Ness is gone, I think. Promotion has always been a big part of the Smash Bros. series. Maybe NoA are preparing to localize Mother 3? Or maybe Sakurai is simply throwing starved Earthbound fans a new bone...
Anyway, guys, I wanted to ask you; Am I the only one who thinks there's a huge disparity in the music quality for Brawl and Galaxy? I mean, Galaxy *sounds* like its orchestrated (don’t actually know if it is) - Brawl isn't, except for the main theme. Perhaps this is one of the things that will be addressed during the extended development time, but given the effort going into this game, I’m quite surprised it was ever an issue. I dunno, maybe none of you noticed, but I thought it was worth pointing out.
PS. Galaxy has really, really awesome music. It might be the best of any single Nintendo game to date, IMO. I find it both funny and appropriate that Mario would lead the charge in this area as well - Galaxy being Nintendo’s first true Wii title and such.