VGMP3

No new characters. No new songs. No new assist trophies. No new NOTHING. It’s enough to make a fanboy emo.

IGN: We have to ask because there are so many rumors about this. Are there any hidden characters to come? Can you unlock more hidden fighters by way of WiiConnect24 or will you offer new downloadable content — new fighters, for example. — using the service?

Masahiro Sakurai: No. There are no characters that can be unlocked via connecting to WiiConnect24 or interacting in that fashion. And I may be mistaken here, but the Wii doesn’t have a hard drive — it’s a disc-based system — so I don’t think we’ll be doing that, I don’t think it’s going to happen.

Read the rest of the interview here on IGN’s painfully slow wonderful site, including this little tidbit:

IGN: Have you received interest from other third parties who would very much like to have their characters included in Smash Bros. Brawl?

Masahiro Sakurai: Nope. No other ones.

Megaman creator Keiji Inafune was waiting for you to call him! Oh, you silly game developers! I see where you were confused.

Now get to work on that Megaman character pack for Brawl already, Sakurai.