If there is one thing that is true about Smash fans: if something isn't shown, it's not in the game. The trend among fans is to expect the worse. Like any game, there is content behind the scene you don't know about, and it wont be shown until release. But that doesn't matter to fans. If it's not shown, it's just not there.
But between Brawl and the Super Smash Brothers for Wii U and 3DS (SSBU) there has been a stark contrast in how information flows. With the Super Smash Brothers DOJO (DOJO), the official site for Super Smash Brothers Brawl, content was given out every weekday. Essentially, any day, there could be the reveal of a stage or a character. With SSBU, content is given via the "Pic of the Day." These are pictures which may or may not show anything of significance. With Brawl, the idea was to slowly reveal content about the game. With a few exception, fans had a general idea of what the game would have. With SSBU, information is giving sparingly and its hard to say what we do and do not know. With Brawl, the DOJO was the final word for everything and there is very little that wasn't on the DOJO. The DOJO was meant to be a resource for information even after the game released. When it came to large events, Brawl didn't much of a presence since the information was constantly coming from the DOJO. SSBU is more about keeping things close to it's chest. Information is rarely given out. Information on veteran characters has been reserved for specific events or game releases and new characters only appear in directs. Most of the information comes out of specific showings (such as the Smash Brothers Direct).
With the DOJO, information was given at a constant rate. But the Pic of the Day does not. Let's compare the amount of information with both games. The 3DS version is expected to come out in August (the last summer month). By this time, we knew most of the characters in Brawl except Olimar and Sheik. We knew most of the stages and items as well. For SSBU, we only know 6 characters and 4 starting veterans are MIA (Wario, Ice Climbers, Meta-Knight and Lucas). "But could there be anymore characters? Is that all there is?" While it's possible we know almost all of the new characters, consider there is a lot of known content we haven't seen. For both the 3DS and Wii U version, we have not seen a Donkey Kong, Yoshi, Kirby or Star Fox stage. We, naturally haven't seen a stage for series without a character (Mother, F-Zero, Ice Climbers and Wario). The 3DS version, which comes out this Summer, does not have a Metroid, Wii Fit, Pikmin, Sonic or Megaman stage on top of the ones mentioned previously. This is a lot of content we just haven't seen. Moreover, we have heard music in the direct for Kirby, Yoshi, Starfox and Donkey Kong. Yet no stage. It seems interesting that they haven't shown these off. Furthermore, there hasn't been much talk about modes for the Wii U version. Meanwhile, the 3DS version has Smash Run. Given this, it's very possible there is a lot of content we don't know.
As I mentioned before, fans assume the worse. If it's not explicitly revealed, it's not in the game at all. With how the Pic of the Day works, fans will just assume there isn't much in the game. They'll think that that veterans were cut and the new characters are very few. But the Pic of the Day is just different. For whatever reason, Nintendo and Sakurai don't want to create small continuous stream of content. They want to show a lot of content in small burst. E3 2014 may have a lot of information that has simply been held off. So we'll just have to wait and see.
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