The games industry's growing trend of selling premium DLC has been described as a widespread "scam" by a key developer of Nintendo games.

Masahiro Sakurai, who has directed all entries in the . Sakurai claims that virtually no DLC was developed prior each game's release.

He wrote: "The DLC we are releasing for Smash is authentic, developed only after we finished working on the main game. Of course, said content will come to you at a premium as compensation for the work put into developing additional content post-production."