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Who is CAW, by chance?
CAW Evolution of gamefaqs.
I'd say it's a save for E3. Mii's and Pacman would draw in a wide range of fans as they are one of the most identifiable characters out there.
What's some of his credentials? What are some of the stuff he's leaked correctly?
Off the top of my head, the entire roster of Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3 and that he's been in touch with many real leakers before (I don't know how honestly). I'll have to search again to find the other stuff he's leaked. He usually just has insider information. I believe he knew about many DLC characters in Injustice Gods among us, and leaked some stuff in regards to that. One example is Lobo who I think he knew about before anyone else. Oh, and he usually knows "a friend of a friend", kind of deal.
If he's going off images and knows it's an X & Y Pokemon, he can identify it. Hell, if he knows it's a Pokemon he can identify it.
Assuming these rumors are true, what does the final roster look like?
That's the problem... We're still completely in the dark when it comes to veterans.
As long as you're acknowledging the "if", I'm fine with speculation about this.
It was someone saying 48 characters but 4 cuts, but apparently their Mario Kart information which was the main point of their post was wrong.whats the Mario kart leak? I still don't know
As long as Sakurai is adhering to a minimalist cut system; Pokemon Trainer may be the only significant cut. I believe most veterans will return, he just needed to clean the roster slightly. And that he did.
I was looking around for more information about CAW to help chris and found this.
So the whole visual thing is thrown out the window. I'm so curious as to how he's getting his information, or if the leaker is being vague on purpose.
From what Sal told me, it's primarily through email. His source appears to be busy, because when Sal tried to inquire about the absence of Little Mac, Mii and Pac-Man from last year's E3, he hadn't heard back from him until this last set of characters he'd received word on. Sal isn't a sure what this person does, but just knows their getting info from somewhere. Considering all of the information seems to come close to E3, there might be a connection there.
But Zelda doesn't have another open slot- Link, Zelda, Sheik, and Toon Link are 4 since Sheik is now separate on the select screen. Ganondorf makes 5. You can't expect Zelda to get more reps than Mario. That's laughable. Even in Brawl Mario, Pokemon, and Zelda had the same number (Pokemon Trainer was only one rep but had 3 movesets like how Zelda and Samus were both one character with 2 movesets).
I agree. I think Pokemon Trainer was cut for solo Charizard reason being possible loading issues for 3DS/balance issues and then Snake for 3rd Party. I can't see Sakurai putting more characters on the chopping block for no reason. Specifically Lucas, especially with all the Mother 3 content that was added in Brawl.
Not only that, we don't know if there will be more newcomers as well. He only confirmed a number of newcomers, basically only giving some info he could get a hold of. I made a rough prediction on the final roster which is mostly based on this leak, the direct trophies theory and some omissions that stood out to me in the direct itself which you can find in my signature. But even then it's still so far-fetched because we really don't know nearly enough about the roster.
So is it possible he works in the coding in the game or something along those lines? Who knows honestly, I guess that's not what we're discussing. It would make sense for him to have more information if E3's approaching. I'm just waiting now.
Retro characters, as has been stated many times by many people, are the exception. It also helps if they are there to represent their series, rather than being yet another character in an already represented series, like Roy or Pichu. So relevancy is important, but only in moderation, and there's not really any concrete rules, per se, as to who can be included or not. It's all up to Sakurai and co.
So this is just the most popular game of telephone in the Smash community, basically. Amazing that we've gotten our information as reliably as we have, assuming this is all true. But I guess someone has to do the digging to the source, and Sal's as close as we're getting.
Sakurai always counted Sheik, Zero Suit Samus, Charizard, Squirtle & Ivysaur seperate though
Precisely; Sakurai isn't removing characters because he wants to. He is omitting characters because he must. Lucas is much more safe than anyone gives him credit, he was one of Sakurai's personal selections. Removing him based on the notion that he is a psuedo-clone would be utterly preposterous (as they are merely reminiscent of each-other, they have different play-styles). Aside from that, we have Toon Link precedent that overtly shows that clone-status is immaterial. No one can give any other reason unless they attempt to establish that Mother isn't an important franchise to Nintendo (this is irrelevant as Mother is important to Smash; it also relies on the approximation that a necessary attribute of the roster is proportional representation of Nintendo franchises, i.e. Mother shouldn't have two when Metroid has 2
. The very notion that Smash should be proportionally represented is inherently fallacious. If that was the case; we would have 15 plus Mario characters, 10 plus Pokemon character, and 10 plus Zelda characters.I wouldn't say he'd be limited to coding, but I am saying that I wouldn't rule out X/Y Pokemon as a placeholder slot when Sal's source got the info.
he never said 4 hints he just said we werent noticing something hinted at in the trailer and people immediately decided the trophies = chaarcters but it could be something completely different...
who knows...Someone found this on gamefaqs? I don't understand tbh, is it a joke or what? Is this what the Nintendo Employee is talking about?
Release date?
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/633202-super-smash-bros-for-wii-u/68996207
You forgot Megaman, that's 11. Rosalina makes 12, who he didn't predict.
I am just confused how he didn't get Rosalina if he did get the others.
whut. Why.
My expectation is the same as yours, except:
a reworked Ganondorf could FILL that "spot" and count as somewhat new...kind of like how charizard is a reworked veteran and got a trailer...well he shared it with greninja but ganondorf with a sword or something could count as why zelda got a trophy shown (if trophies = upcoming characters of course)
