Topic: Super Smash Bros. for Wii U - OT

Only a week til the game awards, with any luck the direct will beforehand or shortly after.

I just want that Smash Direct, sooo baaaad. Stupid Brawl FD is so hype.
But if it's an entire direct about Smash4, then what would be involved in the direct apart from the ballot characters?
New game modes, Balancing (C'mon Mewtwo, C'mon Zelda, C'MON SAMUS!), more DLC probably, but what is there to talk about?

@KO-Cub: Same type of thing the one during E3 week talked about. Talks about new DLC characters, new stages, new Mii costumes, and probably the amiibo for Roy and Ryu.

Would be nice if special matches were online and the 3DS got stamina matches at least, for miis I really been wanting boxing gear and a headband to fix and make a couple miis!, other then that you should know what I want!

Given new Splatoon content is stopping in January, I'm doubting there being any Smash DLC next year. Remember how in early 2015 we were so certain MK8 DLC packs 3 and 4 were happening and in May instead we got confirmation of the team working on mobile projects. Part of me is thinking maybe we're only getting 1 ballot character which took a gigantic lead several months before the end and the rest are like Roy where people didn't ask for them but it's still fanservice.

@Grumblevolcano: Wasn't Splatoon content ending next January and not this January?, but ya, say we will only get a couple more packs, but after that hopefully there will at least be a couple to fix any bugs and to do any needed balancing before leaving.

I think they will add more characters than just cloud and the ballot winner.
I'm sure they didn't add 6 slots for nothing.

They exactly added 3 slots mewtwo was out, for lucas, ryu and roy.

@Grumblevolcano: Splatoon content was not said to be for sure stopping in January. Bill said that they'd continue until at least January. When the game launched they said through Summer. Then the August update came and they said through Fall. Now they're saying until at least January. I'd say it's more likely to continue after that than not.

Also, Mario Kart 8's DLC pattern is not indicative of how Smash's DLC will run. They are in no way related, meaning MK8's DLC is irrelevant here. Splatoon's content is also irrelevant to Smash DLC.

The only thing we can go off of is Smash DLC and what has been said about it.

First, Sakurai said (after Lucas/Roy/Ryu launched) that he can't keep the team around forever, so he can only make "several" more characters, and that everything from here on out is "fan service". There's been some concerns over the translation of "several" and "fan service", meaning that it may not have been an accurate translation, and we don't know what he meant if those are accurate.

Second, we know that there was a several month gap between the launch of Lucas/Roy/Ryu and the closing of the ballot. I find ot pretty hard to believe that they weren't working on characters during that time besides Cloud.

Third, we don't know when Cloud started development, for how long he was planned, or if he's a Ballot character. I doubt that he is one though.

Fourth, we know that the upcoming Smash Direct is the last one for the game. They did not however say that this will be the last of the Smash DLC.

Fifth, there are still two character slots left. One of those is still leftover from the Mewtwo patch in April. Or perhaps both, if Cloud is actually the third slot that was added in either the Tournament patch or the Mario Maker patch (forgot which).

@Gridatttack: Yeah, with Cloud in there's supposed to be two open slots left.

As I remember in the Mewtwo patch there were character and stage slots added. For characters they added 7, Mewtwo plus 6 "Marios". We then got Lucas, Roy, Ryu, and Cloud. That leaves two.

For stages Im not 100%, but but I believe it was seven. For the 3ds version specifically. We got Peach's Castle, Hyrule, Dreamland 64, Suzaku Castle, Mario Maker, and Duck Hunt was added as a bonus, but didn't take up a slot since it was a free bonus for the lack of Pirate Ship. In the last DLC patch a new stage slot was added, which leaves us with two stages after Midgar.

@Iceclimbers Afaik no new character slots have been added since the Mewtwo patch, but we got one new stage slot recently so we know its possible.

@Undead_terror: Shibata said January in the EU Direct so I think Bill was referring to January 2016 when saying "next January"

@IceClimbers: The reason I was thinking the end of Smash DLC was the content of the Direct all released straight after the presentation was due to the end of other DLC/content updates in addition to a lack of 2016 games for Wii U suggesting that the NX train maybe earlier than people expect, a full console reveal in February/March for example. I'd love to be wrong though, both in the form of NX news and Smash DLC.

I thought it takes about, between 1 year and 5 months to create a character.

@Grumblevolcano: Oh they're definitely revealing the NX in February/March, or at least prior to E3. That does not mean that Smash DLC is ending with the upcoming Direct.

@Tsuchinoko: Hmmm AFAIK, the six extra slots were added after Ryu and Roy got released?

Right now I think they are 5 slots left now that cloud is revealed, but I cant find the source anymore.

@Gridatttack: nope. Before. Look up. We talked about it in detail on this thread as well.

Well... It's not like they can't add more spaces on the go. They'll probably want to keep the character selection screen(s) looking nice and uniform.

@Morpheel: exactly. It is very possible the December direct is for the last DLC, but we still don't know for sure yet.

Unless there's a change in slots or future DLC, in December its most likely Cloud + two, and Midgar + one or two stages.

I wouldn't get my hopes up for adding even more slots... I wouldn't be surprised if we get only 2 more dlc characters, or even one. They won't keep adding them forever.

@TheGreatLord: oh yeah, I totally agree. In my mind we're getting Cloud and two more mystery characters (again, based on the remaining slots in the game data), and thats it. New stages, a balance patch, a thank you message from Sakurai and if we're lucky a surprise game mode or something. If there's anything beyond December ill be pleasantly surprised, but Im ready for the game to finally be "complete".

I'm actually starting to think that there may be a new game mode from the special direct. How are they going to spend 30-60 minutes of a direct on smash bros? They can't be talking about cloud and the stage for the whole time. I think we might get a new mode but I wouldn't get my hopes up on it. I feel like it may be a story mode but I'm probably being too hopeful. We will get at least one more character announcement for sure though.

I said the same thing. Talking about the appreciation from the fans and the development team, Cloud and Midgar with high detail, and maybe Ballot Characters.
But there is no hint of anything from Sakurai's remaining development team saying they'd talk about anything else like extra modes or balancing, and surprisingly, nothing has been leaked. Even Cloud, leak-less and that's quite surprising despite even Square even had something to do with that.