Has sakurai made any official Statements about DLC?

[Kain6th]

About anything in particular about it? With an actual quote?

Sorry if this has been asked already, and feel free to lock and direct me to it if so

 

[Zzuxon]

Right after e3 2013, he said that he hadn't decided either way whether or not to do DLC.

 

[Ganreizu]

Right after e3 2013, he said that he hadn't decided either way whether or not to do DLC.

He said he wasn't opposed, but that "you can consider it (DLC) out of the cards for now".

 

[KaZe_DaRKWIND]

It's something that people only started really considering after Mario Kart got DLC. So it's guesswork rather than something concrete.

 

[Raijinken]

I interpreted his statements as "We don't plan on cutting things for DLC, and aren't working on any at the moment, but it's not out of the question and we are not opposed to the idea."

 

[DoctorDub]

Yeah. It was one of those things like "Ehhh dunno." but he did say something about not wanting to do DLC as much and that he'd rather release a full game. He wasn't totally against the idea though. I feel it's a "Show us enough support, then yeah... maybe"

 

[TroperCase]

Going by the little scraps over the last year, it seemed to start with "no.", slowly progressing to "no...?" and I can't find any recent statements.

Spoiler: rambling speculation

They're probably thinking announcing DLC before release will do more harm than good to sales. But given:

• Mario Kart has DLC
• Mario Kart didn't have announced DLC until after launch
• Smash, like Mario Kart, is one of Nintendo's flagship series
• Nintendo recently announced their shift towards "non-casual" (read: "high-paying") customers
• (assumption) the higher-ups at Nintendo have more control about what games have DLC than the game directors

I think it's pretty likely, but, like Mario Kart, a long-run thing that we won't see right away.

Hopefully if there is DLC, we won't see a bunch of shadows of DLC characters forced onto the character select screen months before they come out. Anyone enjoying that "feature" in Mario Kart?

 

[Enigma14]

If there is DLC, expect it to hit us unexpectedly a few months after Smash Wii U has been out.

 

[kaliskonig]

Yeah he only mentioned it that once but I am sure he decided to be for it in some shape or form. Completed game or not, Smash is the type of game were more is always welcome. With Nintendo's recent trend of having some sort of DLC for each of their biggest titles (minus 3D world it seems) I have high hopes for smash getting DLC. We probably won't here about it until 2-3 months after the Wii U release though depending on how big the DLC is going to be if there is any.

 

[Enigma14]

So the following will be a bit harder to answer but given that Sakurai reports of getting 4 hours of sleep a night just to work -to the point of practically living at the office-, his health and his personal work ethic he will take a month or two off. Following that its the matter of needing to balance and test additional characters and stages. Do you think he will pursue it?