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Originally posted by: Luigi Dude
I wonder if this means they'll be showing 2 new characters every week until release now. Because if it is then we can now get a good idea of how many characters will be in the game.
Since Nintendo's latest release shows this wont be coming out anytime between now and September, the earliest the game could come out is October. Now there are exactly 18 more Wednesday's before the first Wednesday in October, meaning if you add Mario and Link to that, you'd have 38 characters total for a first week October release.
But I think closer to launch they might lower it to one character per week but still, if it goes like this it seems that the game will have an October release with what looks like somewhere around 40 characters.
Plus this actually makes sense since Nintendo has said Mario Galaxy will also come out this year. Now Nintendo would never release both games too close to each other but two months apart sounds about right. Which is why I'm seeing Smash Bros getting an October release while Mario gets a December release.
I'm going to go on the record now and say Smash Bros Brawl is going to be released on either October 15, 22, or 29th and have somewhere between 38 - 42 characters.
This assuming that they show hidden characters before the game is released, which they did not do for SSBM to the best of my recollection. I'm Guessing they are going to show the starters, which by my estimate will be between 12 and 16, but the optimistic (read: I do not want to get my hopes up) high end may be as big as 20 (which is not counting ZS Samus as a separate character, which they did for Shiek, which would bump up my estimation by one, not to mention if the old incarnation of Zelda/Shiek are in the game, are starters, and are each counted as separate as well). That number will probably include the original eight plus ZSS, the four known new characters (assuming Snake is a starter, which I feel he will be), and some random returning (probably non-clone) characters from SSBM to round out the opening roster. In fact I think that the opening roster is a topic that everyone should now start seriously (or as seriously as a game like this could and should be taken) discussing and guessing about.
All this says to me is that maybe the game will come out sooner then we expected or the Smash Bros. Dojo is going to run out of character based updates faster than we are going to want it to, untill the game is released that is.
I guess what I am trying to say is do not get your hopes up for a huge amount of character based updates, because you will probably be disappointed.
Take that from someone who used to hang out on the IGN forums (back before Insider, and back before I found Planet Gamecube) each Tuesday and Thursday and wait for the SSBM Page to update, gleam as much as I could from the pictures and broken Bable Fish translation as I could, discuss findings with everyone on the forum then wait a little longer for a fellow forum goer, whose name I believe was Zophar or Zohar, to translate the update and put it on the web (he even had the site setup to look exactly like the Japanese web site).
If I remember correctly there was about a month where no characters were even mentioned and the only updates would be on things like all the items as a whole, or trophies in general, or something else not as cool as a character, and now it looks like they are going to talk about each stage, item, and mode separately, which should give us a whole boatload of non-character updates in the coming months, not to mention the music based updates, the updates for "how to Play", and whatever the "Notices" section is going to be for. So... where was I, oh yeah, just do not expect very many updates with character information.
That talk about hanging out on a forum just reminded me how long ago it was since SSBM came out. Has it really been six years?
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