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Wyrdness on 24 October 2017
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PAOerfulone said:

I'd rather have a Smash 5 than a port of Smash 4 too, but as it stands now, there's no reasoning or evidence to believe it's coming in 2018 or even 2019, whereas Smash 4 Deluxe is much more realistic. I'm simply keeping my hopes and expectations in check. At the end of it, I just want Smash Bros. on the Switch, just like a lot of people do.

And the difference between 3D World and Smash 4 is that  nobody was/is asking for a port of 3D World, meanwhile Smash 4 is the most heavily requested port from the Wii U. And while the 3DS has Smash 4, it's not THE definitive version of Smash 4. Almost everyone unanimously agrees that it is the Wii U version, which underperformed. The only advantage Smash 3DS has is that it is portable, an advantage that the Switch erases.

And there are flaws in your highlighted reasoning as well, wouldn't it have made more sense and been more attractive to have Mario Kart 9 from the ground up instead of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe? So, why isn't that the case? Because an enhanced port of Mario Kart 8 with all the DLC was more efficient, faster, and led to easy profits, in both hardware and software.

It's well on its way to outselling the original on the Wii U by a considerable margin, which shows two things:
A) That consumers who had it on Wii U were more than willing to double dip to get the definitive version on the latest and most relevant platform. (Me)
B) Consumers who wanted Mario Kart, but didn't want to buy a Wii U don't have to anymore, because the definitive version being on a system they are MUCH more interested in is just as appealing to them as a new entry in the series. Because for them, Mario Kart 8 IS a new entry in the series. (My cousin and his friends.)

The same can easily be said for Smash Bros.

The is evidence they're going for a Smash 5 as a port would have been out by now or announced you've even admitted yourself you'd prefer S5 than a port and a number of other people are the same and no doubt Nintendo themselves are aware of that.

Nintendo don't care that Wii U is seen as the definitive version they care about the total units moved and that is 13m more than any game in the series.

MK8D has some changes over the Wii U version despite being a port, MK also doen't have much variation in approach compared to Smash which changes from game to game so it's a lot easier to get away with it with MK but also MK8 is only on the Wii U unlike Smash 4 so people who didn't have a Wii U which is a lot of people would not have had the chance to purchase it unlike S4 which is highlighted by how the latter in total almost doubles the sales of the former.

Switch is going to outsell the Wii U early next year and a lot of Switch buyers will be 3DS owners as well who have access to S4 but not MK8.