>>14549017
He's already in smash, all of them, really.
Anyway, you may be right, but only for a corporate reason. Namely that nintendo is too up their own ass about "advertising" that Ridley won't be playable and instead, we get a bunch of shit from recent or yet-to-be-released games.
You know, like Corrin or Inklings or Decideueye or Wii Fit Trainer or motherfucking Cloud and Greninja, while cool characters are shoved into mii costumes.
The catch here is that Samus Returns is a recent game that was well received and the final battle fucking looks like a smash bros stage in the making.