Sakurai: "No way" future Smash Bros. games will have as many fighters as Ultimate

[Xxain]

CaptainExplosion said:

Xxain said:

I was going to say this too. 

Mario

Pikachu

Samus

Link

Kirby

Donkey Kong

Yoshi

Fox

This is the original 8. It represents what was popular with Nintendo at the time.

A new 8 would look something like this:

Mario

Link

Current release Pokemon

Current release Fire Emblem

Splatoon

animal crossing

Kirby

Xeno

Only focusing on what is going on with the current Nintendo/industry would bring in a lot of different and fresh IP's. Also I think limiting the each IP representation to 3 max would be a good move too.

But what about old characters who haven't had any new games but are still popular? You can't cut Fox and Captain Falcon.

...... Why cant they be cut? They're not relevant. I would personally spare fox just because he had a recent game, but F Zero and Earthbound are definite cuts. All third party should be cut and redecided based on relevancy and also being fresh; I dont think Sonic should come back. Hes Ran his course. Pick a new Sega rep.

  Lets just say the Smash reboot will feature 30 characters. Minus the absolutes like Mario and Link, they should be 30 NEW characters. Long running IP's need to have a reset button at some point and Smash is at that point in regards to characters and game design.