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Assist Trophy, Pokeball, & stage hazard characters in a row. Is this a patttern?

Garland/Chaos. He forms a pact with the 4 titans similar to the 4 fiends of FF1.

Or his best teammate in Team Battle.

Meh, wake me when they bring Misty back.

FYI, you can make Disney characters fight each other in Disney Infinity, so there's that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRMKbj_mWyU

Never even gotten to the Final Fantasy Fun Fest Fight in Hades Paradox, let alone beat it. Don't think I've cleared every Gummi mission either. In BBS I never came close to beating MF & only managed to get past VS as Ven with Tornado spam. I'm not sure if I'll ever get a platinum in any of the hd KH at this rate.

Getting sick of this misconception: Disney said no such thing, Square ASSUMED they would say no. Having played the Cartoon Network SSB clone, I think there's a bit of truth to this. The special moves of each character were rather unmemorable (save for Captain Planet). With SSB, the specials are derived from a character's abilities in his original games so they're recognizable. Doesn't entirely work the same way with characters from another media.

Cloud's popularity overrides the technicalities of being on Nintendo platforms. Far FAR more people would buy SSB for Cloud than for Cecil.

http://andriasang.com/comw97/iwata_asks_smash_bros/ This is an article from 2.5 years ago, back when Sakurai was still developing KIU. Its certainly very possible plans once he actually started work. However after the debut trailer 2 E3s later, Sakurai confirmed the existence of character customization but was vague about it: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/smashing-the-definition-of-smash-bros/1100-6410475/ At the very least the 3DS version is more single-player focused than Wii U. At the most, whatever is planned for the 3DS version is gonna turn the whole franchise on its head. Watch it be Cloud instead.

Nintendo has an entire R&D department whose day-to-day job is hardware design. Why is this ever surprising news to anyone?

& for what reason do the good guys have for actually following that?

Who?

I'd give my right foot for Captain N finally getting into SSB. Now there's a 1st-party character Nintendo'd been long neglecting. Also, Sami-Advance Wars Mii-Wii Sports Little Mac-Punch Out Robin-Fire Emblem Awakening Dillon-Dillon's Rolling Western Krystal-Star Fox Palutena-Kid Icarus

Toy Story *evil laugh*

230,000 isn't that good, especally which it won't be selling nearly that much post-black friday. Nintendo's targeted goal was to sell 9.5 million units by end of March. They're not even gonna get half that number at this rate.

As a Wii U owner I would certainly love a KH on it (& have had ideas for it, see attachment). But in the aftermath of Black Friday even Mario doesn't sell on that system anymore, so an exclusive 3rd party is just ain't gonna happen anymore. As for a Kairi game, we don't know how long the gap will be between DDD & KH3, & Kairi is probably getting sped-up training like Lea. I could see a game that's like DDD part 2: intially focuesed on Kairi's training which includes world travelling but something happens & she ends up having to deal with whatever big bad shows up.

Sonic 3 & Knuckles: Death Ball-->Greater Egg Robo-->Eggman-->Doomsday Zone. About 6 fights in total.

On a budget recycling of old games? No. & I rather have local anyway.

It's not Disney owned. The series Bonkers was created because Disney couldn't make a Roger Rabbit series.

Probably SA2B followed by STH2 & S3&K (not sure in which order for the last 2)

Disney characters/worlds beyond Mickey having no relevance to the main plot. There's something very wrong with the series on a whole when I'm having this worry with EVERY game.

Elise would have to be reimagined as an anthro character at minimum just to quiet the complainers (though I think everyone blew it way out of proportion) Or better yet, replace Elise with Sally, what's it gonna take to get her in a game SEGA?

Your extra $50 wasn't wasted, it's a trade-off between time & money. By paying more you got to play a Wii U earlier, by paying less you'd have to wait. Of course my personal policy is that it's stupid to buy a new system any sooner than it's 1st anniversary, it takes time for all consoles to build up their libraries & there's always the possibility of a price drop by then. If you buy at launch then you should be doing it knowing full well the sacrifices you're making for the sake of playing ASAP.

From the stork. It never ceases to bewilder me that nobody ever remembers YI when questioning reproduction in the Mario universe.

Leaf or bust. Or busty Leaf, that works too.