Polioliolio
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Still not a huge fan of Command Fox with oversized animu head
Me either. First time I saw that I felt like puking. The head was going that way since Assault.
It's been explained many times in the thread that reduced probably doesn't mean less characters. Many, many times.
It's an ambiguous statement that could mean anything from tweaking the characters differently in each version to limiting the size of the overall roster in some fashion. We have no specifics.
Guys, in his very next statement he's talking about the number of characters.
Sakurai via kotaku said:"So we're forced into the situation where we may need to reduce some characters to a certain degree. but we're really working hard in order to include as many characters as possible."
Of course that's what he's talking about, or he's at least strongly suggesting it.
Now I suppose you could look at this in a way that says "we're sorry we can't make deep and interesting characters because of the 3DS, so here's many more simple characters that won't challenge the 3DS", but simply put, it looks quite like he's referring to the amount of characters with that second statement.