To those of you questioning Ryu in smash due to his lack of association with the big N, I'd like to remind you of one thing:

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Hardly any association, aside from his older games from the 90's. And before you say "he was in a remake on 3DS!", let's not forget Ryu was in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom on Wii. Just about as relevant.
And as for Roy... Sakurai just threw him in for free. Probably won't even change him at all, aside from the visual facelift.
Honestly I have no attachment to either character, but I'm not bothered that they're in. I'm just glad to have more fighters at all.