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Sakurai outright explained this a while back, and it has to do with CERO (Japanese ESRB) having extremely strange standards.But, skintight suit samus is fine. Like I'm not disagreeing nintendo canned Mai because of her tit's but their choice of censorship is weird.
He explained that they would continuously ask them to turn female models upside-down (even if you can't do that in the actual game) so they could see if there were any panty shots. This is why Peach now has a black void under her dress (which she didn't in previous Smash games). They also had to heavily adjust Palutena because of this, according to him. This is why they didn't even bother trying to put Mai in the game even as a background character because they knew full well that CERO were going to get on their case over it and force her out.
Outright skintight clothing like Zero Suit Samus and Bayonetta is apparently A-OK because it's not a panty shot. CERO are fucking weird.