Super Smash Bros coming to Switch in 2018

[Lonely_Dolphin]

Wyrdness said:

Lonely_Dolphin said:

Sure if they immediately started on the new game, but they made dlc up until 2016. That's most likely why despite it having been the normal timeframe of 3 years between Mario Karts, we got MK8D instead of MK9. They might still be able to frame it as a sequel though if there's enough new content, but expect it to be clearly using Smash Wii U as a base, much like Splatoon 2 uses the original.

Splatoon had DLC didn't stop them making a new game, DLC doesn't mean the whole studio is working on it.

It's safe to say Smash wont be using the free update strategy a.k.a. releasing the game while it's still being developed, thus my Mario Kart example is the better comparison. Of course not the whole studio, but it obviously means the game is gonna take longer to make without the aforementioned shortcuts.