{"id":60459,"date":"2018-11-07T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/11\/masahiro_sakurai_reveals_nintendo_has_already_selected_dlc_fighters_for_super_smash_bros_ultimate"},"modified":"2018-11-07T03:05:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T03:05:00","slug":"masahiro-sakurai-reveals-nintendo-has-already-selected-dlc-fighters-for-super-smash-bros-ultimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/07\/masahiro-sakurai-reveals-nintendo-has-already-selected-dlc-fighters-for-super-smash-bros-ultimate\/","title":{"rendered":"Masahiro Sakurai Reveals Nintendo Has Already Selected DLC Fighters For Super Smash Bros. Ultimate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c9277919165db\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c9277919165db\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Super Smash Bros Ultimate IMG 1\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c9277919165db\/super-smash-bros-ultimate-img-1.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c9277919165db\/super-smash-bros-ultimate-img-1.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Super Smash Bros Ultimate IMG 1\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Last week during the final <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a><\/strong> Direct before the release of the game in December, Director Masahiro Sakurai confirmed a total of five DLC fighters would eventually be made available and that the team would be working &#8220;really hard&#8221; on the development of this content. This announcement unsurprisingly led to immediate speculation about the fighters that could potentially be added to the roster &#8211; with wild character requests once again being fired in Nintendo&#8217;s direction.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest news, the game&#8217;s director has now issued a number of tweets in English to perhaps prevent the onslaught of fighter requests from the game&#8217;s fans. Sakurai revealed the DLC line-up for Ultimate is already locked-in. Unlike the ballot used to help select the DLC characters for <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/super_smash_bros_for_wii_u\"><strong>Super Smash Bros. Wii U and 3DS<\/strong><\/a>, this time Nintendo&#8217;s picked the additional fighters. Here are the official tweets from Sakurai-san:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate\u2019s DLC line-up is now complete. This time the selection was made entirely by Nintendo. I decide if we can create a fighter based on their selection, then come up with the plan.<\/span>\u2014 \u685c\u4e95 \u653f\u535a (@Sora_Sakurai) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sora_Sakurai\/status\/1059958604818657282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s great to dream about your favorite character joining the battle and I appreciate your passion, but please try to stay on topic when replying to tweets and refrain from flooding us, and other users, with requests when we&#8217;re not specifically asking for feedback. Thank you!<\/span>\u2014 \u685c\u4e95 \u653f\u535a (@Sora_Sakurai) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sora_Sakurai\/status\/1059958663316615168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>So, there you have it &#8211; forwarding messages to Nintendo or Sakurai requesting specific fighters for the upcoming Smash game is no longer necessary. In saying this, it probably won&#8217;t put a stop to the rumours about what exact characters will be released in the future.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you think about Sakurai&#8217;s twitter posts? Are you happy to hear Nintendo&#8217;s already picked the DLC fighters? Tell us in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week during the final Super Smash Bros. 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