Should Smash Have Been Released in August with Fewer Characters and Slowly Built to 75 with Free DLC?

[Shiken]

NightlyPoe said:

Shiken said:
Absolutely NOT. Remember SFV?

Street Fighter V followed a different model.  Not free DLC that was early and often.

Comparisons are not valid.

Edit: I just edited the topic post with the following since it seems to be a frequent complaint:

A lot of people seem to be bringing up Street Fighter V.  I don't see the comparison.  Free, frequent updates in the Splatoon model for about 6 months is a completely different beast than keeping half the characters behind paywalls.  For the record, I find Street Fighter V's model to be rather scummy and would not like to see it in a Smash game, or any other game for that that matter.  Heck, I think the current Smash DLC plan is over-expensive and exploitative.

Again, reiterating.  The suggestion is that the use of frequent updates in the Splatoon/Arms/Mario Tennis model would have been best.

Ok, give me all content on the cart.  Releasing things incomplete and updating overtime has never/will never/is not the best method IMO.  Any DLC, free or paid, should be EXTRA content.

 

Smash Ultimate was advertised as an Ultimate Smash with all previous characters returning, so they did the right and best thing by giving us all content on the cart.