Sakurai Elaborates on Smash Bros. Revolution
    
    
        
50 people? Thats not a whole lot to make a game like this...
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        it depends what that 50 people includes...  just developers? 50 is a pretty large number in that case.
Most of the people listed in the credits for a game are testers, or other people on the team that aren't really involved in developing the game.