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

[Shiken]

Kai_Mao said:

Shiken said:

That still does not give me all of the content on the cart I payed 60 dollars for.  Your argument is invalid to my point.

That's the thing too. Smash Bros. is supposed to be a big AAA Nintendo game. People have criticized Splatoon and ARMS launching at $60 so it would be hard to imagine Smash Bros. either releasing at a lower price or getting away from the same criticisms just because its Smash Bros.

Either of those would have resulted in much more criticism toward Smash than Splatoon and ARMs got too.  Those were New IPs, so people were just happy to see them being supported.

 

Smash on the otherhand has a standard that has been set for over a decade.  Plus this was arguably Switch's megaton game in an otherwise slow year, so if they tried to release an incomplete game with incremental updates to make it complete, the backlash would have been MASSIVE.

 

Nintendo made the right choice here, and to be honest, this would always be the right choice.  Just because people accepted the method used for Splatoon, that does not mean they would prefer it over having everything at launch if given the choice.