Mewtwo likely to be the last DLC for Super Smash Bros.

Last week Pre-ordered purchases of Super Smash Bros. for Wii U was available for pre-load (check information here). With the same roster of characters on both 3DS and Wii U, many hoped we may see some DLC for either both or even just the Wii U version in the future. Then came the announcement that Mewtwo would be coming to the game for those that purchase both versions. However, sadly it sounds like that may be it, at least according to Masahiro Sakurai.

In an interview with VideoGamer, Sakurai was asked if there were any plans for future character or stage DLC, in which he responded:

“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.”

This is rather disappointing and upsetting news for the players as there are plenty of characters whom the players would have loved to see in the game. Sakurai sounds worried on the pretext of the concern that people will be diappointed and angry about the game not being complete at launch, but if they are all being built post-launch, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Hopefully he decides to act out of these thoughts and provide the gamers with what they anticipate the most.