Can he confirm/de-confirming Snake? I'm getting tired of people mentioning him and not talking about the character we truly need
The only reason I keep saying Snake is that despite Konami being Konami, a lot of the work for Snake is already done thanks to Brawl's assets and music for Snake.
-He has a stage already
-They can re-used Brawl tracks and bring in a few new ones (Ground Zeros, Phantom Pain, Peace Waker, MGS3, ect)
-Very little has to be done in editing his moveset for Smash 4; just some slight changes here and there
-Can push sales of MGSV and maybe even lead to a early 2016 release of Ground Zeroes and Phantom Pain on Wii U and (latter on) NX; Konami and Nintendo are more friendly then it seems (they let them work with a Hudson Soft IP recently, some of their GBA Castlevanna's are on the Wii U VC, ect).
Paper Mario the most likely Nintendo newcomer next to Inklings honestly.
-Has a game coming up (Paper Jam)
-Has trophies in the 3DS and a stage in the 3DS version that could easily be ported over to the Wii U version (ala Duck Hunt getting ported to 3DS)
-His moveset can be very different from Mario
-Can use the same tech they used for Mr. Game & Watch for his animations and look
I see him being a newcomer in a NX release of Smash Bros. 4 or Smash 5.