Smash Bros. And Leaked Information: A Lesson The Community Learned

Skyler from Informed Pixel says: "Today, Nintendo held the final Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Direct before its official release. Expectations of the Nintendo Direct were very high, with leaks pointing towards multiple character reveals and an abundance of new information. With all that said, most of the leaks were undoubtedly false, and that led to disappointment among the Super Smash Bros. Fandom. So what happened?"

[CluelessB0B]

Ugh leaks kill me. They’re an entirely different industry unto themselves, but they take so much away from the people that work so hard on things.

[PurpHerbison]

"The Tekken team makes up fake information (Fake ID= A, B, C, D, E, F...) to the company staff so that it can identify the leak source."
Seems to have worked so far as nothing real has leaked for them.

[Sono421]

The community did not learn their lesson at all.

Just go on the World of Light trailer. All you see is people calling it the new subspace and talking about how great the story is gonna be despite the fact that Sakurai literally told us it is not like subspace and they chose to focus on gameplay instead of story.

The community literally learned nothing and are still setting their expectations way too high.

[princejb134]

idk i see it differently. I honestly dont care about leaks. I just want to play the game thats where the fun is

[GnarleySquid]

Fake leaks can definitely hurt the marketing/hype. Here's hoping Banjo and Geno get their due as DLC.

[Sgt_Slaughter]

The issue multiple people have with how the final pre-DLC characters were handled, is that the fans are showing more respect to the "leak" characters than Nintendo is. Franchises like Golden Sun and Super Mario RPG are beloved and requested repeatedly, yet we got a Piranha Plant? Why not just make it Petey instead so it's at least a dedicated character (yes it's in the Final Smash but that's not much)?

[The 10th Rider]

Plus the order of announcements was really poor. Make the final characters Isabelle, Ken, Incineroar, and a Pirhanna Plant? They should have ended with Simon, King K Rool, or Ridley.

[PhoenixUp]

People believed in those leaks? Lmao

[PapaBop]

Screw the leaks, my long time SF main made it into the cast, get hype! The talk of Goku being added was pretty cool though however I think that was more of a request than a leak.

[DarXyde]

Haven't had the chance to check it out yet. How does he control? Ken might be cool if they bring in his SFV variant since he's different enough. I get that he's an echo, but they can do some cool stuff with differentiation.

I think we'll eventually see Jeanne as a Bayonetta echo.

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

I'm still laughing at all the salty bois the Piranha Plant reveal has created.XD
I don't like it compared to someone like Issac, but I'll take it for the sheer novelty of it.
You can't get much more left-field than that!
NO ONE saw that coming!
Plus he's free, so that's great for early adopters.

[King_Noctis]

Piranha Plant Is awesome. Also, Instead of articles like detailing the new story mode, the new Spirit feature, and all the new mode coming to Smash, we have an article trying to downplay Smash by saying how “disappointed” us Smash fans are. Typical N4G.