Smash Ultimate Direct August 8th 2018 announced at Evo

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mZuzek said:

160rmf said:

That's not the final picture in the box, he was pretty specific in the direct that will be more characters for the release. They will only print the box with the updated image close to release, they wouldn't make the mistake of leaking the final roster that way.

They implied there will be no more new stages announced though, which if true would mean there will be no more characters from franchises that aren't already in Smash.

Implying and what actually happens in regards to Smash are two different things they implied back at E3 the would likely be no new characters added and this week we got 5 with a confirmation a few more are on the way so we can't really take what is implied as an absolute.