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On the other hand, they very easily could have made Pikmin 4 without Olimar in it. Or given him a much smaller role than they did. But they didn't. If they're trying to erase Olimar, they should be doing a much better job of it. Though yeah the Pikmin themselves do get a ton of merch and...

Villager and Isabelle are both coming back, end of story. I hope people entertaining this realize that if we're to the point where one of these two is getting cut, then pretty much all non-Echo derivatives are getting cut. Save possibly for saying that some form of Ganon/Ganondorf should be...

I could totally see something like, to reuse the example, Kazuya getting cut but Lloyd Irving making it in as a newcomer. That sort of thing is not very farfetched at all. (As an aside, I don't even think Lloyd is a clear "downgrade" from Tekken, anyway, due to his history of demand from Smash...

Yeah, I don't dispute that forums like these are firmly within the hardcore bubble, and how reflective the polls are is a hotly debated topic. That's why I made no such definitive conclusions about Isaac's placing, sticking to more generic statements like "he's up there with some of the most...

I did not claim that he did better than Banjo on the actual Ballot. I was just using his strong polling data (given that we lack any official word on how well he did) to support my statement that he's an upper-echelon character in popularity. The fact that he was polling so well made him very...

I tend to observe this strange effect where Isaac is least likely to be recognized by those outside his fandom. Come on, the dude was polling better than Banjo in the Ballot era by some measures.

But with Waluigi, it's less what he does and more how he does it. He has a highly distinct personality that is very easy to build around. He would probably end up punching and kicking a lot, but those moves can be just as interesting and unique as the things other characters do simply because...

There are a lot of stages that I would like to see back; I'm personally not asking for a complete do-over. But some cleaning of the house and very many new stages, yes. Some meaningful updates to some returning stages would also be nice, too.

For Ring Fit, I was thinking a mix between Beginnia and Transient Temple, a stage that rotates between the open outdoor areas and the temple/gymnasium stuff.

It shouldn't matter whether it's a first level/world stage or not if it's the most fitting to represent that game/franchise. I do think it matters to have enough stages that are very easy to associate to their respective games/franchises, and that lots of players are familiar with; naturally...

Decidueye is clearly more popular than Incineroar worldwide. The fact that Rowlet is very popular also makes it look much closer than it is; of course you can't conclude that everyone who likes Rowlet also likes Decidueye, but there's definitely at least some splitting of votes going on there...

The bubble is somewhat of a moving target depending on how big you think the roster would be, but I'd say roughly anyone in that middle tier, outside the top 30 or so who are practically guaranteed to return, but not necessarily the Pichu tier. I don't think Mac or Ness will be cut either, but...

Sure but what I'm saying is they're not necessarily more attached to the average third party than they are the average bubble first party. Regardless, because of the nature of them being guests which require more extensive licensing and negotiation costs and efforts, you can't judge the third...

In terms of sales of the base game, each individual third party past the first handful of them is a diminishing return relative to how much it costs licensing-wise to add the third party, unless possibly it's fitting into some grander marketing scheme like EiH. They'll likely think it...

Part of it is that socially it's easier to talk up characters' merits than to argue more negatively about a character, and people are more likely to chime in to defend a character they're particularly confident in or invested in. Part of it, also (and I've said this before), is the following...