No. 6 was already delayed. 4.5 months to reveal *ONE* character is really, really dumb. They'd want to frontload their reveals, not backload them, especially when the latter half may be impacted depending on how long Corona lasts for.
Unless you want to call Sakurai a liar, he's already said stuff won't be delayed. While latter-half stuff could be impacted, 6-8 I do not see being delayed.
I wouldn't be surprised if the trailer was done for a bit already. That's not something that needs constant tweaking (and even updating after it's finished) as you design it like the actual character does.
How do you know? You're saying this like it's a guaranteed fact, but in truth, you have no idea how soon they finish their trailers, and it's totally possible another character can get a Terry, Byleth, or Joker-like trailer, which I can't imagine taking nearly as long as, say, Hero taking. You're basing this off nothing but your own assumptions.
Again, you have no idea. While I'm not confident in seeing #8 revealed, I am in #7, but there's more than a 0% chance of seeing #8.
Exactly, not to mention we could very well get 0 CG trailers this time around. Where does it say that we even need CG trailers? Everyone loves em, sure, but there's nothing stating that they're a requirement for character reveals, especially when 3 out of 5 FP1 characters didn't get even a big fatty CG trailer, and 1 of those 2 that did got a heavily-reused assets one.
First of all I'm not suggesting that they'll delay the reveal of character 7 by that long. In fact, I'm not even suggesting it's likely that they'll delay the character 7, but it's just a scenario that considers some thought with the current situation of the world. Besides reveal does not equal release. For example, lets say character 7 is planned for a late July or August release, and lets say in a hypothetical scenario the trailer is 80-90% done by the time the ARMS presentation is scheduled, then in that scenario it's completely fair to suggest delaying the reveal of 7 from the original ARMS presentation to a separate day before release. You don't delay the release of the fighter, just the reveal; and a month at most.
I'm pretty sure Sakurai stated that development is going smoothly for the Smash team. I also remember reading a interview where Sakurai stated that deciding the reveal dates/release of the DLC is more on the shoulders of Nintendo. I never remember reading "stuff won't be delayed", but I may be mistaken.
I wouldn't be surprised if a potential ARMS trailer was done/near done by the time March mini rolled around. For whoever character 7 is, I wouldn't be surprised if that trailer was being worked on while the pandemic was taking place; I have 0 clue how much of them was done %-wise, but that doesn't change the fact that chances are development did slow down on that trailer, I still think they'll have it done by ARMS presentation but it's a possibility that they may need 1-2 weeks after the original planned completion date due to the Coronavirus messing up their plans. I admit that I was too harsh by stating things like Character 8 trailer is guaranteed to not have started development, because the better word is still unlikely. Most people here expect character 8 to be a fall release, and even I can't picture it coming earlier than September in terms of release. Usually, there has always been a September direct (but obviously who knows this year), so it was likely that 8 would be revealed there; with how secretive Smash is, my thoughts are that they do these trailers not too far in advance (to reduce any unwanted leaks) but that's just my theory.
On top of that a ton of professional voice acting studios in Japan have been closed from April and they've recently started opening back up again. So if 7 or 8 have a good amount of voice acting in their trailers, then they would have to be recorded well in advance or after the professional studios reopen (unless they can do it from home).
TL;DR: I'm not suggesting any character will be delayed. I'm suggesting some reveals
may be delayed, but the releases of the character should still be on time. Obviously, I still think ARMS and 7 are being revealed on the same day (but not 8, I don't agree with anyone who thinks 8 will be revealed with them), just that we should keep an open mind that there is a literal pandemic going on and 7
may not get shown off the exact same day.
It's not super unlikely either.
Remember how when the Terry presentation got revealed and it was 50mins, people thought we'd see character 5 with him. And then Nintendo had to clarify it's just Terry.
Remember how a ton of people were willing to bet on a TGA reveal, but then nothing happened. Even then I stated here that people should go in with the expectation that nothing might get revealed.
And then they dropped the Byleth presentation in the middle of January and people (including me) swore that we'd see character 5 and a character 6 revealed, and then nothing happened.
Weirder things have happened.
the byleth trailer was made around the time terry came out
The presentation was recorded at that time, but there's no guarantee that the trailer was done beforehand. It may have finished afterwards, and just edited in, in post. That said, I'm a firm believer that Byleth was originally going to be revealed at the Game Awards, but Nintendo decided to delay him (which was the right decision) to his own reveal day, so it wouldn't surprise me if the trailer was done by the time the presentation took place. Generally speaking, I personally think that trailers are finished 1-2 months before the reveal, but that's just my thoughts. I have 0 ways to back it up.
(Sadly cause Zelda it’s my favorite franchise).
