Nintendo hat vor Kurzem erst Smash Bros. Melee – Veteran Mewtwo als DLC Charakter angekündigt. Dies hat natürlich bei einigen Smash Fans Hoffnung geweckt, dass weitere Charaktere und eventuell Stages in Zukunft als DLC angekündigt werden. Diese Hoffnungen wurden nun von Serien-Erfinder Sakurai zerschlagen:

„I understand that DLC could add a lot to the appeal of Smash Bros., and I appreciate that a major part of the excitement for these games come from which characters will appear in the roster, so I think fans could really enjoy DLC that could keep this excitement going. 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.

Creating a single fighter involves a huge investment, and we’ve already been giving it our all and investing a lot of work in the characters currently available in the game and, I think it’s an incredible package in terms of the sheer amount of content in the game. But it might be that people may not understand and may think that I am not offering enough by just looking at DLC itself.

In light of this, we always need to weigh up both sides of this topic and carefully consider whether it really is best to have DLC or not.

However, what I can say now about paid DLC is that we aren’t working on anything at the moment. We’ve put all our efforts into making the actual game. 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.—Masahiro Sakurai“

Daniel Vetter

Passionierter Videospieler seit dem dritten Lebensjahr. Angefangen mit dem Nintendo Entertainment System zog sich die Leidenschaft bis ins Erwachsenenalter. Heute als PR-Manager, freier Redner und Texter unterwegs. Zu den Lieblingsreihen gehören Metroid, Smash Bros, Super Mario und Halo 1-3.