What Will the SMASH ULTIMATE DELUXE Roster Look Like? 

For street fighter they would definitely add chun li

I think Rayman has a high chance of being in the next game. Nintendo currently has a very good relationship with Ubisoft as they are making games together (Mario and Rabbids).

Depending on the negotiations made for the 3rd party characters, they may not have to make new contracts. In racing games when they negotiate for cars with real life likeness, they buy rights for a number of years. If Sakurai got enough years, the work could already be done. Or, some contracts are done for a singular title. A remaster/re-release style may not need new contracts. For example, the NFS Hot Pursuit remaster by Criterion had all the old copyrighted music because it was the same title. Basically, its not as unlikely as people think.

I’m still extremely surprised that they didn’t add monster hunter as a dlc with Rathalos being a boss/assist trophy and having it be perfect promotion for when rise came out as a switch exclusive. Looking back at the every new character added in ultimate, I never really had a fighter who I truely had a connection with, so yeah that’s all I really want

I think if we know Nintendo enough, we’ll likely get Alear from Fire Emblem Engage

I think the idea to built on top of Ultimate is not as easy as porting Mario Kart. You have completely forgotten about the fact that you need to renegotiate with every third party developer, and there are 11 companies that you must negotiate with. If it was Brawl which had only 2 third party companies involved I could see it happening, Smash 4 more than doubled that number (it has 5 companies) but outside of Square Enix I don't see much trouble, but Ultimate is a different beast, it's extremely difficult to repeat it because if only one company refuses, it's over, and three companies (Square Enix, Atlus and Disney) are extremely over protective with their IPs, problematic.

Never let bro cook again

I’d say that there would be 16 new fighters and 8 new stages in the base game, following by a DLC Booster Fighter Pass.

this was a highly enjoyable watch, I think you're predictions are highly based. haha. I bet you get a good amount right too. would love to see the route 1 potential video...although if you're sane you want route 2! I think they should always take route 2, each time make it the new most epic videogame ever, and let the story mode be what gives each entry it's unique identity. they could even add less than 5 new characters to the base game each time, so long as we get dlc and a new bell and whistle here or there, along with that new story mode. new sub 🎉

We're at the point where we're making predictions for a possible port of smash ultimate And the worst part is that we're watching it lol

I think Donkey Kong Jr. would be a neat retro choice (he could represent the classic Donkey Kong Arcade games, DKJr Math, and maybe DK94

Unless they change or add new game mechanics I don't see why a whole new game is needed. They just need to keep adding more characters.

I would definitely love another Monster Hunter addition like an actual fighter and not a boss and map like you have the hunter who already has an expanded set of moves to use

As long as Joker comes back I'll be happy, but I also would complain about the Persona 3 and 4 protagonist getting added.

Ngl I think urbosa is likely We will most likely get another zelda rep and she fits well Also shantae is my pick for the most likely

More than likely a few new first/second party characters. Doubtful there would be new guests unless they were DLC.

I don’t know much about licensing and or the character approval process for those that are owned by 3rd party companies. However, I would imagine having that same game like Ultimate and just expanding the roster (maybe Sakurai even making a few more 3rd pary deals), is the cheaper and better way to go here. We have to remember that for a long while a balance needs to be kept between Sakurai & and the demand of the fan base. A new game all together just simply isn’t in the cards right now

Tears of the kingdom link Ganon and Zelda would be crazy

Your dlc roster is nearly perfect. But I would change one thing. I don't see Scorpion or any MK character getting in, I'd remove him and put Master Chief in his spot. He's not big in Japan, and can't end it with him, but is an icon that I think needs to be in Smash. As for the final slot, because of the resent remake. The highly requested character Geno should be that final fighter.

Ultimate is kind of already a deluxed version of wii u

I'm sorry dude, but no way Dixie Kong & Slippy Toad would be DLC. These characters don't sell DLC. You forget that every Nintendo character in the DLC was promotional in some way.

Oh cool, nice to know the moment I've finally gotten a Nintendo Switch OLED, and am really getting interested in Smash Ultimate it might be replaced. Fun. Edit: I just hope that if they do make a Smash Ultimate Deluxe and put it on a new console that Smash Ultimate maintains a playerbase and/or competitive scene for people who don't want to buy a Switch Pro

For me personally, I would like to add more retro characters like Billy and Jimmy Lee from the Double Dragon series, Bill and Lance from the Contra series. Maybe also add Lara Croft from the Tomb Raider series as well. It would be nice to have at least one character from Killer Instinct.

I want to see raiden from metal gear get in the next game, the only metal gear rep is snake and if another rep was to appear everyone would freak, and nobody is a better choice than raiden

I believe Mortal Kombat is banned in Japan so that’s likely why it hasn’t even been considered

My personal base roster going off of your criteria would be Bandana Dee, Kamek, Excitebiker, Meowscarada (even tho it would be great to have N) and Rayman, a character more closely associated with Nintendo and its style of games. Crash is such a massive pick, I'd save him for DLC.

I wish you had expanded on what Pokémon N would use, and how it would play.

I love your editing style!

I also really would love to see Impa, based on her Age of Calamity move set. She is a popular character in that game, and Zelda is LONG overdue for a newcomer and Impa is the only solid option.

Honestly I don’t even think we need another game. Just keep updating Ultimate, add new characters, and port the game for the inevitable new generation console.

It's gonna be 15 fire emblem characters

Come on with the Nintendo characters man we already have enough fire emblem and Nintendo characters and Pokemon too

I predict Geno, Rayman, Skull Kid, Armarouge with Ceruledge echo, Tails and Shadow (who is a Sonic echo), Isaac from Golden Sun and Akira from Astral Chain.

I think they would also add cuphead since the creators wanted him in smash, but they had to wait for the creator to improve him as a fighter (I can’t believe that they gave him the mii treatment 😭)

With the success of elden ring and the fact bandai namco was involved (also it has a Japanese developmrnt team) so I reckon tarnished has a pretty good chance

Hot take... there won't be a story mode, but there will be an expansion for World of Light with new spirits and bosses (like the return of Porky, Rayquaza, and Duon... and maybe a secret Tabuu fight? 👀). But there will be a Target Smash :0 just use one background and a set of assets that could be used for all Target stages. I could imagine DLC taking slightly longer because of it, but totally possible. Same time to develop a story mode for them.

I don't agree with the idea that the next game would be a "Deluxe". The reason they did a lot of these was because of the commercial failure of the Wii U. They ported these games as "Deluxe" to the Switch so that those games could reach a wider audience with the success of the Switch. If they were going to do that for any game, it would have been Smash 4 being the Deluxe as it ports to the Switch. The Switch already has a lot of sales, and a lot of people owning Smash Ultimate, so there's no need. They typically build off of the previous Smash game when developing the next game anyways. Brawl was built of of Melee, Smash 4 was built off of Brawl, and Ultimate was built off of Smash 4.

thus is the most goated list i’ve ever seen

Ngl.. a lot of these choices feel..too safe. I do find it hilarious that out of all the times that Sakurai has said he was done, we didn’t believe him. Now that he kinda soft confirmed a game we suddenly believe him now? Weird. So if we’re going to believe Sakurai..wouldn’t make sense to have a smaller roster? He even said a number of times getting the rights to some of those characters would be hard and we SHOULD expect a smaller roster. Interesting choices for DLC but that base roster spot..needs help

This is what I would predict for a smash 6 : 10 new characters being Terrarian, Raymman, Waddle dee, Tails, Zoroark, King boo, Magolor, Cranky Kong, Dixie kong, and Crazy dave Wave 1 would be :Geno, Slippy, Spyro, Roblox Noob, and Undyne Wave 2 would be :Waluigi, Phoenix right, Chorus kids, Shadow, and Crash

It's pretty clear that this roster is literally just western pandering being pased as predictions. Most of the characters you listed are only really requested in the West instead of Japan, the country where Nintendo comes from. Where is the obvious Tales rep? Where is the imminent second Splatoon rep? Why MK a franchise that is LITERALLY NOT SOLD in Japan instead of you know, Soulcalibur or Guilty Gear? Why Shantae as the indie pick instead of Quote who literally started the indie boom or Reimu who has an entire convention dedicated to her franchise out of sheer popularity? Why two Activision reps when Nintendo would most likely not want to have anything to do with them due to all the drama? And why Master Chief a character who has never had a game on Nintendo and is also unheard of in Japan in such an important place as the final slot? Before you bring in the "but Microsoft and Nintendo are such buddy buddies!!" argument, let me remind you that they got Banjo and Steve from them as actual fighters (and all the Bethesda mii costumes since they were bought) and among them Chief was nowhere to be seen. If there's another rule besides being from a videogame, then having at least one actual appearance on Nintendo systems before being considered should be it (and no, Fortnite skins don't count). That said, I'm not a fan of the idea of porting the same game to the new console and have people pay $60 again for it + some new content. This is not a MK8 situation in which the console it was originally sold on was a failure and as such not a lot of people got to experience it, so they just ported it to save themselves the need of making another game and years later they feel the need to make DLC for it due to how good it was still selling. SSBU on the other hand sold over 30 million copies, and of those 30 million costumers I don't think a lot would be willing to pay again for the same game. I just want the series to go on a new direction for once, they already released their "ultimate" game so do what other FG franchises have done and reboot it all.

8:58 That aged horribly Also, given that Gen 9 would likely be at least in its late stage by 2025, I think a rep from it is possible.

“Another nintendo character I’m suprised we haven’t got yet” Oh it’s toad! “Dixie!”

I would actually love to see a much more trimmed down Smash, assuming we do get a future entry. 20-30 fighters, no third-party fighters, no echoes, a balance of fighters from each series, meaning not having half the roster be Fire Emblem. But, I think we do need to entertain the idea that we may never get another Smash game, and that would be fine. Ultimate is a great one to end on.

I feel like they could probably make a new game with Ultimate's roster (and some newcomers of course)

15:19 If you ask any Star Fox fan, they're more likely to say "get this guy off me".

Dante and Doom Guy are weeping

For a new character, just look at the first 12 characters, they all have more than one characters representing their franchise now. Except ONE chatacter, and thats Captain Falcon. So I would add Black Shadow to the roster.

I'll prefer the ultimate deluxe because I didn't have any money to get the dlc content. This is a win for me.

Waluigi, Shadow, and Dr Eggman please

I honestly dont think that Enix would allow for 4 of their characters to be on the free base roster without having atleast 2 of their characters in the each DLC pack

I can see Noah from Xenoblade join as well as Ryu Hayabusa.

Oh god the DLC picks are attrocious 💀 Here are my ideas (assuming they can change the Mii Costumes and Assist Trophies) Newcomers: -Bandana Waddle Dee (popular) -Isaac (retro) -Dr. Eggman (new villain) -Chun-Li (#1 gaming woman) -Dixie Kong (half echo/easy to make) -Impa (Legend of Zelda rep) Echo Fighters: -Shadow -Alph Bonus DLC: -Geno (final "popular" character to kick off DLC) DLC: -Meowscarada/Gengar (obligatory mid pick) -Monster Hunter (Japan) -Doom Guy (Western) -Lloyd Irving (new Namco rep) -Crash Bandicoot (overall popularity) - Two Bonus challengers to round the roster to 100 character (you fill in the blanks :) I personally would love Bomberman and Shovel Knight) Other top runners: -Chorus Kids (unused files in WiiU/3DS) -Bomberman (although while I'd love to play as him, his current role fits him) -Takamaru (retro, but I think Isaac fits better as a fighter) -Shovel Knight (would've been an awesome indie rep, but I doubt he'll get in over getting a deluxe mii costume) -Rayman (I don't think his moveset could have the same flare as the other picks) -Pheonix Wright (I get the appeal... but bro has zero moveset potential, and Capcom vs Marvel doesn't count 💀) -Porky Minch (I would love him in Smash as another villain, but not as iconic as Dr. Eggman, and he could still fit in as a new boss) -Travis and Dante (don't know a lot about those guys but I hear about em often) -Arle Nadja or Reimu (same as the above, but Japanese edition) -Waluigi (popular... but not the biggest fan personally) -Skull Kid (popular and checks the villain mark, but I think Impa made a bigger mark for the series as a whole) -2B (dunno anything about em but they seem chill) -Master Chief (don't see the appeal, I think Doom Guy fits better) -Zero (another great pick, decent moveset potential, and further represents MegaMan)

2B for Smash Bros Ultimate Deluxe!

The Deluxe Wii U ports made sense on the Switch. Most gamers didn't have a Wii U and you couldn't fit a disc drive on the Switch so backwards compatibility wasn't an option. Why would they make Deluxe ports of Switch games on the successor? If it has backwards compatibility having a port would be redundant, and having a small card as the Switch's physical game size would be easy to put on the next device. Even if it doesn't have backwards compatibility (which wouldn't make much sense), the Switch is currently the 3rd best selling platform of all time and many people already played Smash Ultimate. With a system seller like the Smash Bros. franchise wouldn't they want to make a new game to entice a larger audience? Making a port would be a turn off for many people that already played it on the Switch even with a few new bells and whistles.

Personally my list would have said: Base Game: Bandana Dee, Waluigi, Bomberman, Zygarde, Crash Bandicoot DLC 1: Shantae, Scorpion/SubZero, Ratchet & Clank, Agumon, Master Chief DLC 2: Chun-Li, Kratos, Spyro, 2B, Doom Man And then update Ganondorf, Sonic and Inkling

If we're lucky we'll get a few echo fighters or something 💀

7:20 I wouldn't say dark pit is a villain considering He isn't a villain

I would like to see Jin Kazama in Smash with new music and spirits. If Sephiroth can get in with Cloud, so can Jin.

I will say that, I think it feels a bit off to have the "future Pokemon Game Slot", but not one for Fire Emblem, I feel.

Whatever direction they go, if they dont improve the 1v1 netcode, they can keep that mf'er.

It was confirmed that the next console will have access to your switch library of games, so a deluxe would not make sense in any shape or form. the only reason all of these wii u deluxe versions exist is because of how disastrous the wii u was as a console for Nintendo. Why try to sell everyone a game they all have access to when you can just sell more dlc for said game, it's that simple. and if they do make a brand new smash for next gen then I feel the roster size would simply shrink back down to the size of smash 4's roster excluding new characters. That would be about 58+? 66 with new characters. This seems like a lot remaining, but it really isn't considering all the stages, music, and more that will most likely be cut out of the game. I feel the best thing for smash would be to shrink down each series to its core characters, so like the mario bros series would include: the bros - mario and luigi. who go to stop bowser to save princess peach. there, that is the mario series. of course yoshi and wario would stay too as they are classed as being apart of their own series. If you did this with every series you would have 45 character (not counting third party). plenty of wiggle room to throw back in characters like daisy, rosalina, and some others while having a lot of room to add new characters.

What’s crazy is that smash can still makes money to this day with just cosmetics alone! Look and Xenoverse 2, MK8 and Shinobi Strikers, those games are alive after around 6 plus years of support. Smash is undoubtedly one of the best fighting game around, but I also get why they won’t.

Look the reason why I think a new game is more likely in order for a deluxe game to make sense the next console can not be backwards compatible but people want backwards compatibility but If the next switch was backwards compatible then ultimate deluxe would be fighting against ultimate The different the deluxe games on the switch were in the wii u witch…you can’t play on the switch so unless you want Nintendo to make it so you can’t play any switch games on the switch 2 then…..I feel smash 6 is more likely then ultimate deluxe

Takamuru Ryu hayabusa Bill from Contra Conker The Ashen One from Dark Souls

Your roaster pick is pretty mid

I’d 1000% buy the game just for N. I think it would be cool if he himself fought and used his many Pokémon as moves, reflecting his nature as an unorthodox Pokémon trainer

I think that characters that should be added are rayman, cuphead, and maybe doom guy

MK is a good thought but I think due to violence of it they’d skip out on it and do a game like guilty gear to pull third party fighting characters form

I think Geno should definitely be in the next game but Crash Bandicoot is an absolute must!!

I want some dark stalkers in the game

They focused on a lot of RPG characters in ultimate, so I hope they focus on some more iconic characters this time around. Sans made it in as a costume so it would be a crime if not a single undertale character actually made it in. Theres so many options. I just hope every other character isn’t an “anime swordsman” as the community likes to call it

What about the Rabbids? I think they’d be absolutely hilarious to add to the game

I hope Geno and mallow will be in deluxe 1 Geno and mallow 2 tails and eggman 3 Bandana dee

I hope I see Crash and Masterchief on this list. Edit: W list

Yes i will a ultimate Deluxe Version i will all Characters with More More More Characters

I'm surprised that people sleep on 2B. She is popular choice in both east and west. Nier Automada is on Switch. Her design can be tweaked like Pyra and Mythra.

Tbh if you really want to push a Gen 5 Pokemon rep, just do Zoroark.

There’s only one thing I request and that’s a Mandela effect Pikachu skin… and Giovanni…

Nintendo is doing a awesome job and hopefully Sora Cloud Sephiroth and Joker come back.

I believe Crash is more dlc than Spyro. Besides we obviosly we'll get characters from Fire Emblem, Animal Crossing and Xenoblade at this point. Monolith Soft is the best Nintento studio right now.

Nemesis from Resident Evil.

A lot of people would hate me on this but if they added Dixie I wanted her to be parted up with Kiddy like ice climbers. The move set is like already there. More so if it was just her by herself. Like sje could toss him around do the thing where shes rolls around on him like a ball. Them you have all the characters from DKC

add more skins add a story mode add more final smashes like 3 u can unlock them

dlc pack number 2 WAS A HARD MISS NEVER RATE AGAIN 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I would personally replace Slippy with Jonsey from fortnite just because of how iconic fortnite is in gaming as a whole

There are a few things that I think are more likely. Base roster: I think we're due for a new zelda character, so I would bring in Impa (or really any zelda character) so I would replace eggman. I think dixie would be base roster instead of crash. I think that a new pokemon from gen 10 would be the pokemon rep. DLC: I would have crash be at the end of the pass instead of dixie. I would say that a fire emblem character would probably get in before waluigi, so the new fire emblem protag would get in instead. DLC 2: For the SF rep, it would most certainly be chun li. I think Krystal would be the Star fox rep. I'd put waluigi in Paper Mario's spot. But, that's all just my opinion. A GAME OPINION. thanks for reading

I don’t think Slippy gets in over Krystal or one of Wolf’s companions. I could see Leon Powalski being a cool addition or even Panther Caroso.

I'd replace shantae with shovel knight, I feel like he is just a much more iconic rep for indie games.

5 characters I think might have a chance, if there was possibly a third wave, Spike from Wrecking Crew. Doom Slayer/Guy. Tails Miles Prower from the Sonic series. King Boo, from Luigi's Mansion series. and Shadow, from Sonic series. if this is taking a step too far, then maybe there will be instead of 8 fighters at once, there would be 12 on screen, and pulling ideas from a hat, a new battle royale online, or offline, a game mode that has 20-40 fighters in the game at once, with ridiculous sized 2-5 maps to choose from.

My ideal Smash Ultimate Deluxe additions would be Geno, Waluigi, Shantae, Shovel Knight, Phosphora, Riku and Toon Zelda/Tetra.

Non Video Game Characters Should Be James Bond and Arkham/Lego Batman

Shrek and Goku since they absolutely won the ballot

Full roster: 11 new characters (so it adds up to a perfect 100). Base game: 5 characters Waluigi Dixey kong (echo fighter) Bandan waddle dee Shadow (semi echo fighter) Crash DLC Pack (6 final characters): (New Nintendo franchise) Scorpion (New gen Pokemon rep) Kratos Chun Li or Akuma Master Chief. Perfect 100 character roster. Adding at least 2 echo fighters was necessary. As for some other requests,: Eggman becomes a boss like marx and Dracula. Tails would replace Shadow's assist trophy. Slippy and Peppy would become skins for fox and falco like intended. Spyro would become a spirit and nothing else. Screw baloon fighter. Shante's already represented as a spirit and a mii fighter. As for paper mario.............RIP . Idk maybe an assist trophy.

Mr. Sakura said Waluigi Will not be in smash

If deluxe is a port, Waluigi can't be an option because he's an assist trophy.

My characters 1. Dr wily or eggman. 2.Giovani, Pokémon (brawl fan made a great video on this) 3. Takamaru, for the retro pick, but exitcite bike would be cool as well 4. Crash bandicoot/ ray man/ spiral I would prefer crash 5.M. Bison 6.Marx (banadana Dee is fine, but if not Marx, my definite vote would go to dark matter. 7.Waluigi/ Geno (I would prefer Geno, because it increases the likelihood of Smithy being in smash, but I love waluigi as well)

We wont get a Port version of Ultimate because how the Ultimate is a awesome job on the game and it sold like hotcakes so i dont see a port version of Smash Bros Ultimate to happen regardless.

They should add spinel

If smash 6 will add fortnite Jonesy, ninjala Van or mortal kombat scorpion I'll be fine