I think it'll be the fourth character. Revealed and released in November alongside the reveal for the final character.
Nah, Brave. It's a direct English translation of Yuusha, which is just how the character is actually referred to as in Japanese. If you want to hide the tracks of your character, that is a pretty weak name to use. Jack, conversely, is a lot more obscure, the most obvious connection in hindsight is Jack Frost - but even then you can make a whole lot of guesses as to which Atlus character that would be (a bunch of people figured they'd go for SMTV's protagonist over Persona 5).
Cloud was released a whole month after his reveal, actually
Those movies are just awful in general. Merida is the single worst part of Brave and the whole movie hinges on her being an unrelentingly selfish, thoughtless brat that only apologizes at the last possible moment the plot will allow, and then she faces no punishment for her callous, utter stupidity. She should have been grounded for a goddamn decade.
I know but that wasn't what I meant.
Oh, well then I think we'll get two "Available Now" characters: Erdrick after Nintendo's E3 Direct and Pack 4 after a Smash Direct in November.
Hmmm. Idk if I agree with it being on the nose. "Yuusha" is a really common word in Japanese, and also translates to "hero," though that's not as literal. "Brave" is also a direct translation of "bureibu," another word used often enough in games. I think it feels a lot more on the nose because of how likely of a contender DQ is for DLC, personally.
I don't think they'll release any of the packs at the same time. I think we'll get a Joker gameplay trailer during the inevitable March Nintendo Direct (to line up with the P5R announcement in March), with a release date in the next month. I think they could show a teaser for Erdrick in the March Direct, but I could also see them revealing and releasing them at E3 (alongside a teaser for Pack 3, because they'll probably want to show a character more geared towards American audiences at E3).
I really doubt they'd have revealed Joker in December if they planned on releasing him six months later.
I agree. I am 100% certain that they'll show gameplay in the March Nintendo Direct, and then release him in April.
Technically, the Fighters Pass content is supposed to be released by February 2020. I think one of the characters will release in early 2020.
I don't think so. They'll probably mention Smash during the Persona event in March, but it won't be where they will premiere his gameplay trailer (showing a new Smash character trailer during a Japan-Only TV broadcast would be a new one). The Persona 5 Switch port will probably be revealed during that event though.
I agree with this. I don't know why, but I've thought the first character would be April ever since the pre-release direct. Just kind of makes sense in terms of how many characters there are to release and when they said they would be released by.
Yes, the Game Awards did stream on Japanese sites like NicoNico. My main point is that the Persona event is a TV Broadcast. Everyone involved would want as many people to watch a Smash gameplay trailer live, and showing his trailer on Japanese TV would not accomplish that.
Dunno if it did but everyone was so convinced Smash wouldn't show up at a non-Nintendo curated event so we're pretty much over the point where we need a Nintendo event to see a Smash character, let alone one that has already been revealed. The character's existence is known, that's the most important part. All Nintendo needs to do is post a gameplay montage and release date on Twitter and people will get to it (Bayonetta and Corrin release dates were basically dropped on Twitter).
A gameplay trailer is still a big deal (definitely bigger than a release date), even if the character's identity was already know. They will air the Joker gameplay trailer in a place where international audiences can watch it live, I am 100% certain of that. I don't even know why I have to argue this lol.
They may mention Smash at the Persona event, but Joker's gameplay reveal will likely be during the Spring Direct.
Do you really think I forgot about Shulk's trailer? International audiences were easily able to watch that Nintendo Direct live if they wanted to (in-fact, I did).
Which episode of the Pokémon anime was followed by a multitude of Pokémon announcements? The Persona event is literally there to announce several projects. Having Joker's game play reveal there works just fine.
Pokémon has a weekly Sunday live-action show that occasionly has new reveals. Revealing Joker's gameplay during that Persona event would be the same as revealing Mewtwo's gameplay during that show.
Likely a logistics thing with coding. Having a completely ambiguous name like that would not only be harder to keep track of, slowing down the process significantly, but it could also add to the likelihood of making a mistake (as would the unnecessary length of the term).
It's pretty reductive to boil that entire event down to "it's just a weekly Sunday show" given that the even itself was announced months in advance after the teaser of an announcement. It's a lot bigger than you're giving credit for.
I'm totally up for that. Joker's gameplay footage will be shown in a March/April Nintendo Direct, i'm confident in that.I smell an avatar bet a-brewin'...
He came out during the spring, if I recall. I expect about the same for Joker.
Mewtwo came out in April.
Yeah, it will be a big event for Persona. They will probably mention Joker in Smash during the event, and they might even replay the gameplay trailer if the Direct it will be shown in airs first, but the trailer won't premiere there. How about we turn this into an avatar bet if you want to keep this going.
Well hey, Smash is a big thing for Persona, so there you go. Nothing stopping them from debuting game play footage and for that to go online immediately afterward, especially when Sakurai commented that he wasn't sure how the information rollout would be handled (or whether characters would get trailers).
Eh, i'm not really thinking about Sakurai's perspective when talking about the reveal schedule. It benefits Nintendo the most to show the gameplay trailer during a livestream easily accessible for everyone on the internet. I don't really have any interest in discussing this further though (since this is going to keep going in circles).
If I knew how to draw well I would take you up on a bet, but i'll back off on this one.
I dunno, characters seem to take a while to make. Joker wasn't even playable as of a few weeks ago. We got 3 characters released at the same time at E3 2015, I could see it happen again this year.
They did the same for Mewtwo in Smash 4. Reveal in November 2014, release in April 2015.
For what it's worth, (correct me if it's a mistranslation) Joker can introduce himself like a Jack Frost in Persona Q2 :P
I'm not familiar with the Persona games, but you're right from what I can tell from a quick search. Joker uses Jack's style of speech if you choose the option.
