Probably one of the bigger surprises of the latest Nintendo Direct was that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will be getting even more DLC Fighters beyond the Fighters Pass. Since Sakurai keeps lamenting how DLC fighters aren't actually that profitable, how they are on a low budget and how he would like to move on with his projects eventually, this certainly wasn't something to expect.
It will be nice to have nonetheless and very interesting to see what these new characters will be. It will be also a chance to do something for Nintendo here... After the original announcement that Nintendo was choosing the DLC there was the hope that it will be very 1st party focused, but it turned out to be the entire opposite. And as spectacular as some of these 3rd party additions might be, it would still be nice to get something from Nintendo's more recent games, especially some more representation of Nintendo Switch games, like Xenoblade Chronicles 2, ARMS or Fire Emblem: Three Houses.
Of course they didn't really specify things here. We could be talking about standalone fighters, which don't come bundled with new stages, though Sakurai stressed the idea of adding new worlds when he talked about the upcoming DLC in the newest Super Smash Bros. Ultimate presentation. But technically they could be talking about anything, even Echo Fighters.
The latter is even the best chance that we have at getting a Zelda newcomer. I wouldn't expect any of the major DLC packs to go to Zelda, especially since we already got Breath of the Wild Link, Young Link back, all Zelda stages back and the new Great Plateau Tower stage... But adding Impa from Skyward Sword as an Echo for Sheik certainly wouldn't hurt.
It still would be nice to get some more stages next to new fighters, maybe even a separate Stages Pass with stages from games like Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Metroid: Samus Returns, Yoshi's Crafted World or The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, as well as some of the missing older stages. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is severely lacking when it comes to stages from Nintendo games of the last five years and the DLC could be a way to fix this...
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