PeterJude
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This is exactly the point. If DLC is put on the table, all the "rules" we know go off it. This all reminds me of the debates around Civilization V, where there were so many Civs that "couldn't ever happen", because a major city of their's was in as a City State, only for them to... *drum roll* ...take out the city state when they added them as a Civ.
The funny part about all that is it actually created a great way of predicting Civs. The inclusion of Riga in the final expansion for the game actually allowed Venice to be predicted about 2 months in advance, as the colour-type combination of Riga was the same as Venice, and the only way that had been observed was with that city state being removed, and the only logical deduction that could be made was that Venice was in a civ. The debate from there was Italy or Venice, but when they showed a screens shot that had the colours of an unknown civ, and they were exactly the ones from wikipedia's Venetian Flag, as in, ink dropper off of it, it became clear that it was Venice. Of course another Italian city state was spotted, further strengthening the point that it must be Venice. To be honest that search, discovery and debate was a damn site more fun that "Ridley's too big, screw you Ridley!" debates that many had on here, but anyhow...
The point about all that is that if DLC really is on the table, there's a whole new dimension for speculation, and we may even be able to find new rules to work with. I seriously doubt we can take anything as ruling a character out of DLC reckoning as well, particularly as we've been told that DLC wasn't considered at the time of production, and as such it's unlikely that when they put together the assets that they did more than maybe leave placeholder tags to work with.
The most fun of it all of course is that if DLC does come, nobody is off the table, not Ridley, K Rool, Mewtwo, Ice Climbers, Snake, Chrom, even damn Shrek (ughh... they could licence him, ugh...), it's a free for all again. Considering the level of hype that this build up made, and the way they played the game with us through development, if they do go down that path it would be great all round. What's more is they have plenty of highly requested characters, cut veterans, third party cross overs and all sorts to play with. The sky really is the limit if they go down that road, particularly with Amiibos.
Of course, just like with how Civ V introduced DLC with a free Mongolia Civ download as a way of showing people how it would work, I'd think Nintendo would do something similar, and that may be the only character I'd think would be held back for the show. It would need to be someone big though, (like the Mongols were for Civ) but let's not get too far into who would be a candidate, as that is just down the rabbit hole levels of speculation at this point.
But yeah, long story short, nobody is off the table if DLC does come.
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) Maybe sakurai just estimated how much space the game would take after a year worth of patches? This Friday's patch wasn't a balance patch btw, it was a content patch. So yeah, the theory that Sakurai might add content after the 3DS release has some merit. Here's my analysis:
