From Sakurai - There will be NO Downloadable Content!

[Kokichi]

I'm at the GDC today and I went to his session (I'll post about it later but nothing really that interesting was talked about). However, after the tournament I went up to him before he left and asked in Japanese if there'd be future downloadable content. He said that since the Wii doesn't have a harddrive, there will be no downloadable content. Even if people think you can do it with SD cards or whatever, that doesn't seem to be the case - he was very certain in his answer.

That is all.

 

[JoshuaAmaron]

Well, alright then. Cheers folks.

 

[Kittah4]

Whee. And thus the hatchet is buried. Oh well, I guess theres always next decade.

 

[Flaming Dragon Wang]

Hear that sound? That distant crushing noise?

That's the noise of a thousand overexpectant hearts breaking simultaneously.

The moral of the story is don't set your expectations too high.

 

[ChronoBound]

Sakurai's explanation is bunk. It was announced today by the director of Wii Ware that future Wii games will get DLC. You should have asked him why Mewtwo & Roy were cut.

 

[JoshuaAmaron]

Sakurai's explanation is bunk. It was announced today by the director of Wii Ware that future Wii games will get DLC. You should have asked him why Mewtwo & Roy were cut.

Does this mean Brawl will though? I dunno... Perhaps? We'll just have to wait and see.

 

[billywill]

Arg uh heart failure...uh...arg...need...D....L...C

 

[tirkaro]

sakurai must feel like an idiot now

 

[Demon Kirby]

Does this mean Brawl will though?

No.

Spoiler

10characters

 

[DarkShadowRage]

Nice... :D

 

[SomeRandomGuy]

Nice... :D

Be quiet you...

anyways, good to hear the spam will end.

 

[Chaosblade77]

Hear that sound? That distant crushing noise?

That's the noise of a thousand overexpectant hearts breaking simultaneously.

The moral of the story is don't set your expectations too high.

There were hearts left to break?

Sakurai's explanation is bunk. It was announced today by the director of Wii Ware that future Wii games will get DLC. You should have asked him why Mewtwo & Roy were cut.

Mewtwo at least. I figure it's fairly safe to say that Roy was removed because he was created as a clone character in the first place and used to promote his game. Roy didn't really have much place in Brawl compared to Ike, who is more popular and from a more recent game.

That's just my take on it though, I didn't really see a reason to keep Roy.

 

[ChronoBound]

sakurai must feel like an idiot now

No, if anything he is feeling that he should have put more Landmasters in the game.

Seriously, I think the reason Mewtwo & Roy were cut was due to the way he had the character selection screen set up.

 

[Sin14]

i still want to believe there is a chance but there are so many things against it.

 

[DarkShadowRage]

Be quiet you...

anyways, good to hear the spam will end.

You must recover?

 

[SomeRandomGuy]

You must recover?

What are you talking about, I knew DLC was gone for a while.

 

[Thino]

end of DLC threads lol

 

[Rash]

Yeah, DLC is confirmed for Wii. So they can technically put stuff on Wii without it needing a harddrive.

I still don't know if there would be enough space for extra Brawl characters, however. And even if DLC is confirmed, Brawl in its current form can't use it. The game would need to be patched heavily, and I don't think Nintendo's willing to put forth that kind of effort.

 

[SomeRandomGuy]

But the complaint threads might come back.

 

[Chaosblade77]

end of DLC threads lol

And the rise of a hundred complaint threads, this will just be another addition to their list.

"WAAAH BRAWL DOES NOT HAVE DLC AND OTHER WII GAMES WILL"

 

[Starphoenix]

Well good to here it is all over... But just to keep peoples false (and ignorant) hope alive.

Nintendo could always add a Smash Bros DLC patch later on down the road... >_> *runs*

 

[Kittah4]

There were hearts left to break?


Mewtwo at least. I figure it's fairly safe to say that Roy was removed because he was created as a clone character in the first place and used to promote his game. Roy didn't really have much place in Brawl compared to Ike, who is more popular and from a more recent game.

That's just my take on it though, I didn't really see a reason to keep Roy.

There wasn't much reason to keep Falco in, either. He still reeks of clonishness. And Ganondorf? You're telling me after seven years and at least three games to draw moves from (WW, TP, OOT), he's still almost more similar to Falcon than Falco is to Fox?

Yeah if I knew Japanese I'd have some things to ask him, alright.

 

[DarkShadowRage]

What are you talking about, I knew DLC was gone for a while.

Chill man, no harm, no harm just pokin fun

 

[MookieRah]

Seriously, I think the reason Mewtwo & Roy were cut was due to the way he had the character selection screen set up.

What? You can't be serious... You are saying they were cut because of the character selection screen? Surely you would realize that they would take into account the characters in the game first THEN make a desirable character selection screen. It's just not logical to think that the character select screen had any influence over what characters were in and out...

 

[tirkaro]

No, if anything he is feeling that he should have put more Landmasters in the game.

Seriously, I think the reason Mewtwo & Roy were cut was due to the way he had the character selection screen set up.

nah. The char selection screen setup is way too minor of an issue to warrant removal of characters.

Well, hopefully brawl could pull a GHIII, and get up some DLC late since we know that DLC is indeed possible with the wii.....but if DLC support works how I think it works, then that will most likely just be a pipe dream

 

[Kuroneko]

Seems that rumor about NA Brawl having Roy and Mewtwo may be slightly false as a result. Previous poster said NA Brawl will have Roy + Mewtwo, while Japanese Brawl would have them for download. Most people shot down that idea anyways, I know I did.

 

[Starphoenix]

Seems that rumor about NA Brawl having Roy and Mewtwo may be slightly false as a result. Previous poster said NA Brawl will have Roy + Mewtwo, while Japanese Brawl would have them for download. Most people shot down that idea anyways, I know I did.

Yes, what will come of that now, well I wonder how he will explain this?

 

[Chaosblade77]

What? You can't be serious... You are saying they were cut because of the character selection screen? Surely you would realize that they would take into account the characters in the game first THEN make a desirable character selection screen. It's just not logical to think that the character select screen had any influence over what characters were in and out...

Especially since Sakurai said today that the characters were decided upon in the planning stages, and some of the planned characters didn't make it (seemingly Geno, but we don't know for sure).

 

[Demon Kirby]

What? You can't be serious... You are saying they were cut because of the character selection screen? Surely you would realize that they would take into account the characters in the game first THEN make a desirable character selection screen. It's just not logical to think that the character select screen had any influence over what characters were in and out...

Nah dude. 'skrai loves perfect rectangles and wouldn't want to butcher it.

Spoiler

I'm kidding.

Off to play Metroid Prime 3.

 

[Sin14]

i'm with you there tirkaro

 

[Sin14]

nah. The char selection screen setup is way too minor of an issue to warrant removal of characters.

Well, hopefully brawl could pull a GHIII, and get up some DLC late since we know that DLC is indeed possible with the wii.....but if DLC support works how I think it works, then that will most likely just be a pipe dream

i hope so too.

 

[Whiteface]

WOW.... now all thats left is for us to enjoy the game

 

[OnyxVulpine]

Cool, you got to speak to Sakurai.

Game almost out soon? What else could be going good :3

-Onyx

 

[tirkaro]

WOW.... now all thats left is for us to enjoy the game

I can't enjoy the game without mewtwo and roy ;_;

 

[firedragon_jing]

His excuse of no HDD is the lamest thing ever, how would other games be getting DLC if they needed HDDs? So either Nintendo's lying or Sakurai is, I'm going with Sakurai. You should have asked him that.

Plus space can't really be an issue, heck if Square was able to fit a good looking Final Fantasy game with character, sounds, environments, animations, etc into 40MB, he could defiantly find a way to pack a few characters and stages into packs that could easily fit on the Wii's small flash memory...

 

[Luke Groundwalker]

With all due respects, does Sakurai NOT know that DLC was JUST announced at the same event or something?

He makes it seem like its impossible, even though it's clearly not even before the announcement.

This is one thing that bothers me about this whole thing with Sakurai saying there's no DLC for Brawl. Why would an experienced developer not know something as simple as the Wii's capabilities of DLC? Or, hell, he should've known the plans for it in the first place, so what's the deal?

 

[Flaming Dragon Wang]

With all due respects, does Sakurai NOT know that DLC was JUST announced at the same event or something?

He makes it seem like its impossible, even though it's clearly not even before the announcement.

This is one thing that bothers me about this whole thing with Sakurai saying there's no DLC for Brawl. Why would an experienced developer not know something as simple as the Wii's capabilities of DLC? Or, hell, he should've known the plans for it in the first place, so what's the deal?

Something has to have been lost in translation. He obviously knows that Nintendo is incorporating DLC. Are you completely sure you know fluent Japanese, OP?

 

[Deleted member]

Hear that sound? That distant crushing noise?

That's the noise of a thousand overexpectant hearts breaking simultaneously.

The moral of the story is don't set your expectations too high.

T'was louder when the final roster was revealed.

 

[Luke Groundwalker]

Something has to have been lost in translation. He obviously knows that Nintendo is incorporating DLC. Are you completely sure you know fluent Japanese, OP?

Maybe, while another possibility is that he might not know at all.

Remember the Sega Saturn's release? MOST developers and companies did not know about the surprise release and was kept secret from them.

 

[firedragon_jing]

His excuse of no HDD is the lamest thing ever, how would other games be getting DLC if they needed HDDs? So either Nintendo's lying or Sakurai is, I'm going with Sakurai. You should have asked him that.

Plus space can't really be an issue, heck if Square was able to fit a good looking Final Fantasy game with character, sounds, environments, animations, etc into 40MB, he could defiantly find a way to pack a few characters and stages into packs that could easily fit on the Wii's small flash memory...