Smash Bros DLC 5 Presentation announced: 01/16 6AM PT

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Hiku said:

ARamdomGamer said:

I will also say that it stings that the likes of Byleth and Corrin got a pass despite being super recent, but he puts that as a barrier for someone like Rex from Xenoblade 2.

I don't think he meant that new is necessarily a barrier in that regard. But rather that because he wasn't chosen for the DLC fighter pass, and is new, the window for when Rex would even be under consideration is more limited. When fans started requesting him, they may have had to wait until Fighter Pass 2 was greenlit before discussing his inclusion. So Sakurai added a Mii costume instead, because that wait would be long.

If Byleth had not been chosen for Fighter Pass 1, it may have also taken a while for him/her to get considered. But because Three Houses released closer to when discussion over who would make the Fighter Pass 2 shortlist began, Byleth fans may not have needed to wait as long as Rex fans to see him/her in the game.

Well by the time they announced the first Fighters Pass, at least according to Nintendo and Sakurai, every spot was already chosen, same with Pass 2 now, Three Houses wasn't even out at that time, so it comes off for me as a really bad excuse that Rex wasn't considered because he was new at the time, it was almost a year after the release of Xenoblade 2.