This is pretty dumb anyway. Using assets already made for a previous game or whatever is just efficiency and has nothing to do with whether or not something is a new game or not. Why would a developer remake an asset when the new result will look exactly the same as the older one. Like, how much more detailed do you think they can make Kirby? Do you think they're remodelling 700+ Pokémon again and again and again for each Pokémon game?
Smash Ultimate is a new game as much as any other new game, and it blatently obvious from the very announcement.







