De nieuwe Super Smash Bros. voor 3DS en Wii U zal geen cut scenes en een story-modus bevatten, aldus Masahiro Sakurai. De reden hiervoor zijn de video's die al op het internet gepubliceerd zijn.
Masahiro Sakurai schreef:"Unfortunately, the movie scenes we worked hard to create were uploaded onto the internet. You can only truly wow a player the first time he sees a cutscene. I felt if players saw the cut scenes outside of the game, they would no longer serve as rewards for playing the game, so I've decided against having them."
Verder had Sakurai het ook over Tekken-personages. Hij plant deze niet toe te voegen aan het spel.
Masahiro Sakurai schreef:"Just because the game is being cooperatively developed with Namco Bandai involved, that doesn’t at all mean that they’d be given any special consideration for having characters in the game," Sakurai said. "Smash Bros. can still be considered as an all-star collection of Nintendo characters. Just like with Mega Man or any other third-party character, it would have to be a very special situation."
