PM can't be shown for legal reasons, though; and Melee's endured this long in the scene, so suddenly removing it from high-level play just because "hey new game" is being as biased as the people who cry about Smash 4 not being "Melee 2.0" and hating it for that alone.



Melee is old, yes, but it would have never lived as long as it has without being considered important. Hell, if it weren't for Melee, Smash 4 would never have been considered for tournament play. Melee is what got Smash to the competetive scene, really, so it has the most significance of the entire franchise in that respect.



Melee is what turned Smash from a casual game into a full, competetively-viable series. Saying it has no relevance is like saying that Super Mario 64 has no relevance because of Super Mario 3D World; the latter would have never existed (in Smash's case, competetively) without the former.

It's because of Melee that we got stuff like Project M, it's because of Melee that competetive Smash is as known as it is. Without Melee being at stuff like MLG, Evo or Apex, do you really think anybody in the fighting scene would bother looking into Smash 4 competetively? Without Melee's ginormous impact, this scene would be far, far less developed than it is.



Age doesn't matter for games; if it did, people should be forgeting that Melee even existed and just stop doing anything in relation to it. But they don't, and that's good. Melee's old, yes; but is age really the deciding factor of kicking a popular game out? If anything, the two scenes are so different that it's actually good to see both Melee and 4 side-by-side.



But if 4 wants to replace Melee, it's going to need to be as impactful as Melee was; and that's a fantasy that's far off. Melee changed the way people looked at Smash, and 4 doesn't.



If what should be used is age-based, than from 2008 to 2014, there should have only been Brawl tournaments, since Melee was so old, so archaic and so irrelevant, eh? No, because Brawl wasn't viable. Smash 4 is just starting to grow, and it's nothing like Melee.



Saying one community needs to die because another is more recent just makes you come off as a massive donkey to the community you say needs to die.