Excuse me if someone has already pointed this out, I've been away for a couple days.
This YouTube video is now confirmed to be real, because it has the same announcer as the new Brawl videos, and because the roster is consistent with Famitsu reports.
There are 23 characters in the starting roster. The are room for 8 more slots on the side, which would be 31 altogether. That's not very many, so I'm assuming they'll add another group of three to the side. That brings it to 34. Add another 3 and it's 37, etc., etc.
Could they add more to the bottom? If they did, it would require for 10 more characters in addition to the unlockable 8, which would bring the total to 41 characters.
Either way, you don't get 35. What if there's some holes, like Melee? I highly doubt that will be the case, considering that a random slot now exists. You would think that if there were holes, they would be the random spots, but that's clearly not the case.
My guess? 37 characters. Who are they? Well, we have Sonic and Snake which brings us to 25. Lucario, Ness and Jiggly bring us to 28. Luigi and Falcon are givens, which brings us to 30. Ganondorf and a Star Fox character are probable, which is 32. That only leaves 5 spots, which could be returning or new characters. So hopefully I'm wrong and they make room for 40 (another 3 slots up from 37).
Again, if this has already been adressed, my apologies. Someone can lock this or whatever.
This YouTube video is now confirmed to be real, because it has the same announcer as the new Brawl videos, and because the roster is consistent with Famitsu reports.
There are 23 characters in the starting roster. The are room for 8 more slots on the side, which would be 31 altogether. That's not very many, so I'm assuming they'll add another group of three to the side. That brings it to 34. Add another 3 and it's 37, etc., etc.
Could they add more to the bottom? If they did, it would require for 10 more characters in addition to the unlockable 8, which would bring the total to 41 characters.
Either way, you don't get 35. What if there's some holes, like Melee? I highly doubt that will be the case, considering that a random slot now exists. You would think that if there were holes, they would be the random spots, but that's clearly not the case.
My guess? 37 characters. Who are they? Well, we have Sonic and Snake which brings us to 25. Lucario, Ness and Jiggly bring us to 28. Luigi and Falcon are givens, which brings us to 30. Ganondorf and a Star Fox character are probable, which is 32. That only leaves 5 spots, which could be returning or new characters. So hopefully I'm wrong and they make room for 40 (another 3 slots up from 37).
Again, if this has already been adressed, my apologies. Someone can lock this or whatever.