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I'm calling bunk on this theory. First of all, we don't see the other side of the box. Secondly, why are so many characters missing? There's no way we're only getting two more characters this far away from launch.
It can't be as bad as me dreaming that Hunter x Hunter and Naruto characters being the last few characters.
Agreed. Also it doesn't even show Isabelle who was just released.
No. That theory is dumb. That boxart clearly doesn't show EVERY character.
Yeah I am also gonna say placeholder. There's no way they'd make it that clear as to how many to-be-revealed characters there are left.
Presumably, the rest would be on the other side.
Basically my opinion on this theory.
He addresses it in the twitter thread. He basically talks about the way the characters are grouped and how it would look on the other side, eventually leading to only 2 more characters.
Don’t you dare get our hopes down.
Headcanon:
Hey... Not to be mean, but it always seems you're the bearer of 'Bad News'. It's also that guys theory. Does not mean it's set in stone.
It's prerelease promotional material. There's no reason to put any stock into it.Since I don't want to bring anyone down about it, I'm just going to say that the box theory is funny.
It doesn't look right, and even if it were how the box would look (which is kinda of weird to put the characters like that on it), it's still just a theory based on a box, lol. I don't think they'd actually put all the characters in a certain order on it or based on a specific roster number.
Anyway, you can keep a lookout if you want, but for now I think we can just dismiss it
Any of that could have been confirmed or disproved, if it weren't for that damnedHeadcanon:
> Chairs were meant for Shantae's reveal.
> Planned reveal during Nindies Direct.
> Pulled from the Direct for various reasons.
> Throw a game in the now-open slot to keep from having to reshoot parts of the Direct.
> Isabelle get's revealed in the already planned 9.6 direct with new AC game announcement.
> Chair theory was right all along, but we were all just ****in' baited
> Theories are now in shambles.
Do you have the original nintendo source for it?
Headcanon:
> Chairs were meant for Shantae's reveal.
> Planned reveal during Nindies Direct.
> Pulled from the Direct for various reasons.
> Throw a game in the now-open slot to keep from having to reshoot parts of the Direct.
> Isabelle get's revealed in the already planned 9.6 direct with new AC game announcement.
> Chair theory was right all along, but we were all just ****in' baited
> Theories are now in shambles.
There's no way they'd put Luigi through that kind of thing for a trailer again, no matter how much they may enjoy him suffering. It'd just be too similar to the Castlevania trailer.
In retrospect, the posts leading up to the original Direct date and most of the office hints could also apply to Isabelle. Yellow, and the tropical plants could be referencing Tortimer Island of New Leaf. That still leaves the purple and ''lamp'' unaccounted for, however...Headcanon:
> Chairs were meant for Shantae's reveal.
> Planned reveal during Nindies Direct.
> Pulled from the Direct for various reasons.
> Throw a game in the now-open slot to keep from having to reshoot parts of the Direct.
> Isabelle get's revealed in the already planned 9.6 direct with new AC game announcement.
> Chair theory was right all along, but we were all just ****in' baited
> Theories are now in shambles.
Plus they don't recycle characters. Each trailer involves a different set of characters.
Well it's not unheard of to reuse characters in different trailers (it'd be easier to count the Smash 4 trailers that didn't have Mario in them).
I think my biggest issue with this theory is that, if it is true, then 5 of the 8 (supposedly) post-E3 newcomers (counting echoes) were revealed in August, leaving only 3 to be revealed from September until release (which seems like a really weird reveal schedule). Plus, it doesn't really make sense to reveal both of the game's biggest (figuratively and literally) newcomers more than 4 months out.
It always was. Remember the whole "I hope you're not expecting too many new fighters" thing. Sakurai's a slippery boi.What if this is an elaborate scheme by Sakurai to lower our expectations, so that we're pleasantly grateful to get however many more are left?
Yeah. We all bought into that. Pretty much everyone was expecting one new character and an echo going into the August Direct and BAM. 2 new characters and 3 echoes. We were rope-a-doped. And there's no way they would've blown the lot that soon.
Indeed. There's no way a silly box is going to suddenly invalidate all of that when its artwork could easily be changed and shrunken down.
You're the worst for using that clip XD
as a canadian, i hope nintendo doesn't just have them for the USA and Japan :C
In one corner, actual promotional material for the game.
However, this goes against several things. Only two more characters would place the newcomer total far below the average compared to the last 3 entries in the series. Only two more reveals (one of which is an echo) 3 months out from release is simply nonsensical. Promotional art has changed before (this happens all the time with many games, not just Smash and Nintendo).
It's entirely possible that the box designers were given a designated character slot amount limit, so that even they wouldn't know the actual final base roster number.
-Lower than average newcomer count: While I don't typically like throwing this out, Sakurai has already said to not expect too many new challengers. This isn't unlikely.
Okay, that's pretty cool that he's laying down the smackdown!
basically us right now
oh I am WITH you. believe you ME. some leaks just have the most detestable "reveals" that I cant imagine sakurai ever to consider. X_X
More accurately, this is me right now:
So, what you're saying is that the hype train is going strong, all of our sudden she's dis confirmed, and then all of our hopes and dreams blow up in to millions of tiny little pieces?