I can't answer that question, but I'd think that surely the man in charge of TN would be privy to his publisher's intended marketing plans and would respond accordingly to avoid this very type of conflict.
So you're telling me that the principles they established (that selling DLC characters is unfair) is completely OK to ignore because THIS version of DoA5 has a U on the end? It's disgusting. It'd be one thing to say they had no plans to release DLC characters for DoA5. It's another thing...
Soooooo.... I'm not the only one that thinks this situation is total tripe, right?
http://shoryuken.com/2012/06/19/team-ninja-have-no-plans-to-sell-additional-characters-feel-downloadable-content-makes-fighting-games-unfair/
Isn't that for DoA5 though? I mean sure, there are some Ultimate threads in there, but aren't most of those threads pertaining to DoA5 instead? I see a whole 4 Ultimate threads.