I said in previous page that "Sakurai likes the character" is enough of a reason to add character. That's why Terry is in.
Yes. New explicitly means they are speaking to companies that do not have characters present in Smash. More just means they're going to add more third-party characters, potentially from already represented collaborators like Capcom and Sega. There is a world of difference there.
The Spirit was probably implemented way before Sakurai and Nintendo probably decided these next characters and since then Shantae still remained a popular request, Wayforward has continued to collaborate with Nintendo, and she's getting a new game. Could see her back in the cards with this DLC.
Yeah, you can definitely find a lot of posts I made back last year in November where I kept saying Nintendo would absolutely go for a Joker pick if the question was strengthening their partnerships with Atlus.
I have high hopes for a couple of reasons.
If it makes you feel better, there were people here absolutely certain that Banjo-Kazooie was going to get a Switch port or remaster announcement last week and...well, play it on Xbox.
Spring Man will probably have another chance next time around, but Rex won't. That plus the demand for Rex has been greater.
love to wait another ?? years to get another chance at smash bros
Not like you can include both at the same time at this rate tbh. Add Rex now and Spring Man doesn't happen cause of the Assist Trophy, wait till next Smash game for Spring Man and Rex will probably get ignored for whatever Xenoblade protagonist is current.
Rex/Xenoblade fans have definitely been more vocal since Ultimate's release than ARMS/Spring Man fans.
Rex is at least a popular request. Spring Man literally died when he was an AT and there's not much of a push to include over say Waluigi. Granted a Mii Costume is "less" damning but overall there's been outcry for Rex to be playable and Sakurai said he would've made Rex playable if not for timing.
Ha. At the end of the day I think a lot of people were at one point or another guilty of looking at promo picks through a lens. Microsoft might not be porting BK/BT to Switch anytime soon, but his inclusion does coincide with a strong tide of Microsoft produced projects and collaborations happening on Nintendo, which includes the murmurs of Halo coming over. So while Banjo isn't coinciding with a port or a new game or anything, he is moreso emblematic of current circumstances that can by-and-large be seen as promotional; and the reason Banjo was chosen to herald that is because it seemed everyone - even Phil Spencer - believed it was the only choice. This also applies to Terry (KoF and SamSho are back in full force, company has a strong Nintendo presence post-resurrection) and Joker (Atlus are working on SMTV, worked directly with Nintendo on TMS#FE which is getting ported, had ties to Nintendo for a long time). Hero is a bit more "blatant" in its promotional sense but then I also imagine it was more serendipitous that the DQXI port happened when it did.
To be fair, outside of Waluigi & maybe Isaac, most of the demand for characters that are ATs either decreased significantly or are straight-up dead.
Sakurai said:
That was honestly wild. I think I even remember speculation after a while that they may not have intended to mention that, or that it was a pipe dream or some such. But nope, here we are all those years later with a version that - outside of technical limitations - looks better than its vanilla counterpart.
Monster Hunter would be pretty much the obvious pick for Capcom.
Because you will be able to play that on a new console presumably with new characters, features and junk?
At the same time Spring Man, Waluigi, and Issac were the only ones that would've had significant demand even if they weren't ATs. I think ARMS fans were fine with it because there would always be the next game but Rex fans are more indignant because of the possibility of Rex being passed over again in future for XC3's protagonist, and Sakurai straight up saying he would've put him in the game if XC2 was announced/released earlier. Rex feels like a genuine missed opportunity.
Dragon Ball Budokai Tenkaichi 3 has 98, but they're all pretty much clones. Same with Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 which has 119.
A Brawl/Smash 4-style reset would be the best case scenario IMO. I keep imagining a Street Fighter V style reset for the next game.
We got Mario Kart 8 Deluxe as the only Mario Kart game for the foreseeable future on Switch. If anything I think people would be more willing to pay for versions of Ultimate with new characters for the next couple console generations then a game with a full reset.
it'd be funny if they flip our assumptions again and despite all this pomp & circumstance we get like
I mean sure that's the ideal, that their just keep porting ultimate forever and add more, but if it doesn't happen they're not going to kill the series. Smash is and will always remain special, they will continue to make it even if the circumstances mean they have to leave characters behind.
