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No it would not. Therefore, it has no bearing on the leak or relevance to the thread. And as for the bolded, people need to understand that just because everything of relevance has been said, it is not an excuse to post irrelevant information. You don't have to post here. Further off-topicness will result in infractions, as this serves as a public warning.
Really it seems unlikely that the source knows anymore characters, otherwise they would have included them in the message right before E3 more than likely. There's always a small chance they will have more newcomers to reveal in their next tip, but it seems quite unlikely at this point. My money is on they will have no more new characters to speak of come their inevitable next e-mail (unless they have knowledge of DLC, which does not currently appear to be the case).
Don't think any characters will be DLC. Only stages, costumes maybe, events.
The most recent E3 leak stated "character DLC." This doesn't necessarily mean playable characters...could mean costumes FOR characters. But it still said "character DLC."
I think that may also include something like what they are doing with Amiibo. To lock a character behind a paywall would be very unlikely. Unless the characters were free. Then I guess I could see it.
And that's one of the few things keeping me on the fence about that whole family of leaks. It seems too unlikely in my opinion.
Oh no... it's time.
I would have agreed with you not too long ago, but you must remember that this is the new Nintendo we are talking about. The trying-to-adapt-to-stay-relevant Nintendo, the in-a-not-so-great-financial-situation Nintendo is the one making these games. Look at things like New Super Mario Bros. 2, Rusty's Real Deal Baseball, even StreetPass Mii Plaza. It is clear that Nintendo is no longer hesitant to offer paid downloadable content, at least not to the extent that it was in the past. Super Smash Bros. is by far the #1 candidate they have right now to make a significant amount of money off of paid DLC, and what type of content for character-driven games sells the most? Characters. I have absolutely no problem believing that they are considering character DLC for these games, and I will be among those happily rejoicing if they announce plans to sell additional characters.
It's seriously been addressed many times already, Forbes even did a whole article math included, but Nintendo is not even close to dire straights financially, so this is all false.
NSMB2, Rusty's, and StreetPass are not huge competitive releases of Nintendo. If they make a game where in order to have all of the available characters competitively in a tournament you have to pay 3 bucks, or if you go online and you can't play as a character because you didn't pay, or if they lock a veteran that people have played for years, or if they lock a new hyped newcomer, the backlash would be huge! Mario Golf has paid DLC, but that was purely cosmetic with maybe a slight curve of your swing, this is Smash where a new character adds a whole new element to every other character and the entire balance of the game.
This, too.
I can't see character DLC being free at all. That **** takes a ton of time, energy, and hard work to get those characters designed and balanced. That means hiring and staffing a ton of workers to add to a game that is already on the market and a majority of people have already purchased.
Of course character DLC will cost money. People thinking otherwise are being ridiculous. That said, if its a veteran character being put up as post-release DLC, Sakurai might just honor it and say "yeah, this character was planned to be in the game but we missed the deadline," take 'em for free. Otherwise, they'll all be paid, and I doubt we'll have that many DLC characters either. Probably 3-4 tops.
Care to elaborate? If the reasons are "I don't want to pay the money," that is an awful reason.
It is good if it is Paid DLC made after the game is released as opposed to stuff that is already completed but kept back for extra money.
If you require a patch to go out to anyone that wants to play online when DLC characters are released I don't see much of an issue with it, but I could be wrong. What in your opinion are the issues?
I did say in my post that this wasn't the reason.
I have plenty of money that I'm willing to spend on DLC. I agree; that would be an awful reason.
Interview with Katsuhiro Harada of Tekken fame.
Well, with Namco developing the game, I guess free DLC is a possibility. But I honestly doubt it.
The thought here is good, but the reasoning is backwards. I can see them avoiding DLC so that they don't dip too far into the character pool to take away from future games. But not because they are scared of future games selling.
I have a feeling the DLC would be small and probably mostly consist of characters that were cut, example: Squirtle/Ivysaur/Lucas
My argument wasn't that they desperately need money, just that they are evolving and certainly wouldn't mind extra money in times when they aren't making as much as they'd like. I don't believe your counter-point proves my entire statement false.
I'm sure that this is how it would be handled if it were to happen. Knowing Sakurai, I doubt they are holding back characters just for the sake of selling them later. The game will be released with as much content as they were able to finish by their deadlines. I don't know if they'll include anything as enticing as costumes to get people to update their game, but undoubtedly updates would be utilized so that people could play against others without a problem if one person has DLC and the other doesn't.
This is Smashboards. Those characters satisfy all of about 5% of the users here.
This, too, is something I am confident about. Downloadable characters would max out at around 4, probably, there's no way they release much more than that so as to not create major backlash or give the series less room for future expansion. Not to mention the limited space on the 3DS Game Card, though it is possible they could work around that by storing DLC data on the SD Card.
If they charge for DLC characters, they had better follow the Mortal Kombat model.
This is why I've been assuming that DLC will only be for characters that weren't in the game but were in previous games, such as Mewtwo or Roy. No newcomers as DLC sounds like a good philosophy, right?
Or characters that were planned for this game that were cut. Another possibility? Characters who are very easy to design post-release, such as Dixie Kong. She'd have a great original moveset, and would be easy to design because of her body model being almost identical to Diddy Kong but with a different color scheme. Those are the only things that I can really see for post-release DLC; cut veterans, unfinished SSB4 characters, and easy-to-design newcomers.
The games are essentially finished by now, so now would be the time they would be deciding what they want to do as far as post-release support goes. What I find funny is how the leaker says they are still not sure whether they want to cut Ness or Lucas. This decision should have been made 1-2 years ago. Either his information is quite outdated or they are in fact cutting characters so they can release them as DLC. I'm leaning toward the first of those two possibilities being the case, especially looking at "Pokemon from X/Y."
I don't think they would add more custom moves (or an entirely new Mii Fighter option, which would essentially be a new character), but costumes do seem rather likely. As for the amiibo manufacturing, I don't think they'd mind releasing more money-making merchandise such as that. But yeah, I could see them releasing either costume packs or maybe even packs with new characters and costumes. Whatever you do, Sakurai, just please let me have my Dry Bowser costume in these games!
That character DLC is being considered and that the leaker feels that they are being greedy.
