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All Spirits are on that banner from the EarthBound series, minus Fighter Spirits (Ness and Lucas), summonable Spirits (Flying Man, Mr. Saturn, Ultimate Chimera, Absolutely Safe Capsule), and Spirits that are unlocked after a challenge is met (Masked Man).
If it's done in a subtle way, like this simple "oversight", nothing could be blamed on Nintendo. The idea would be to divert attention through the community's interpretation: "Let's look to Capcom", "Let's look to Bamco", "Let's look to Porky"... Thus, the new Fighters would really be "never saw it coming".
To be fair, we only have one data point to go off of for Costume Theory. All I’m saying is, until there’s an identifiable trend (say, Hero releases with Square Enix costumes...) I wouldn’t buy into it just yet.
Ignoring any potential newcomers (Jill, Leon, Chris, and maybe Claire as a Leon/ensemble RE character alt): Rebecca Chambers, Wesker, Barry Burton, Ada Wong, Ashley Graham, Nemesis, and Mr. X would be the obvious choices for spirits. Resident Evil has no shortage of memorable characters so I doubt Sakurai would be hard pressed to find potential spirits
We'd be grasping at straws to assume they're doing so. They have no reason to do this when the characters would be surprising anyway, since nobody would know who they were unless a leaker with an amazing track record says something; what the fans interpret from images is nothing of their concern, when the images could've just been seemingly strange choices for promotion or making a reference to please fans...or just odd decisions that unintentionally bother fans. They have no reason to create false expectations for anyone other than potential leakers, but they only do that internally, i.e. when they had Xander Mobus announce Rayman's name among others that ended up not being playable in Smash 4 (which wasn't public knowledge until Xander said it on a stream).
I think the one thing Spyro has going for him over Crash is that Spyro more or less kicked off the entire Toys-to-life genre. A genre in which Smash Bros. is heavily invested.
I saw this on Reddit (Link here, might want to use Ceddit to see the content of the removed post), top post there came from a native Japanese speaker who said that this does not confirm the Hero's release date and that the date on the top right says "take poster off by August 4th." Several other top comments in the same reddit thread mention that the August 4th thing is in relation to the Ad (and some lambasting reddit poster for being misleading about the tweet for Karma)
No fighter would be surprising by that criteria. Costume theory is literally something that has been made up and is far from confirmed, and I doubt anyone involved in the game thought this hard about it. If we exclude every single character that has appeared prominently in speculation then what we are left with is an actual bunch of 'literal who's,' and not in the way that people like to throw around for characters that are from franchises they just haven't played.
Beyond the fact that many people interpret the 'new to Smash' quote differently than we do (as has been clearly shown)... Sakurai having followed the Smash Ballot isn't proof that he follows Famitsu polls. They're obviously two very different things.
An argument ad populum is a fallacious argument.
I have proven that Sakurai can rely on a poll, like the ballot. So I think it's legitimate to reason with polls, especially if Street Fighter, Final Fantasy VII, Persona 5 and Dragon Quest were 1st in Famitsu polls. You claim a proof. The problem is that you are clamoring a proof that would contradict information that you said without proof first. You claim a proof to deny your assertion below that has no proof first:
This message was also an unfounded assertion and an argument ad populum. If you think you're coming up with fallacious arguments in what I'm saying, maybe it's better not to answer with fallacious arguments. It's important not to blame others for what you do yourself.
So's begging the question which is pretty much everything you keep saying....
I’m an EarthBound fan, and even I’m pretty sure the chances for that are kinda low. But here’s hoping! It is the series’ 30th Anniversary on Saturday, after all.
In this recent video Bandai Namco posted, Habumon the Director of Digimon Games talked about Digimon games in general.
I think they’re referring to the Mother 30th Anniversary Spirit event? Unless it’s something else
I wasn't making the claim that just because people don't agree that means they're right. I was just pointing out that it's evident that our interpretation of Reggie's quote is not objectively correct, and there's room for debate. Others have already explained that point.
That's also not an ad populum. I was saying they're arbitrary and meaningless, as an explanation why nobody cares. The argument being that they're arbitrary and meaningless.
No, you've proven that Sakurai can rely on the Ballot, and specifically the Ballot. The differences between the Ballot and any old poll from any magazine are night and day, but since you clearly need them pointed out: the Ballot was an official poll by Nintendo that was made with the explicit purpose of suggesting characters people wanted in Smash games. Magazine polls like Famitsu are not.
1%
Heihachi Mishima and Phoenix Wright.
Doomslayer and Jill valentine(it's not the only prediction I can think of but it's the most likely to me).
Sabi already said there is a 99% chance it isn't happening today so I wouldn't count on it. I'm betting on next week at this point.
Got a source for that claim?
Jill Valentine and then either a Tekken or KOF character, depending on how that "3D mechanics" thing pans out.
Dunno. Heihachi and Jill? 3 canuck dollars
So much for nothing Nintendo related.
Lol it's just a hypothetical, I was mainly just giving an example of the stakes being high.
... it was a joke, lol. Guess I should have used a
.On the topic of Ryu.
If we are to believe that Google has some truth to it, then the last two Fighters' Pass character would be Doom Slayer and Ryu Hayabusa.
Frisk and a Resident Evil character. I'm pretty torn between it being Jill or Leon, but if you had to force me to choose one, Leon I guess? I think both have about an equal chance of getting in, but I'll go with Leon just because RE2 and RE4 are among the most popular entries.
