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I’m not a lawyer and have no knowledge of laws, so this whole post may make me look stupid. But with the surge of “What’s next for Smash” videos I saw many people say they will just rerelease Smash Ultimate. However, I think people fail to consider that if they rerelease a whole new game they would have to renew the copyrights for every single character. And that just isn’t possible. Sakurai has already said multiple times what Ultimate did was simply impossible to replicate. Let alone how hard it was to do it once, doing it again would be a pipe dream. I think this would also count under a switch 2 port as well as they are selling the game again under a new name essentially. The only way for something close to that would be just a version upgrade. Add on the fact that in the past they almost had a melee port on GameCube instead of Brawl but Sakurai denied such a thing because he wanted to make something new, it’s logical to guess they will make a completely new smash bros. But I’m biased and want a completely new smash bros.