Hey there, fellow smashers. I've been pouring over these boards for a while now, reading about all these predictions and expectations, but keeping my mouth shut. But a recent realization made me feel the need to finally post for myself.
Does anyone else find it highly suspicious that we haven't had a character update in 54 days? Considering the number of characters we all expect to see in Brawl, wouldn't Sakurai have been able to give us one, even two during this long stretch of time? I think it's high time we all resigned to the possibility that Sakurai's keeping tight-lipped on characters until the game is actually released in Japan. In the past, Sakurai has said that he has no qualms about revealing secret characters, since they will be revealed on the internet anyway. Still, that doesn't mean he wouldn't keep the suspense going as long as he could.
Any thoughts on the matter?
I agree with this for I have mnetioned this as a possibility several thousand times. However, the delay is also a big factor as well. In fact, in the Samurai Panda's Conspiracy thread I posted this:
"I'm waiting it out too...till the Japanese release date when they spill all the characters all on the internet. These theories and equations, formulas and updates, have done nothing more than create useless threads time and time again. Now, I understand we need something to talk about, but every theory was have has been erased.
Ever since Brawl's delay and the debut of Sonic, we have done nothing more than create such theories. I've got a theory for everyone:
Sakurai initially wanted to exposed alot of information on the Dojo website so that the thrill of the game would not be lost to internet bloggers and such who would tell everyone how to unlock the characters. However, something happen in the development of the game, possibly last minute "OK" on Sonic for the game combined with other issues and thus, resulted in an obvious delay of the release of the game AND now, Sakurai is not willing to post very crutical updates, like character and stages because he wants to keep the information he already has on lockdown since he let out alot of info as it is.
There are no patterns, formulas, conspiracies, equations, period. Sakurai knows that the average person will not read too much into the updates he has posted, like music or the controls of the game. Unless you are Youko, Samurai Panda, or otherwise, you really don't pay attention to that kind of stuff. Most people care about characters, stages, and the Assist Trophies. So if he posts as few of those possible for the above average people, like lets say, those who are on smashworld forums, or those who create fake blogs that character is confirmed and such, then he can avoid all the information being leaked until at least the Japanese release date. In fact, I believe his whole goal is to conceal as much information about the game until the Japanese release date."
That basically sums what I believe.
