That is the starting roster. The E for all character select screen is the starting roster and you guys are saying it' not even after the update. I give up on you guys.
(Character select screen Confirmed, starting roster also Confirmed.)
I'm betting the roster we get from that magazine is from one of the Japanese people, who works for a magazine that went to E for all and saw smash bros. character select.
I guess this COULD mean that not all of the characters we thought were starters actually are now. We might be given a very limited amount of characters, even some that you'd expect to be starters. Maybe we'll have to unlock those characters too? I doubt it, but it's certainly a possibility considering the way Subspace Emissary is set up.
However this definitely isn't the select screen. Why would we have Metaknight before Kirby?. Why isn't there enough room to even fit all of the confirmed characters? Why would he even mention being spoiled by people online if so many of the revealed characters were unlockable?
Also, to quote a person from a closed topic that relates to this discussion:
AsbestosBlatant said:
A while back he said he was going to reveal every hidden character eventually, and has already confirmed that Sonic is not going to be a starter character so it's only reasonable to assume that we HAVE seen some unlockable characters up to this point.
Yes, but Sonic is a special case. In that quote, he said that he was going to relase those characters the same way he revealed the melee characters; after the release date.