User blog comment:Strife237/Sonic may not be appearing in SSB4!/@comment-3571790-20131010175131/@comment-3571790-20131010181943

I never saw any hope in Tails and/or Shadow appearing, quite honestly. In fact, it somewhat irritated me to see everyone asking for so many Sonic characters to appear in the SSB4. Having so many Sonic characters and third-party characters in general take away what the game really is: a Nintendo crossover. I think Sonic is good enough.

As a matter of fact, I may say too many third-party characters for Smash Bros. is a bad thing, but there is only one character that I think should make an appearace: Pac-Man. Not only is he as iconic as Mario himself, but right now SSB4 has 3 mascots of 3 major video game companies: Mario (Nintendo), Sonic (SEGA), and Mega Man (Capcom). If Pac-Man doesn't get accepted into the roster, then I say it's a missed opportunity (PS. Mario vs. Sonic vs. Mega Man vs. Pac-Man? Who wouldn't want that?)