Bardock is still a very popular character, even more popular than Super characters in Japan, if this poll gives any sort of indication and is to be believed:LightBing wrote: By new material I mean Super, which is the face of current Dragon Ball. Dragon Ball Heroes is for fans, in that game everyone and their mother has the SSJ transformations. Nappa getting SSJ3 doesn't mean he's being actually marketed, it's just the game cycling it's characters.
Episode of Bardock is more than 6 years old.
FighterZ is for everyone not made specifically for Dragon Ball fans. That's the key difference. You can't expect it to be like Extreme Butoden which has a more limited scope.
Honestly I give Raditz more chances to be in than Bardock at this point. The only thing that could change the situation is the new Dragon movie, there's a chance it might bring Bardock back into the spotlight.
https://www.animeranking.net/stat.php?id=34
And though I would like to see Bardock AND Raditz in this game, Bardock is more likely to be in it.










