Sakurai calls DLCs these days a scam

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Torillian said:
so the issue I have with the "it released so soon after release why wasn't it on the disc?" argument is that games are finished long before they actually come to print, and it would make sense to have some of the team working on additional content during that down time. There's simply no direct evidence that the DLC was ready before the fll game went to print and it was decided to be omitted for most of these games. I mean who's to say that Nintendo hadn't made all its DLC during the full development, decided to keep it out to sell it later, and then just waited longer than the companies everyone is accusing of being so evil?

Essentially I think he's speaking of day one DLC. If it's ready as day one DLC it likely could have been included in the game. After that, it seems, there are less issues with DLC. 

I'm generally inclined to agree actually. I'm not that big on DLC in any form to be honest, but I really don't like day one DLC. Although, some expansion DLC has been really good. 

As you stated, whether it's developed during initial development for the base game is really unknown except for those that are developing and publishing it.