I think there needs to be something said here.
I don't think it is possible for their to be a community between the smash games.
This isn't just a pride issue, this is about having different goals as well.
Smash 4 has is simple, all it cares about is being what it wants to be and proving it's good.
However, then we get things like Melee.
Melee...can't last forever. And with Nintendo not going out of their way for them, things start getting heated.
What reason do they have to constantly call brawl and smash 4 bad games? Simple, because if they criticize those games enough times, maybe Sakurai and Nintendo will notice and make another "Offensive" or "Like Melee" or whatever they want to call it type game. They won't have to worry about melee dying then.
And what about project M? They could be dead at any moment now.
With that said, how the Project m community is reacting currently is burning me up. A lot admit to not knowing that much about the legal situation and they still are really attacking Nintendo for it.
Really, I would like to see a community, but I gave up on that as soon as I joined this forum. We are just too different despite being built on the same game series. People are blinded too much on hatred to understand facts of the matter.