Board Thread:Sonic News and Updates/@comment-2054358-20131003010118/@comment-25004805-20140626022741

Magiciandude wrote:

Psyche the Hedgehog 1997 wrote: This must mean that Tails AND Knuckles are appearing. Highly doubtful. Sakurai said that there will be a hard limit on 3rd party characters as to not take away the focus of it being a Nintendo game. He even said Namco is not getting any special treatment just because they're helping out with the development and called Mega Man a special case. I'm happy enough as it is to just have Sonic back. As for the whole veteran thing, I don't think we need it since it's a Nintendo game. Otherwise, a list of characters from Smash Bros. would make a lot more sense. The Namco thing turns out to be a lie later.