Yesterday, the
news broke that a leak seemingly revealed the entire roster for Nintendo's highly anticipated Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. This leak showed that a bunch of characters that have not yet been announced were showing up on the
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate official artwork; the one that features every character that has ever been in a
Super Smash Bros. title ever.
While trying to figure out whether the leak was real or fake, people took it upon themselves to try to find the original source and they eventually found out that the person who uploaded the leak to their Snapchat account worked for a French company called Marina PLV. This company makes cutouts, and banners for other companies and it was likely that they would've been working for Nintendo on the
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate artwork.
Today, we have some new information regarding this topic as Marina PLV has released a statement about this whole issue and it reads as follows:
Rumors say we are linked to a confidentiality leak on the latest Super Smash Bros game. All these rumors point toward one thing: some journalists need to stop purely relying on Google. The person seemingly at the source of these “rumors”, assuming it is indeed them, have left our company since November 2016. This person did not update their Linkedin profile, as such, some people incorrectly affirmed that Les Atelier Marina is linked to this.
We did work with Namco in the past and would like to work with them again, but we currently do not work together for the launch of Super Smash Bros Ultimate. These rumors stain our largely acknowledged professionalism, most notably when it comes to respecting confidentiality. We have contacted every news site along with Namco and Nintendo to stop this misinformation from spreading and evaluate which judicial means we shall put in motion.
The team of Les Atelier Marina
Whether the company has been specifically asked by Nintendo to remain silent given that it could legitimise the leak, or this was really the work of a person who no longer works for Marina PLV is yet to be determined. Nintendo has always been very careful about these kinds of leaks, and it is very surprising that they actually managed to keep the roster a secret before they revealed it on the first
Super Smash Bros. Direct, but it is still possible that the leak does indeed end up becoming a reality since the characters revealed don't sound too far-fetched not to be included. We'll just have to wait for Nintendo to reveal more information about the game.
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will be available for the Nintendo Switch on the 7th of December.
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