It's fun making new skills for new characters.

Providing accurate portrayals of characters is something I want to pay ample attention to. If I don’t stick to that thought, then we’d have to lower the quality or break the balance of the game. Something that goes way off spec could break the entire game.

If tournament popularity was the most important consideration, then I think we would create a Smash Bros game that included a multitude of fast moves with complicated controls. However, I believe this is actually the greatest shortcoming of fighting games at present, and that is the reason why I don’t do it.

Even if it's a sequel, lots of people have to give their all to make a game, but some people think the sequel process happens naturally.

In terms of scope, and in terms of sheer number of characters, we went beyond our limits long ago.

What I can say now about paid DLC is that we aren't working on anything at the moment. We've put all our efforts into making the actual game. Creating DLC would involve large additional costs and require the involvement of a lot of people.

I'm not depressed and I continue to remain healthy and positive, but developing 'Smash Bros.' is beyond hard.