I am still surprised that these three characters never made it into Smash Ultimate.

Master Chief.

Ray-Man.

Crash Bandicoot.

Before each and every DLC character was revealed as it went along, I would have bet good money that those three characters would have made it into the game. Crash and Ray-Man especially would have been such perfect additions and they are definitely iconic enough to be included.

However, with Nintendo being incredibly chummy with Microsoft in the past few years with characters like Banjo-Kazooie and Minecraft Steve making it into the game and it looking more and more likely that the Halo series will jump ship from the Xbox for the very first time and land on the Switch 2 in the form of the Master Chief collection to be announced at the April 2nd Switch 2 direct as a launch title, does this make it even more likely that Master Chief himself will make it into whatever the next iteration of Smash will be whether it's a Switch 2 upgrade patch that gives us one or two newcomers or just a brand new game entirely? I would bet serious money that he will make it in.