Also, I don't recall the exact comment Sakurai made, but he said they were near their limit. Unless he said something (quite literally) yesterday, or I misread the quote in the few times I've read it, I'm sure he said that they'll be around the same (because he also noted that he wanted to add more older IP support). So expect a vastly different roster if it stays at 35 (though now that Namco is involved, that quote may be up in the air, since Namco is one of the best in the business when it comes to quality with a high roster).
I played both, and while it was only a beta, I felt that allstars requires more strategy. In Smash getting your kills stolen isn't cool. Also, Allstars is 3x more aggressive than Smash is, where in Smash you have to be defensive in order to win, while in Allstars you have to be offensive, but not in a way to where you randomly press buttons or supers. I almost never use a level one unless I combo into it, and I come up with new strategies everyday as to SSB it was mostly hit and run. And no, I don't suck at Smash, I am actually pretty good, but it didn't feel as if it didn't have that much depth with the huge unbalancing and only a few characters with combos and not huge combos at that. I won't make anymore comparisons until the full game is out though.
