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The only thing that makes a character deserving is how fun they would be, and Sakurai said that how fun a character would be matters more than relevance or what games a character has appeared in when he was doing the Terry presentation. That said, I am sure the latter two things is not that important to Sakurai as some people think.
It's been a consistent pattern for a long time (probably the only pattern that holds up anymore). Sakurai always tends to start with the bigger characters and end on more controversial picks. I would bet money that, that will happen in the next pass too. We'll probably start with some big third parties and fan-favorites before we go towards nicher and nicher characters to end off.
Here's the thing... If my theory is right about literally one AT promotion and one more first/second party character in DLC, that's the door slamming shut for a ton of fanbases. It was one of the things I was always afraid about when it came to a hypothetical AT promotion but that's the reality of it. Based on where we're at right now, we have a basic theory that three of the packs will be Nintendo, Square, and Namco; that's half. If you believe the Dante rumors, that's four. At most, we'd be getting two totally new companies. It's pretty realistic that we're getting one new company and, again, if Nintendo's swerving bigg'uns like Ubisoft and (theoretically) Bethesda, they must have a very particular company in mind. Double dipping is even less likely here than it was for the Fighter's Pass so once a company gets a rep, it's GG for everyone else, possibly until the next game.
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. If Doom Slayer is coming, maybe he was meant to be in the first pass but got swapped to the second when the game was delayed.
If that happened and somehow confirmed Cacomallow, that would make the waiting much more bearable.
That would have been an amusing discussion:
Considering that the Switch version has been delayed indefinitely (we know it's coming out, though we don't know when), I doubt Sakurai would push back a character to coincide with a game release.
That raises a question I’ve been wondering for a few days now. How much control does Sakurai have over the character release schedule?
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, when in February do you think the next Direct will be?
Sigh... Reggie never said that there would be new IP only. He said that they would be CHARACTERS new to the series, which Byleth technically is.
The difference is Ubisoft had content in the base game, it's still unprecedented to get Mii costumes from an unrepresented major third party developer like Bethesda.
Yeah, he also clearly says they are characters you would not anticipate being in smash brothers, don't really see how FE character #8 fits that criteria.
Sounds like it's a placeholder date. Usually when games are announced but the release date is not confirmed, retailers default to the last day of the year. The Shovel Knight amiibos were listed as 12/31/19 until they officially released earlier December.
Not really. Gomez Addams and Geno are nothing alike so it's barely an issue. Playstyle wise and aesthetically, they're incredibly different. Every Smash game except Brawl has had at least two new Mario characters and, if you count the spin-offs, Smash 64 had 4, Melee had 3, Brawl had 2, and Smash 4 had 2 and all the Koopalings and Doc being added back in. With Smash Ultimate, we currently have two, the biggest clone in Smash history and a potted plant. That said, Vincent Price and Geno would be perfectly acceptable to have.I've understood your speculation so far
The AT and Spirit promo thing makes sense, particularly together. I'd be more confident in my own speculation if they were revealed together. Sort of Sakurai's biggest middle finger to two annoying fan rules in one fell swoop.
I hope for Shantae most of all when it comes to Indie characters, so I hope we both get our most wanted characters in.
What are you talking about? Hero and Banjo are already out!
It¨s easy to say that now that Byleth is revealed. Pretty much no one believed Byleth was gonna be one of these five since Rex & Pyra were not able to appear in the base game. It wasn¨t until they announced more DLC that people started to wonder if they would join the fray in the second wave
It's possible, but I'm not sure they would print that unless it was in the ballpark or something like they did for FP1.
That's true. I myself admit I was completely dumbfounded, I already knew that Sakurai had a bias for Fire Emblem, but I never imagined it would be this shameless.
Who do you think or heard might be that 1st/2nd party character?
Granted... this comes from someone that is stooked for Byleth... but to quote Stealth from twitter
It is possible he didn't knew about Byelth yet since he was only weeks away from announcing his retirement and Sakurai did say there are lots at Nintendo who didn't know who CP5 was.
On a scale of yes to yes, do you want Geno playable,
Indeed while was the wrong character it was still legit
I see a new generation pokemon as very likely now (or unlikely, a new trainer) 
