Sakurai: "No way" future Smash Bros. games will have as many fighters as Ultimate

[Dulfite]

Xxain said:

Dulfite said:
I feel like the best way to handle it is to keep the core Nintendo characters, but scrap any outdated Nintendo/3rd party characters and replace them with current gen characters.

I was going to say this too. 

Mario

Pikachu

Samus

Link

Kirby

Donkey Kong

Yoshi

Fox

This is the original 8. It represents what was popular with Nintendo at the time.

A new 8 would look something like this:

Mario

Link

Current release Pokemon

Current release Fire Emblem

Splatoon

animal crossing

Kirby

Xeno

Only focusing on what is going on with the current Nintendo/industry would bring in a lot of different and fresh IP's. Also I think limiting the each IP representation to 3 max would be a good move too.

Yeah I like that! Then add popular third party ones until you get  a manageable number. Then do it for another game the next time and the next time. Then they can do another ultimate where they have them all from those games plus some new ones. Like every 15-20 years have a Ultimate one, but the rest can be these smaller more focused ones probably Melee roster level.