noooooo i like the cuts it made it better for me it was my smash story :(

Nintendo's YouTube phobia drives me crazy. I hate it so much. I was planning on doing a playthrough with commentary of Wind Waker, because I love it so much, for my channel. Since they started that ad thing, I dropped the idea. Now this?? Really? Nintendo is a company that lives about 7 years in the past. I love them, and I want them to do well, but they have to start changing. Both with policies and hardware.

"If they had been on YouTube immediately at launch, I wouldn't have played it either."  So...you're... just a few days short of being the reason he decided to do this?

I respect Sakurai for this.  Now the people who want to play the game can play the game, and the people who want to gratify themselves without putting in any effort can get shafted.

Wait, Mike...you said you liked playing Subspace Emissary for the cutscenes. But, you wouldn't play it if you could see the cutscenes elsewhere. Tell me why Sakurai's decision is one you don't agree with again. Why would he waste his time with a game feature he, as a designer, feels would not be appreciated in their native form? In other words, if people can see the cutscenes on YouTube instead of playing through the mode on the disc, why have the mode waste space on the disc? Sure, it's a bit of a slippery slope argument, but I still like his backup plan. I kinda miss the "A New Challenger Approaches" screen from Melee, and this sounds a lot like it.

Wait, so the guy is cutting out this game mode because a previous entry's cutscenes ended up on youtube?  That's what's happening, right?  It's not that upcoming cutscenes leaked?

I mean, it's his prerogative, but that really just doesn't make sense. Pretty much all cutscenes from every major release from the past decade have made their way to youtube... I agree with Mike, dude is showing a serious disconnect with technology.

Lazy and just lame. Gets even lamer when they use the internet and the fanbase as the lame excuse. Just Lame. It's not like they were producing Square-Enix/Blizzard quality cut-scenes lol.

Fans are paying more and more and getting less and less. And more companies are taking more and more short cuts and getting lazier by the second and Blaming the Fans and Internet for everything like the little B***hes they are. What makes it all even worse; is the gamers eat it up and let them get away with it.

Just saying

People played for the story? The cut-scenes were great and all. Though I won't miss them. The gameplay is the most important part of a SSB game.

Nintendo has always done its own thing and just because they aren't hip to the latest trends doesn't mean they are a failure. I haven't seen Nintendo try to compete with another company since they did so with Sega in the 16-bit era and they just do their own thing.

The entire "console war" is just some marketing farse created by the press that know people will buy into it and the end result is people buying more products hence their revenue (the press) make more money.

There's no "war"... That's just silly. For anyone that's ever been to a real war using that term is a disgrace. Now for Nintendo; even if there was a "war" they would be doing their own thing and even though some people with big mouths don't like it [what Nintendo does] the majority of the people do [hence their sales figures] and continue to [buy up Nintendo products] otherwise they would be making games for other consoles which is exactly a mistake Sega made.

I might have no interest in the Wii-U and maybe a possible interest in the 3DS (thanks to the new Zelda), but the numbers don't lie and they aren't that bad off. Their 3DS is killing the Vita and if you're counting Nintendo is in 3rd place which isn't bad considering the crap they call "casual gaming" was supposed to "take over" the gaming market, but hasn't come close.

People need to understand Nintendo before they start ranting off about them. Its not like they don't listen, but they make decisions based on a set of values and not what the popular trend is because trends end (quite quickly). This entire Sony/Micrsoft bending to public opinion is no more then a PR stunt. When you look at most of the end results they are merely more of a change in advertising tactics and a little change in software design or policy.

That means you're thinking your voice has made some really big difference in what Sony and Microsoft are doing, but it hasn't and Nintendo isn't even interested in playing that game.

Go Nintendo!

What the heck is this. This is the stupidest reason.

That sucks. The cuts from Brawl were awesome. I hope there will be character customization.

I'll admit that I love story content on any game but especially fighting games. I was wishing for something similar to a story mode, but I've been playing Smash Bros. since the Nintendo 64 years so I'm still in for this next version. ^_^

another mistake by Nintendo

If Smash Bros. did do a story mode they should try to do it like Street Fighter or Soul Caliber. A unique story for each character, even though that would take an extremely long time. If anything just a unique ending will do.

seems like a poor excuse to me. I mean if someone wanted to ruin their play-through experience by watching  cutscenes online that's their bad. I would avoid watching the leaked cuts online altogether.

Not everyone eats a candy bar before dinner, Sakurai.

man that kinda sucks but still cant wait till it comes out... BETTER NOT SCREW UP NINTENDO!

Kinda sucks, call me childish but actually enjoyed the cutscences in the previous installments.

Now that's just bull.