Post-Brawl Interview with Sakurai!

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#1 JohnBean42
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This was an interview with Sakurai, from GoNintendo:

"It's taken over three years to make Brawl but I actually stopped trying to include new ideas early on in development. What happened in the next year and a half was that we distilled the game down, worked out which ideas we had time to include and which we didn't. Sadly, we had to trim out many great concepts just to keep within the time contraints. I had a lot more characters, for example.. but sadly I can't discuss which ones didn't make it. There are 39 characters in the game this time around and just adding a few more wouldn't be enough to justify a new game in my opinion; I'd have to draw a line in the sand and have a new approach to make it worthwhile. As long as the fans enjoy it, though, that's what matters and in the distant future, I guess that might be something I have to consider." - Masahiro Sakurai, Smash Bros. creator

What he is saying is that characters were cut from Brawl, and a sequel would have to have a new approach. Any idea's on what characters were originally supposed to be in Brawl, and what new features could be included in a future sequel?

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#5 Skie7
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Too bad there's no comment about their failure to implement lag-free online. They should be kicking themselves for how poor the online was for SSBB.