SSB4 May Not Feature New Characters

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Smash Bros series creator Masahiro Sakurai has told Nintendo Power that Smash Bros Wii U and 3DS probably won’t feature a host of new characters, because the team want to focus on quality, rather than quantity. Sakurai says that he would rather refine the existing roster, instead of adding additional characters.

“It isn’t a matter of ‘if the next game has 50 characters, that’ll be enough.’ There is a certain charm to games that have huge casts of playable characters, but they tend to have issues with game balance and it becomes very difficult to fine-tune each character and have them all feel distinctive.

“In terms of quantity, we’ve probably already reached the limit of what’s feasible. I think a change of direction may be what’s needed.”

quote StewieRox

Or maybe he just won't add any new characters/add a few new characters, make sure the game's quality is the best it can be, and then slowly release characters through DLC?

quote PwnageMaster67

I think Sakurai also said that they would be cutting the clones. Which would be Wolf, Lucas, Falco, Ganon and Toon Link. I personally dont think Ganon and Lucas are going, but we'll see what happens in the future.