Seriously, why is King K. Rool NOT in Smash as his own character??

[ToraTiger]

97alexk said:

ToraTiger said:

ninjapirate42 said:

Yeah exactly. All of the clones took a fraction of the work of a new character. Like stated before, they didn't make it in the game over anyone else. They put them in the game because it was easy to reskin an existing character and make very minor minor tweaks.

Dude you do realize that those are excuses that the devs put forth after the backlash that fans had to the weak rooster peppered with some clones??  Sakurai knew the rooster was incomplete and lackluster so the clones were the only things they could do to make it "seem" complete.  That is just straight laziness on their part, and you can't be serious to think that they didn't have to reach a quota they could comfortably advertise?   Instead of saying "Yeah we removed a few characters for no good reason, and added some clones to fill the rest"...

 

Why is everyone so forgiving of Nintendo? 

Well no one at nintendo ever said that, you are just speculating, I trust sakurai on this one

I agree that they didn't take effort, but you are blind if you think they didn't have to reach a character quota of fighters in the game.  They used the clones because they didn't have the creativity, manpower or time to make 3-4 completely new fighters