I guess one thing I do want to comment as well when in regards to the SE character discussion is that Nintendo was the one who decided on the SE character and brought them up to SE for a deal.
A lot of people have been pushing on SE’s views and who SE would want to go for and what they want to promote as if they were the ones that went up to Nintendo, when they are forgetting that Nintendo is also apart of the equation too (too much sometimes). In the end, Nintendo was the one who made the call on the character that they wanted to include, and decided to confront SE on making a deal with said character.
Nintendo could very well pick Sora, Erdrick, Geno, Chrono, etc. The points for those characters are still valid as a reason for their inclusion, but I really doubt SE kept bribering them on characters when Nintendo went up to SE. Nintendo is a juggernaut of company in the gaming industry and definitely isn’t a slouch when it comes to business decisions and cooperating with other companies, so I find it more likely that Nintendo went up to SE with a character in mind that they were ready to discuss about. SE could suggest other characters to Nintendo, but I doubt that SE’s influence was as much of a roadblock as people are making it out to be since if Nintendo and SE are in a disagreement on who should be added, then a deal probably wouldn’t have made at all.
But those are just my thoughts on this whole debacle.