MTZehvor said:
It was only two months ago that Dark Souls' announcement trailer for Switch dropped with no gameplay, yes? I'll grant that it may not be frequent, but it's certainly not out of the realm of possibility. I'd buy the speculation argument if we weren't so close to launch. If you wait until E3 to reveal gameplay, you have 5 months at most to show off every single new character that you want to display before launch. You'll have to pack in so many trailers in quick succession you risk overloading audience attention and having some characters forgotten or ignored due to the announcement of others, or alternatively not advertise them at all. There's a reason Brawl and Smash 4 chose to draw out the character reveal process over a year plus, and Smash 5 choosing to buck history and try to compact all of that inside five months doesn't make a lot of sense. |
They said from the start that dark souls was a port. They didn't just drop a cg trailer and say nothing.
There isn't much point in comparing Nintendo's past marketing of smash, there marketing is just so different now. This may be more like the marketing of Pokemon. Which for the last few games has had announcement trailer early in the year and is then marketed throughout that year. Pokemon games have potentially over 100 characters to advertise with each game.
Looking at a lot of recent announcements the gap between the first teaser and the game coming out has been pretty small. Kirby announced at June 2017, released March 2018. Fire emblem warriors January 2017, released September 2017. Xenoblade 2 announced January 2017, released December 2017.
The problem with showing off smash too early is that it could distract a lot from other games. Just look at this direct, I've barely heard a word about anything but smash.
Unless a game is stated as a port there is absolutely no reason to believe it is a port.
