Fair point, English isn't my first language and I learned something thank to you. But while "turning out" doesn't imply an end all be all statement, it doesn't exclude it either. A cake that's "turning out good" can still end up being good, unless you want to say that anything that "turns out" something necessarily ends up being something else (which of course makes no sense). "Total" on the other hand is much more explicit.
Also "turning out" is defining "pretty impressive", not "103 stages". I don't think anyone is expecting us to get a number of stages much higher than 103, something like 107 would still be able to be defined as such, and is not much higher enough to be defined as something like "absolutely incredible" rather than "pretty impressive". We can also look at the translation given in the livestream of different languages:
- French: "Au total, nous atteignons un nombre assez impressionnant de stages." ► "In total, we reach a quite impressive number of stages."
- Italian: "Il numero di scenari è davvero impressionante." ► "The number of stages is really impressive."
- Spanish: "El número total de escenarios es empresionante." ► "The total number of stages is impressive."
Considering other languages say "is" or "reach" and considering how 107 wouldn't be much higher than 103 I'd say "turns out" isn't a good clue. On the other hand "total" is a much more explicit word used in more languages and thus a much stronger evidence. While the Italian sentence above lacks it, it later says "Ora el totale è di..." which means "Now the total is of...", so once again the Italian stream doesn't lack the word "total".
You refer to this?
You have not addressed my point, which was about all stages being starter stages.
You also have not addressed my point about the "total" number of stages.
To convince me that we have more stages to be seen, you must convince me that "total" somehow doesn't refer to all stages in the game (considering said "total" was compared to the "total" number of stages of past Smash games including with and without DLC in Smash 4, albeit with slightly inaccurate numbers for Smash Wii U) but only to starter stages, and that "All stages" in the caption about them being available from the get-go only refers to stages we've already seen.
Maybe we need to understand what's literally said in Japanese by Sakurai himself. It's possible that the initial idea may have been lost in translation giving us an impression of a final number for the entire game while it may only have referred to the currently shown starter stages in Japanese. We would need the litteral translation from someone who understands Japanese well, but considering how multiple languages converge to the word "total" I'd say it's quite unlikely.
I never denied that. I in fact did a paragraph about it, like if we get Isaac we're also getting a Golden Sun stage (a Venus Lighthouse stage could be awesome).
I was about to mention the initial 3DS stage selection screen, then I thought about the arrow in the game's data, so I admit it's not really a counterargument. And you're right that "DLCs" is not really a good argument either.
I find the word "total" to be rather explicit, especially since it was compared with the "total" of previous games. Saying that "total number of stage" doesn't mean "number of all the game's stage" seems like mental gymnastic to me.
