-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
EVO Japan prize payouts announced; 1st place in SF5 gets 9k (converted to USD), Smash Ultimate gets Pro Controller
- Thread starter Professor Beef
- Start date
Tbh I'm hard-pressed to think of a reason why Nintendo (or any company) should be obligated to chip in anything.
High fighting game fans,
Your tournament payouts are trash.
Your tournament payouts are trash.
It's not about obligation; it's about marketing. Tournaments are a low-cost marketing opportunity. Why wouldn't they want to get their game in front of even more eyes if possible?
Because they don't need ... it already beat records of people at the tourney without any news about the prize =P
Smash players don't need a Mercedes Benz when they already have one they can use in Mario Kart
Honestly all those prizes are awful.
9k for 1st place at an EVO is pretty pathetic. Like, I know the fgc doesn't have the same kind of money flowing into it as the bigger esport games. But I'm pretty sure 9k is the kind of money people could make winning big Warcraft 3 tourneys 15 years ago
9k for 1st place at an EVO is pretty pathetic. Like, I know the fgc doesn't have the same kind of money flowing into it as the bigger esport games. But I'm pretty sure 9k is the kind of money people could make winning big Warcraft 3 tourneys 15 years ago
That's not how business works.
You can *always* get more sales. You can *always* expose your products to more audiences.
They don't HAVE to... it's just a way to support the community.
FGC is the poverty eSports. And Smash is the poverty FGC game.High fighting game fans,
Your tournament payouts are trash.
What indication has Nintendo ever given that it cares about the competitive smash community?
Yes, it's against the law to charge entrance fees and use that money for the prize pool. So Japanese tournaments are stuck scraping together whatever prize pool they can from their limited resources
Well US EVO isn´t doing much bigger prizes than this either, SF5 winner had a big bonus atleast
https://www.esportsearnings.com/tournaments/36614-evo-2019-ssbu (and Smash got some more than a pro controller)
Like others have said, fighting games just don´t have the sponsors and general interest unfortunately. Still the niche eSports.
Not everything has to be for profit. Nintendo could and should support eSports even if it's just a PR thing. They have billions in cash and some people are talking like they can't give away 100k to their biggest eSports game as prize money because they won't make anything from it (which is wrong anyway). Crazy shit.
The way people talk about this you would think that some of you are part of Nintendo's shareholder group and have some sort of financial stake in all this.
It would be a nice thing to do that harms nobody if Nintendo contributed. That's it. It is lame that they do not. Not everything has to be a matter of profits and advertising and I feel like the only people excusing Nintendo under the "yeah well they don't have to" banner are the people who are not personally effected by this and this shit doesn't get brought up when it's a matter of if their favourite character did or didn't get into the dlc.
It would be a nice thing to do that harms nobody if Nintendo contributed. That's it. It is lame that they do not. Not everything has to be a matter of profits and advertising and I feel like the only people excusing Nintendo under the "yeah well they don't have to" banner are the people who are not personally effected by this and this shit doesn't get brought up when it's a matter of if their favourite character did or didn't get into the dlc.
boy.....the efforts to really get fighting games e-sports to take off really shows /s
God that is straight trash
God that is straight trash
Everyone remember back in the Switch reveal trailer it showed an eSports team getting ready for a Splatoon tournament? Nintendo wants to have it's cake and eat it too. They want the free publicity and stature that eSports can bring their games, but that interview shows the company has no interest in really putting in the time & effort to foster an eSports scene.
I mean of course not. Splatoon has a tickrate of like...8, they only care when they can compare it to other games to make it look like they're in the conversation when, in reality, they could care less.
If the ticket fees don't go toward the prize pool where do they go? Is it still free entry or?
"Japanese law only allows us to pay out 20 times the entry fee" huh.... that's weirdly specific
"Japanese law only allows us to pay out 20 times the entry fee" huh.... that's weirdly specific
Last edited:
They have venue fees, they're not charging entry fees per-game, once you pay that, registering for any game you want is free.
probably have something to do with the tournament being open bracket.
cant guarantee your sponsored players won't be knocked out by some no name.
EVO is "gathering their own event sponsorships," that's where the prize money is coming from. But they can't give money to the Smash winner because giving esport money in Japan requires a JESU license, and giving a JESU license for a Smash player require Nintendo's involvement.
