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Competitive Smash players still look at that footage.
Yes, I believe that box theory and Vergeben's speculated information fit together with Sora (or Geno or Lara Croft or SE Rep) and Steve on the back of the box. Of course, this means we get four characters instead of six. I believe six is possible, but not at all likely, and especially not as likely as blog theory makes it out to be.
Why wouldn't Simon and Richter be on the back of the box too?
Castevania isn't nearly as popular as Kingdom Hearts (or SMRPG or Tomb Raider or Dragon Quest) and Minecraft. Castlevania is prominent due to it's retro association with Nintendo, and is certainly a legendary and iconic series in it's own right (being half of the Metroidvania genre's namesake), but compared to the sheer wow factor of the former two characters Simon can't compare as much.
The roster is way too big to even use the system you want. There are still going to be posts made about characters just days before the game launches but by then... who's going to care anymore. The 20 second clips are going to be just as useless then as they are now.
But why going just with Sora and Steve? Sonic, Metal Gear, Street Fighter and Final Fantasy are all as big if not bigger than those two, and Sonic was still highlighted alongside Mega Man and Pac Man on the back of Smash For even tho he was a veteran.
So basically what you are telling me the characters on the back of the box are based on popularity? I'm sure the reason why this worked in brawl is because there were only two 3rd party reps to work with. Excluding Simon and Richter from the back of the box would be a slap in the face to konami who worked equally as hard as square enix or microsoft to get their character in the game. And if the square rep is Geno, I'd say that Simon & Richter are equally deserving to be on the back of the box.
I don't think I'd be complaining if we actually got more than 1 blogpost regarding our last Direct in a week.
All it takes is one asshole who knows he won't get caught to take a copy home early.
The last two times it wasn’t literally just some text leaks.
I do agree the way they're handling items and stages is dumb. In fact I'd bet they just shoved them in the blog in the last minute but I still think these character posts are done this way for a reason and that's because they are going to pull another surprise like Sonic.
Don’t give them any ideas. If they have pics, I’d like to see them please and thank you.
Yeah this is essentially what im guessing too, box theory is true BUT we are actually getting more than just two more... theres just a special reason they arent on the box. Whatever that reason may be i dont know but it could be as simple as having the box go into printing after the next set of characters revealed (ken/incineroar) while sakurai wants to save a surprise or two held off until a bit closer to release.
If you know the blog is worthless don't check it. We have been getting footage from demo tournaments for quite some time, but no, lets all look at the blog that will announce nothing and has never been relevant.
Call me a nostalgia ***, but the blog for Brawl and Smash4 actually had weight and merit to it, to the point that the Dojo is legit nostalgic for a lot of people.
Yeah, the blog announces nothing and has never been relevant, unlike previous Smash blogs. So what's the point of even having it? That's their point.
I'm still watching them.
Yeah dude, anyone who doesn't watch those trailers doesn't deserve their Smash scout badges or sashes!
All I need left is to help the elderly then beat them in Smash.
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Now this, I can get behind.Gonna throw my hat in the ring for something in regards to the "blog theory".
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
Week 13
Week 14
Week 15
Week 16
Notably, The main pattern is three per week.
We've had two normal weeks where we've had an extra fourth fighter, but two weeks later with only two almost as if to compensate.
Week 13 is an outlier since that was the initial week we were supposed to get Isabelle before everything got shifted around due to the earthquake.
And instead of getting Isabelle's update the same day she was revealed, it was pushed forward to the following week. Which is odd as having four that week would even out the two from the previous week as well as when she was SUPPOSED to be updated.
So what does this mean? First let's account for who's left in character number order by groups of three (or two for rest of Week 16, hypothetically.
Week 16
Weel 17
Week 18
Week 19
Week 20
Week 21
Week 22
Week 23
Week 24
So this means assuming no newcomers are revealed beforehand, all veteran fighters will have been featured on the Blog on the week of 11/18-11/22. Leaving two whole weeks before release. So hypothetically 7 newcomers left IF those weeks also have the standard three characters (plus one for Week 24)
Add in the idea that one week will likely have four fighters instead of three to "counterbalance" the two from Week 13 (and it can't be Week 16 because Sunday's update was already not a character), and that would imply 8 newcomers instead if, again, the three character per week is still visited until release.
Although under the same pretense, Ken and Incineroar really being the last two would have them fit nicely in the "pre-earthquake" schedule and the "one week post-earthquake gets an extra fourth fighter" schedule if we assume the last two weeks go without characters at all.
And for all we know, the last week could have no characters either.
So it could be just 2, 5, or 8.
Personally, 8 plus the 9 we have so far PLUS the 7 returning playable fighters from Melee/Brawl seems a bit too much to be realistic.
58 + 24?
Even 5 more seems to be pushing it a bit, but might be more reasonable in comparison.
My personal bets?
-Incineroar
-Ken
-Steve?
-Geno
-Shadow
Well, hot damn, this is a pretty good take.Gonna throw my hat in the ring for something in regards to the "blog theory".
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
Week 13
Week 14
Week 15
Week 16
Notably, The main pattern is three per week.
We've had two normal weeks where we've had an extra fourth fighter, but two weeks later with only two almost as if to compensate.
Week 13 is an outlier since that was the initial week we were supposed to get Isabelle before everything got shifted around due to the earthquake.
And instead of getting Isabelle's update the same day she was revealed, it was pushed forward to the following week. Which is odd as having four that week would even out the two from the previous week as well as when she was SUPPOSED to be updated.
So what does this mean? First let's account for who's left in character number order by groups of three (or two for rest of Week 16, hypothetically.
Week 16
Weel 17
Week 18
Week 19
Week 20
Week 21
Week 22
Week 23
Week 24
So this means assuming no newcomers are revealed beforehand, all veteran fighters will have been featured on the Blog on the week of 11/18-11/22. Leaving two whole weeks before release. So hypothetically 7 newcomers left IF those weeks also have the standard three characters (plus one for Week 24)
Add in the idea that one week will likely have four fighters instead of three to "counterbalance" the two from Week 13 (and it can't be Week 16 because Sunday's update was already not a character), and that would imply 8 newcomers instead if, again, the three character per week is still visited until release.
Although under the same pretense, Ken and Incineroar really being the last two would have them fit nicely in the "pre-earthquake" schedule and the "one week post-earthquake gets an extra fourth fighter" schedule if we assume the last two weeks go without characters at all.
And for all we know, the last week could have no characters either.
So it could be just 2, 5, or 8.
Personally, 8 plus the 9 we have so far PLUS the 7 returning playable fighters from Melee/Brawl seems a bit too much to be realistic.
58 + 24?
Even 5 more seems to be pushing it a bit, but might be more reasonable in comparison.
My personal bets?
-Incineroar
-Ken
-Steve?
-Geno
-Shadow
And then DLC happens.
Great job with this analysis, but I wouldn't say that 8 more + 9 we already have is too unrealistic, mostly because most of those will probably be echo fighters.Gonna throw my hat in the ring for something in regards to the "blog theory".
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
Week 13
Week 14
Week 15
Week 16
Notably, The main pattern is three per week.
We've had two normal weeks where we've had an extra fourth fighter, but two weeks later with only two almost as if to compensate.
Week 13 is an outlier since that was the initial week we were supposed to get Isabelle before everything got shifted around due to the earthquake.
And instead of getting Isabelle's update the same day she was revealed, it was pushed forward to the following week. Which is odd as having four that week would even out the two from the previous week as well as when she was SUPPOSED to be updated.
So what does this mean? First let's account for who's left in character number order by groups of three (or two for rest of Week 16, hypothetically.
Week 16
Weel 17
Week 18
Week 19
Week 20
Week 21
Week 22
Week 23
Week 24
So this means assuming no newcomers are revealed beforehand, all veteran fighters will have been featured on the Blog on the week of 11/18-11/22. Leaving two whole weeks before release. So hypothetically 7 newcomers left IF those weeks also have the standard three characters (plus one for Week 24)
Add in the idea that one week will likely have four fighters instead of three to "counterbalance" the two from Week 13 (and it can't be Week 16 because Sunday's update was already not a character), and that would imply 8 newcomers instead if, again, the three character per week is still visited until release.
Although under the same pretense, Ken and Incineroar really being the last two would have them fit nicely in the "pre-earthquake" schedule and the "one week post-earthquake gets an extra fourth fighter" schedule if we assume the last two weeks go without characters at all.
And for all we know, the last week could have no characters either.
So it could be just 2, 5, or 8.
Personally, 8 plus the 9 we have so far PLUS the 7 returning playable fighters from Melee/Brawl seems a bit too much to be realistic.
58 + 24?
Even 5 more seems to be pushing it a bit, but might be more reasonable in comparison.
My personal bets?
-Incineroar
-Ken
-Steve?
-Geno
-Shadow
ken + one other echo working out nicely adds a bit more weight to shadows chances.
Yup that's exactly the idea behind the box theory, 1 more echo, 1 more newcomer, that's it.
Yeah, if you take the box as 100% fact then it hard deconfirms Shadow.
Another reason why I don't buy this theory.
Hmm, I think this leak is fake, throw it in bin with the others
Happy birthday, what's the leak