TSR's Super Smash Bros Thread|SWITCH HYPE TRAIN NOW BOARDING

[Kriven]

There's always the chance that Sakurai was informed about this new Ganondorf before diving too deeply into Smash development, just as was the case with Greninja, Robin, and Lucina.

I find it doubtful that HW Gdorf will appear, however, simply because he probably isn't Nintendo's "core" Ganondorf... He's a side dish by another developer.