Characters

No characters have been confirmed yet, although Masahiro Sakurai (director of Super Smash Bros 4) has shown interest in bringing back characters from retro titles. [2] Katsuhiro Harada (Tekken producer) and Makoto Yoshizumi (Tales producer) aren't pushing Sakurai to featuring their respective characters, although Yoshito Higuchi would love for a character or two from Tales of series to be featured. Hirada said that if fans want Tekken characters, they'll add them. [3] [4] Even though he mentioned it isn't "entirely out of the realm of possibilty" that Capcom characters may appear, Masahiro Sakurai also said that introducing too many third-party characters would have a bad effect, and he recognizes the need to narrow it down. [1] [5]

Sources:

[1] http://wii.ign.com/articles/117/1174797p1.html
[2] http://www.cubed3.com/news/16920
[3] http://www.nowgamer.com/news/1476943/smash_bros_wii_u_big_priority_for_namco_tekken_team_to_be_involved_harada.html
[4] http://nintendoeverything.com/93862/yoshizumi-on-including-tales-characters-in-next-smash-bros-more/ (French Original: http://kingdom-of-tales.net/news-568.html)
[5] http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/08/07/masahiro-sakurai-talks-super-smash-bros-4?

Last Updated: 8/24/2012 6:57 PM CT