I don't think they'll do something like that, but I still believe Alucard is involved in some way in the 3DS game.
It better be in a playable way. It's weird posting in a hardcore castlevania forum because i literally feel like I'm the only one who prefers sotn's style of gameplay.
It just has way more replay value to me, the 4th time playing sotn i was getting swords I never got before, the same can't be said with a game where you have the same weapon the whole game. I loved the customization, i think it could benefit the series a lot. No one said you can't join the hardcore gameplay with the variety of new. It confuses me why they don't embrace both.