Melee vs. Smash 4 on game quality is a heated argument, I like melee better but it’s wrong to assume that either is widely considered to be better. As for die out in Melee, ever since the Smash Documentary, the competitive scene has entered a new growth phase, and a whole new generation of Melee players has entered…

It doesn’t apply to Melee because the players don’t carry over, the viewers don’t carry over, and the mechanics don’t carry over any more than the mechanics of say, Street Fighter carry over to Marvel, from Melee to Smash 4. Melee already survived one sequel, which it overtook, and now it is widely agreed that Smash 4…

The two games are different enough to have almost no top level crossover, different viewerships, vastly different rule sets, and so on. The fact that either game alone outdoes most of the other games in the 8 guaranteed spots in the numbers they bring shows how ridiculous it would be to take either out. If you think…