Non-Banjo fans: "What a cute-looking retro game, I bet Banjo fans must be glad that their happy platformer finally made it to Smash, congrats :)"

Banjo fans and Sakurai:

no, it´s a joke that Sakurai made considering that all these characters he mentions are good characters pretty much forgoten by microsoft despite of their game been really good that even to these days fans stil love them.