That's old news. At any rate, I don't think there'll be a problem. I doubt he means the core mechanics are gonna change, he just wants it to really evolve the way 64 evolved into Melee, not like the change from Melee to Brawl, which was basically the same thing as Melee except with more content and tweaked mechanics.
the cartoon is an American show considered non-canon, and no official Nintendo media actually acknowledges the Mario or Zelda cartoons. Even Japanese manga and shows (the Zelda mangas, Kirby: Right Back at Ya) aren't acknowledged as canon (with the exception of the Metroid Manga, on which many of Other M's elements were based).
Hm... I'll need some time to think about that.
I've thought a bit about Pit's moveset, as well. He should definitely be much more agile and melee-oriented due to his Uprising appearance. Also, I think rather than toggling different weapons with massive differences in play type, I think the different weapons should function sort of like Peach's sports clubs did for smash attacks: Cycling at random for different power and speed.
True. It also needs more F-Zero and Metroid characters... each of those only have one character in Smash. I can imagine Samurai Goroh and Ridley making appearances. As for Mother, I don't really know since I haven't played much of the Mother games.
My personal guess is that they would remove both Sonic and Snake so they can add different 3rd party characters. Otherwise, they would eventually get oversaturated across various games.
Eh, I don't think that would be a problem, personally. Assuming Snake is in the next one (which I doubt), "old man Snake" could just be a palette swap for younger Snake.
