Official Newcomer/DLC Speculation Discussion

[Schnee117]

I'm way too impatient to sit through a boring award show, regardless of cool new game releases,


I'll just wait for the (lack of)kaboom in this thread.

Not Kaboom
Baboom

 

[Megadoomer]

Good luck everyone may the best character get in!

But Dedede's already in the game...

 

[[Maple]]

Call it now: Chosen Undead or Monster Hunter

Mark my words

 

[Will]

dont you hate it when shows dont start on the time they promise that they will

 

[NonSpecificGuy]

Welcome back!

 

[cmbsfm]

Now to wait for the next direct.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

3H got twice as many awards as Smash so Edelgard is FP5

 

[Thewafflemaker2000]

Why was this thread locked?

 

[andree123]

Thank god, but I am hoping they should announce 2 DLC fighters at the next direct.

 

[SneakyLink]

Now we play the waiting game... again.

Who is ready for 5 to be someone no one called?

 

[andree123]

Why was this thread locked?

The TGAs.

 

[Thewafflemaker2000]

I know if they didn’t announce a character they should have a direct soon even more so because they jist had a nindie direct recently

 

[Cutie Gwen]

Why was this thread locked?

To make the Game Awards thread feel less lonely

 

[EricTheGamerman]

Poor Smash, I was really pulling for it to get Game of the Year. I mean I understand, Sekiro is quite the game and Miyazaki is someone they should have recognized a long time ago with a GOTY... but yeah...

 

[Deleted member]

3H got twice as many awards as Smash so Edelgard is FP5

If Three Houses is so good, why wasn't it Game of the Year!? That being said, Smash Bros for Sekiro.

 

[Rie Sonomura]

You think next week will announce a direct? Yes I know there hasn’t been a direct in December since 2015. But they can break norms

 

[Cutie Gwen]

If Three Houses is so good, why wasn't it Game of the Year!? That being said, Smash Bros for Sekiro.

But it WAS Game of the Year! Just not the predetermined choices by wrinkly old ****s

 

[Cosmic77]

Thread got locked right before I could make a joke about Mother 3 being announced.

Coincidence?

 

[Deleted member]

You think next week will announce a direct? Yes I know there hasn’t been a direct in December since 2015. But they can break norms

Simply put, we have no reason to believe a direct will be announced in January. I lean towards nay, but that's just me being pessimistic.

We can at least assume February is the latest month. Why? Because the DLC Wave 1 is scheduled to end at Feb 2020.

 

[Schnee117]

It's Friday the 13th so say hello to my good friend Jason Voorhees

 

[Deleted member]

But it WAS Game of the Year! Just not the predetermined choices by wrinkly old ****s

Sakurai: "Ah. Now that Smash Bros Ultimate is finished developing, I can finally retire from this mortal coil and enjoy the fruits of my labor."
Nintendo: "Okay, but the fans want a Fire Emblem fighter."
Sakurai: "****."

 

[SKX31]

We're back?!

We're back!

Sakurai: "Ah. Now that Smash Bros Ultimate is finished developing, I can finally retire from this mortal coil and enjoy the fruits of my labor."
Nintendo: "Okay, but the fans want a Fire Emblem fighter."
Sakurai: "****."

*Sakurai decides to make the 3H characters essentially Fire Emblem Pokemon Trainer, with Byleth in the background switching between Claude, Dmitri and Edelgard. Just to protest.*

"Never ask me for anything ever again."

 

[Wigglerman]

Simply put, we have no reason to believe a direct will be announced in January. I lean towards nay, but that's just me being pessimistic.

We can at least assume February is the latest month. Why? Because the DLC Wave 1 is scheduled to end at Feb 2020.

But they've been way ahead of schedule. They've been pushing characters every other month when it seemed they intended to drag them out longer. Perhaps due to knowing they would be doing more than this pass and had no more need to drag it out as much. It'd feel silly to make us wait even longer than normal just to fit a schedule they themselves outdated just to 'stick to their guns' on the end date.

I'd be quite surprised if we didn't get even a hint before January because 3 months of silence isn't a good move. Especially with as much apprehension as everyone has not just about the last of this pass but the unknown amount to be revealed.

 

[Hadokeyblade]

It's Friday the 13th so say hello to my good friend Jason Voorhees

Super Smash Bros Ultimate X Friday the 13th.

 

[CapitaineCrash]

Honestly I don't think we'll see anything in december. Christmas is coming really soon and we rarely get video games news in general at this time of the year. It just feels like bad timing. My bet are on a mid-january direct.

 

[Iko MattOrr]

Who are the characters who would make the fanbase angry the most?

I think...

-Someone from games like Fortnite, Apex or similar games (excluding Overwatch)
-Someone from trash phone games that beg you for microtransactions.
-Bubsy or any other character from a game/series with bad reputation
-Another Marth clone
-Zavok (bonus if he comes with Zazz and they are released before Waluigi) or Infinite
-A promotional character, and by promotional I mean like the Mercedes car in Mario Kart.

probably more.

 

[Calamitas]

You think next week will announce a direct? Yes I know there hasn’t been a direct in December since 2015. But they can break norms

I'd sincerely hope so. Wouldn't even need to be a general one, a Smash focussed one would be fine too.

 

[EricTheGamerman]

Simply put, we have no reason to believe a direct will be announced in January. I lean towards nay, but that's just me being pessimistic.

We can at least assume February is the latest month. Why? Because the DLC Wave 1 is scheduled to end at Feb 2020.

I just really feel you're being too pessimistic about this sort of thing. If there is no announcement in January, then there will have been 93 days (and this is assuming that February 1st is the reveal date and not further out) between the last piece of Smash information relevant and a showing of the character reveal (the longest period of dead air in Ultimate's DLC cycle as we knew Joker post launch and had the 2.0 Update, and Joker to E3 was only 54 days and that event revealed two fighters in a massive style).

It just seems way too long for there not to be any more specific information on the table about #5 and the future of Smash DLC if this entire game's life cycle is anything to go by. Hell, even for base game, the time between Ultimate's reveal and E3 unveiling was 95 days and that holds the record for the longest period without new Smash information previously.

 

[Deleted member]

But they've been way ahead of schedule. They've been pushing characters every other month when it seemed they intended to drag them out longer. Perhaps due to knowing they would be doing more than this pass and had no more need to drag it out as much. It'd feel silly to make us wait even longer than normal just to fit a schedule they themselves outdated just to 'stick to their guns' on the end date.

I'd be quite surprised if we didn't get even a hint before January because 3 months of silence isn't a good move. Especially with as much apprehension as everyone has not just about the last of this pass but the unknown amount to be revealed.

First of all, what makes us so sure we're actually ahead of schedule, especially for FP 5? Just because the fighters were releasing earlier than we anticipated is no actual proof of anything.

Theoretically, FP 5 could release early February and could tie into a February direct, similar to Banjo being released early September.

 

[Sari]

I'm betting on a December or January Smash Direct.

With Christmas and New Years happening soon, I think next week might be our only shot at getting some news in December.

 

[Deleted member]

I just really feel you're being too pessimistic about this sort of thing. If there is no announcement in January, then there will have been 93 days (and this is assuming that February 1st is the reveal date and not further out) between the last piece of Smash information relevant and a showing of the character reveal (the longest period of dead air in Ultimate's DLC cycle as we knew Joker post launch and had the 2.0 Update, and Joker to E3 was only 54 days and that event revealed two fighters in a massive style).

It just seems way too long for there not to be any more specific information on the table about #5 and the future of Smash DLC if this entire game's life cycle is anything to go by. Hell, even for base game, the time between Ultimate's reveal and E3 unveiling was 95 days and that holds the record for the longest period without new Smash information previously.

I have no issue in believing this is pessimistic thinking, but if it can happen, I don't wanna get my hopes up for a January direct yet. There's just no reason to believe anything is happening in January, but there is reason to expect something in February.

I hope for a Smash direct to prove me wrong, especially with Post Pass potentially being underway.

 

[Dutch Raikuna]

I'm think about 25% chance before the month is over. If not definitely the first two weeks of January.

 

[Roberk]

Unless a Christmas miracle happens and Nintendo does a Direct next week, we'll have to wait until January for FP5. Honestly, with 20/20 hindsight, a character revealed closer to their release in January/February to fully squeeze as much development time out of that February 20th, 2020 cutoff for the Fighters Pass makes sense. I'm just wondering who it could be, my brain is fried after all of those disconfirmations and companies already in the Fighters Pass.

 

[MooMew64]

Nintendo's gonna show it when they want. Making us wait will do squat when the character actually launches and people get excited for it regardless of the wait.

Not that many people are as fixated on FP5 as we are. Gotta realize we're a really, really, REALLY tiny bubble here in speculation that Nintendo doesn't care about at all.

 

[Calamitas]

Honestly, the only days next week where we can expect an announcement (as in, announcing any kind of event where we get any actual news) are Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. These things get announced one day in advance at latest, and never happen on weekends, Mondays or Fridays.

 

[TheAJJohnson]

Poor Smash, I was really pulling for it to get Game of the Year. I mean I understand, Sekiro is quite the game and Miyazaki is someone they should have recognized a long time ago with a GOTY... but yeah...

I was just stoked to see Smash in the runnings. I mean how often do fighting games get nomitated for Game of the Year?

 

[Hinata]

Simply put, we have no reason to believe a direct will be announced in January. I lean towards nay, but that's just me being pessimistic.

We can at least assume February is the latest month. Why? Because the DLC Wave 1 is scheduled to end at Feb 2020.

Obviously there won't be a Direct in January, because we're getting a Direct this month.

 

[Deleted member]

I was just stoked to see Smash in the runnings. I mean how often do fighting games get nomitated for Game of the Year?

Got a couple of goosebumps when Lifelight was performed in the GOTY medley. It was pretty nice

 

[Rie Sonomura]

Honestly, the only days next week where we can expect an announcement (as in, announcing any kind of event where we get any actual news) are Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. These things get announced one day in advance at latest, and never happen on weekends, Mondays or Fridays.

I think the Robin/Lucina livestream was announced the Friday before (actual livestream was on Monday) and EVO 2018 announced the Wednesday direct that would announce Simon, Richter, Chrom, Dark Samus and King K. Rool on a Sunday. Those are probably the exception tho

 

[TheAJJohnson]

Obviously there won't be a Direct in January, because we're getting a Direct this month.

Yep. Correct me if I'm wrong, but so far there has been a correlation between Indie World Directs and Nintendo Directs, namely that every time we get the former, the latter comes out a week later. We had one this week, so I'm banking on next week.