Swamp took the words right out of my mouth.
VGX is basically for douchey dudebro gamers who are obsessed with games that are based on violence, hence why those are the only types of games that win GOTY. Although I thought Bioshock Infinite should have won over GTA. **** that.
But yea. Nintendo made Nintendo Direct's as a way for them to introduce their information on their own terms. So considering we haven't gotten a character in over a month, Smash needs hype, and characters have been revealed in a Direct before, it's certainly not a bad thing if you're getting hyped.
In my own opinion, Nintendo has overall done a TERRIBLE job of hyping the game. Sure, we've gotten a steady stream of info, but there are just some weeks where we get absolutely nothing. It's getting close to a month and a half since we have gotten a character, so it's coming. It's either tomorrow, this week, or next week.
If you take that into account, it can be a few different characters here. It can be: Diddy Kong for Tropical Freeze info, Dedede or Meta Knight for Kirby information, Yoshi if they cover Yarn Yoshi, or something unexpected if pull something out of their butts.