That's a deadline.
Even if it's short-sighted to miss the deadline, it's still a deadline by which if they don't have enough copies pre-ordered, they aren't going to be able to have a character consistently available across consoles no matter what- and they'll have to rely on people bringing their own.
I honestly don't know much about this TO stuff or how they go about doing this. But I'd like to hear from someone who is- because they'd know if this could be an issue or not that would interfere with having Goro be tournament-playable.
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Mikemetroid does this TO stuff... So, would Goro be able to feasibly be a tournament character for the time which he's pre-order exclusive?