Does Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. look like it’s a game primed for DLCs? After all we can only imagine that DLCs will add new characters, new costumes, new maps, new modes, and whatnot, and it makes perfect sense, but unfortunately it looks like that won’t be happening anytime soon.
This was recently confirmed by the game’s director Masahiro Sakurai who felt that DLCs would seem to imply that Nintendo had purposely cut content from the main game in order to push the sale of DLCs, which we have to say does make for a good point. According to Sakurai in an interview with VideoGamer, “However, I think there might be criticism that we are cutting up content to sell characters one by one, or that we are adding things later that should have been there from the start.”
Sakurai also added that the costs and resources involved in making a DLC might not be able to be justified, at least not if they’re hoping to price it reasonably as well as to avoid proving the critics right in the reasoning he gave above. “Creating DLC would involve large additional costs and require the involvement of a lot of people. I can’t yet give you an answer about whether the price would justify the costs and criticisms mentioned above.”
Now to say Nintendo is completely against DLCs would be wrong. The company will be giving away the Mewtwo character to gamers who have registered both the 3DS and Wii U version of the game, but beyond that it does not look like the company has any DLCs planned for the near future, but what do you guys think?
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