.

But if it's a concidence, then it was fun spectating.

 

[the grim lizard]

I think the only pattern is that Sakurai continues to own everyone with his run of deconfirmations...

 

[Phaazoid]

if the update goes as planned, then i can't wait for the game mode.

 

[maxpower1227]

Ah, you are correct. There won't be any music according to his theory.

We already got a music update for this week >_>

 

[Masque]

Hm...very interesting, my friend. You have lucked out both today and yesterday. Time will tell how the rest of the updates this week fit into your theory.

 

[beta_prime]

I'd say the character is Metaknight, and the item I have no idea. I hope he gives us a final smash or character tommorow to bring our hopes up after today's "loss".

 

[fatmactk]

This thread excites me.

Perhaps since week 10 doesn't fit the patterns it will just restart? Maybe we'll get three characters like in the first week? Here's to hoping week 9 continues to follow the pattern!

 

[maxpower1227]

So looking at the original post... seems not every week had 5 updates, huh? Week 5 seemed particularly slow.

 

[Star105]

well the pattern has one thing not mentioned(that i saw) the 15-sec movie that was shown at the E3 conference. was an update on the sight though this could be a double post.

 

[AttackstorM]

are they gonna do an update on every single item,pokemon and assist trophy? ...this can really drag on

 

[:034:]

No Special Moves and no Final Smashes. Put them in first and if you see a pattern, and it works for the coming weeks, I'll go for it.

The only ones that seem good enough for being in a pattern are the characters, stages, items and modes. You haven't quite convinced me with the rest.

 

[GaryCXJk]

Ah crap, not that nerd again. Koopaul's also the one who bothered Pixeltendo with his "zomg Nintendo is going downhill" bullcrap.

 

[smidge]

i will like to this pattern to be right, but you never know sakurai may mess it all up for us

 

[OnyxVulpine]

well the pattern has one thing not mentioned(that i saw) the 15-sec movie that was shown at the E3 conference. was an update on the sight though this could be a double post.

I think that was still considered an update but has no real category to it... Except Notice I think..

Since its the only thing under "Notices"

 

[Florida]

We already got a music update for this week >_>

If you would've actually of read the posts, you would've noticed that we were talking about Week 10.
Deoxys as an item, only proves this theory more. But it could strongly be a coincidence. We'll just have to wait and see.

 

[Ectoplasmus]

This seems quite accurate, and he has done repeats before, hasn't he? I'll stick with it until it's proven wrong.

 

[Midna]

all I've seen and been concerned about was the new character updates they've had in the last 3 weeks. (Zelda, Bowser, DK).
when I say new characters, I mean characters other than than the 10 (11 if you count ZSS & Samus as seperates) we've seen for the past year.

 

[BlueBandanaJake]

Heh, looks plausible, this pattern theory...

I always figured they just threw everything in a hat and randomly pulled each update from there...

 

[Kabyk-Greenmyst]

Well, I figured Sakurai had a method behind his madness, he always does. It's just that I didn't feel like finding the pattern behind having for say a music update after a character of didn't franchise or some such thing.

Good Job though! If this is to be closed, at least wait out the week, according to him, we still have a character, mode, and how to play to get through this week. meh, for the sake of the rest of the week, i hope he's wrong, modes and how to play's all suck, with few exceptions.

 

[lonewolfe]

O.O Awesome job finding the pattern and such, I'll definetely be looking out for a character update now.

I wonder if the pattern of updates is so complex that specific days of the week have certain updates (depending on what week/month etc...) Nah, too complex o.O

 

[chaos_Leader]

intriguing. It's only a matter of time until everyone knows if this theory holds water.

 

[Brockman5]

it seems pretty good...i've been tracking the updates too..and figured we have a new character every couple of weeks...then something new....assist trophys...

well lets see what happens 2morow...

 

[DonkeyPirate]

the videoclip update was just a bonus. since they also updated with DK.

 

[Brockman5]

well nobody could predict the notice update...since it was the first 1