In that case I'd have to refer to an earlier comment. It's more likely that Ice Climbers were removed due to balancing rather than debates which always arise whenever Nintendo does anything. Of course I don't know that for sure just like you don't know that they did it to silence debate. You might as well be taking words and shoving them into Sakurai's mouth. Parity isn't a bad thing if it's done for the right reasons. If Ubisoft had said they were keeping them the same because that was as far as they could push the technology on both machines (which is what they say later) then no one would have cared.

It is of course important to note that we are comparing resolutions between two highly competitive home consoles and characters between handheld and home consoles from the same company. This is a case of false equivalence and as I said much earlier these situations are not the same.