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Wyrdness on 11 July 2018
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Wright said:
Wyrdness said:

The point is the man frequently says things that he either back tracks from or is just his own exclusive viewpoint everyone else including Nintendo sees those games as one entry, he said DLC will never be in Smash guess how that turned out.

You're not making any sense here tbh each game sells independently from each other so what bearing does MK have on Smash selling 15-20m? The logic doesn't add up fact is S4 sold 15m LT and is still selling meaning the last two entries have crossed 10m easily which makes your 9m prediction all the questionable.

I already stated it. Nautilus got it, so I'm not sure what you didn't understand.

EDIT:

I checked what you said about "he said DLC will never be in Smash" and I can't find any source about it. I did, however, find a "Sakurai didn't say that!" post that claims the following:

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Quote:

I understand that DLC could add a lot to the appeal of Smash Bros., and I appreciate that a major part of the excitement for these games come from which characters will appear in the roster, so I think fans could really enjoy DLC that could keep this excitement going. However, I think there might be criticism that we are cutting up content to sell characters one by one, or that we are adding things later that should have been there from the start.

Lack of Context:

This isn’t something that was explicitly taken out of context, but most fans did not read the full interview, or have twisted Sakurai’s words. Before the Wii U version of the game was released, Sakurai stated that there were “no plans for DLC”. However, if fans had went to the source of the interview, they would have read the full quote in context.

Here’s what Sakurai says in the same answer:

In light of this, we always need to weigh up both sides of this topic and carefully consider whether it really is best to have DLC or not.

However, what I can say now about paid DLC is that we aren’t working on anything at the moment. We’ve put all our efforts into making the actual game. Creating DLC would involve large additional costs and require the involvement of a lot of people. I can’t yet give you an answer about whether the price would justify the costs and criticisms mentioned above. (Emphasis mine)

Essentially, Sakurai stated that the base game was finished without any concrete plans for DLC. While we know from data-mining that there has always been capabilities for DLC, I do believe Sakurai created Smash without holding back any content as reiterated his Famitsu column, “The Creator’s Hands Are Alive and Well”.

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The actual source has said statement.

https://www.videogamer.com/news/super_smash_bros_sakurai_on_reggie_patch_support_and_the_problem_with_leaderboards

So it's not really what you said. It's mostly that there's a misconception that Sakura said that (along some other things, seems the dude gets misunderstood a lot).

Even what you posted backs my point as seen below he said they weren't working on anything then shortly later DLC turns up.

https://www.destructoid.com/super-smash-bros-sakurai-explains-studio-s-reversal-on-paid-dlc-291080.phtml

Sakurai, who has called modern DLC a "scam," said, "I think there might be criticism that we are cutting up content to sell characters one by one, or that we are adding things later that should have been there from the start."

Sakurai then snuck in a, "what I can say now about paid DLC is that we aren't working on anything at the moment." At the moment. Five months later and Lucas (previously in Brawl) is set to join Super Smash Bros. as paid DLC, while Nintendo has set up a webpage for fans to suggest characters to come to Smash as future DLC.