User blog comment:Rocketslime 1 1/New SSB Character Contest - Semi-finals/@comment-4237188-20130731152448

Don't everyone kid yourselves. Shadow won't be in this game. Sakurai admits that he hates 3rd party characters, and wants as few as possible. Naturally that means there won't be more than one rep per 3rd party series. At this point we aren't even sure Sonic's in the game (although it's a VERY strong possiblity he is) and Shadow certainly won't be. Now I'm not just hating on Shadow. There won't be Eggman, or Knuckles, or Tails, or Rouge, or Vector, or Amy, or Whoever.