The fanbase refuses to listen to a lot of stuff Sakurai says. Remember when he said that he prefers if a character is fun than if they're recognizable and people are still using "Niche" as an argument against a character, for example?
I'd rather say they're very selective in what to listen and what not to.
Hold on a minute:
> Other fighting games promote characters
> Smash Bros. LORE gets quickly messed up with multiple of the same characters appearing anyway, having multiple of the same spirits, and a lot of spirits are based on a character who’s a fighter with the spirit canonically being the same character
> Assist Trophy characters are also Spirits, meaning they shouldn’t be able to assist because they’re dead
> Smash 4 Mewtwo and Lucas
> Chrom
Yet somehow promotions are seen as nearly 100% not gonna happen?
Though admittedly if the ARMS character isn’t a promotion - despite Spring Man and the spirits being the most-popular and maybe best representative of the game, meaning this would be kinda suspicious - then yeah I’d start having very little expectations for all of the characters I want except Steve, since Minecraft isn’t in Smash yet, of course.
This isn’t to say I wouldn’t like whoever the ARMS character is, though; they’re all kinda cool, just even ignoring promotion stuff I would personally like Spring Man or Min Min the best. Helix and Dr. Coyle would also be cool, though.
Thing is that we don't know precisely how the character selection process works, and for those mentioned ones there can be loopholes added to counter.
>No promotion has been done in the same game; Little Mac, Isabelle, Charizard, Dark Samus, Palutena, etc., weren't promoted in the same game they debuted.
>None of the multiple spirits of one character represents the same thing, it's one thing to have a spirit of Mario as a baby and another using a rock power up.
>Never heard this one admittedly, so dunno.
>Veterans whose data could be carried over, especially easier with the latter, and no DLC in Ultimate so far was an upgrade, unless you really want to count a 8-bit Piranha Plant in Mushroom Kingdom stage
>Chrom's an Echo who was likely added late in development by taking advantage of them needing to model him for Robin's FS anyway, as evidenced by some animations in his model being a bit off and initially using the regular Fire Emblem victory theme instead of the Awakening one Lucina and Robin use.
Now I am not saying promotions can't happen, nor I am affirming any of these are really factors since we can't truly know, but it's understandable a number of people just don't think promotions are going to happen.
