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[TomGuycott]

Ice Climbers is the exception, confirmed to have been cut due to 3ds limitations, but also due to lack of popularity and time (Sakurai seemed to imply they could have been made to work if they had more time than they had).

My statement above was more in line with the other cuts: such as Roy, Pichu, Lucas and Wolf. That is more in line with standard fighting game roster changes.

Ice Climbers fits more with the situation Frank West had in vanilla MvC3, where they cut him because he slowed down online mode at the time, only to be added later.