MTZehvor said:
Several reasons. First, it's not really four years. Smash 4 was still being worked on with DLC up until 2016, and while in this hypothetical scenario they could have split the dev team between working on a new game and DLC, it'd still be a limited effort for the first two years. Second, Masahiro Sakurai was so exhausted at the end of Smash 4 development that he quite literally said he was considering quitting video game development. Either Nintendo would have had to somehow convince him to come back basically immediately after that and make anew Smash game, or basically immediately find a new director who could somehow have a new game out within two years of the last one being supported. Finally and somewhat unrelated to development, this kind of approach to marketing really just doesn't make sense for Smash. Smash, like most fighting games, tends to use a long lead-in period before release to build up hype with new character announcements and trailers. A game scheduled for 2018 would have a grand total of eight or so months to build up hype, and I can't imagine Nintendo shorting such a big hitter with that little marketing time. |
Go and read Sakurai's recent tweet and his last statement about when he was taking a break, back in 2016 he said his next project was already decided as he was returning and his recent tweet he says he's been working on the game everyday, nothing you've said here debunks what I posted as when this game releases later this year it would be near enough 4 years which with an engine already available is more than enough time. As I said XBC2 with the same engine as XBX was made with half the team in 3 years so the same is possible with Smash, DLC doesn't require the whole studio.
Your comment about marketing doesn't make much sense tbh because the whole marketing for the Switch has been different and it's been for the better Smash is a big enough title it doesn't need years to hype up it's the biggest fighting game franchise around.
