>They added him in because of the Smash Ballot
>90% of his votes were jokes
>>316495953
The smash ballot is at the December Direct, numbnuts
The ballot ended about a month ago. If their claims of characters taking months to finish was true, they had to have been working on him since July/August
He didnt make it anywhere close to the top of the ballot
The winner was BK as far as everyone knows right now
>>316496959
They could see the results well before the ballot ended. It's the same reason we got King K Rool, Chrom, Black Knight, Viridi, etc costumes.
I'm worried about Zelda,guys.
he wasn't added due to the smash ballot, probably just for other stupid reasons
>>316496036
>>316496959
>>316497132
>>316499934
>all these people think Cloud isn't a ballot result
Sakurai tweeted "I fulfilled a very difficult request, don't you think?"
>>316500641
oh I guess that proves it then huh
why don't they save this at the next e3? their last e3 was fucking terrible
>>316496036
Who's to say Cloud wasn't one of the ballot characters and they just decided to show him off early?
>>316496959
Do you really think they wouldn't get started on at least one character if they had a sizable lead?
>>316497132
Says who? All these gated online smash communities? 4chan? r/smashbros? Smashboards? Sourcegaming? There are a whole lot of people that don't take part in these things. Just because a character wasn't high in all these fan polls doesn't mean they weren't high in the real thing.
>>316502430
>>316500641
Cloud is too far along in development to have been one of the ballot characters. The ballot was such a huge marketing stunt for Nintendo that there isn't any way they wouldn't mention the ballot specifically in the character reveal. You lazy, lazy shitposter.
>>316497132
>The winner was BK
Literally why
Okay, so if we have a "top 3" or "top 5" list of ballot winners, who do you think is getting in?
>Banjo-Kazooie
>King K. Rool
>Wonder Red
>Inkling
>Bayonetta
Shovel Knight is already coming.
>>316502971
such a huge marketing stunt they forgot to close the page when it ended
>>316503528
Stay delusional
>>316503528
Goku
>>316503102
Bonkey Kong
>>316503779
>stay delusional
Cloud got in. The sky is the limit
He was proably added because the stupid remake is coming out for PS4.
Also Cloud is such a bland character. It's crazy how they don't try to differentiate any of these swordsman attacks. Like Roy I understood because it was another FE character but they ripped a lot of attacks off of FE characters and Shulk.
>>316506764
Not really. He's got a limit break mechanic and a projectile. That alone makes him completely different from the rest