CosmicQuark
Smash Master
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To your first point, I actually think that's why Banjo & Kazooie would make a great final reveal trailer. The names being thrown out--Bandana Waddle Dee, Skull Kid, Geno--they wouldn't really make for great hype trailers compared to Ridley, Simon and K Rool, and some like Geno wouldn't be as appreciated from the wider audience outside of Smash speculation. Banjo & Kazooie are in a unique position--third party characters with an enormous legacy with Nintendo as originally first party characters. And the franchise has the characters, music and settings to make an awesome reveal trailer. I think the only character that could match that would be Sora--but even then, Sora was not as popular as Banjo in 2015 ballot days, and we know the character's possible thanks to Disney giving the okay, whereas Banjo & Kazooie would be the defining "making the impossible possible" moment. My only hesitations are--while Microsoft would like Banjo in Smash, I have a fear Nintendo wouldn't and would genuinely be impossible. And 103 possibly being the final stage count does have me worried, and we may not get any more new series IP for the base game.I already expressed I don't think Banjo will make it into the base game. Just the idea they would do a full cinematic trailer for them when so many other characters are fightimg for contention just seems impossible. So i actually am anticipating DLC moreso
Fact is they had to make Smash 4 DLC for the Wii-U which was dying pretty hard in 2016 so I'm sure they cut DLC short to focus on Ultimate instead. With Ultimate, do you guys think they would have a DLC span lasting the same length or longer than Smash 4 (7 characters, with 3 veterns and 4 new characters)?
Knowing all Smash Ultimate DLC will be new characters is extremly exciting. And Switch is a hot console, they dont have to settle for just 7 newcomers. If this is to be the Ultimate Smash, they could spend the next 2-3 years addimg characters like a traditional fighting game dlc format, increasing fan favorites like Banjo drastically and giving Sakurai time to deal with legal and licensing issues without worrying about deadlines. I think DLC character royalties would also be cheaper than royalties of characters in the base roster? Since DLC characters inevitably sell less units than the base roster. I wish i fully understood that aspect
Unfortunately his criteria worries me. Of course Sakurai changes his mind often but he has said he wants every character to have something unique about them.
K Rool has unique properties on his Blunderbuss, obviously Inkling has Ink, Simom/Rictor have long range whips and projectiles, even Ridley has a down B that stuns and does a million damage. Maybe I'm not creative but Banjo & Kazooie seem more like they just have normal solid moves but nothing really sticking out, which i wouldn't mind but i wonder if to Sakurai that dampens his view of them. That and he says he tries not to add characters from dead series, though that was 2008 and at this point a lot of series in Smash are only popping up every once in a while and are sometimes considered dead.
Banjo has fan popularity on his side though, and a couple words from Phil Spencer. I hope at this point thats all thats needed for the Smash team to want to add a character. So far none of the character picks have been nonpopular characters, they really want to satisfy with the "everyone is here" philosophy, and make the impossible possible. God dreams will be made and shattered in the next 3 months in the most dangerous quantities we'll ever see
And I have a differing opinion to many people--I really would love for Smash Ultimate to be the last game. I feel like any successor would be taking a major step back, and this is the perfect opportunity to make Smash a games-as-a-service. We have everything we need in the base game--every prior character, almost every stage, modes everyone has been wanting for years, combined console and handheld system. Then characters/stages could be continually added. The only issue is Nintendo hasn't been good with backwards compatibility, and their Switch successor could very well not play Switch games, and an Ultimate port would have the same legal hurdles as bringing everyone back in Smash's successor. But that would be my pipe dream, as it's something I had hoped for years, and "everyone is here" opened that possibility.