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No he never said that. It was stated that maybe if you put a vote in for a character maybe they would be made playable. No one from Nintendo, including Sakurai, has ever said the character with the most votes would be made playable.
And you're assuming Banjo-Kazooie has a shot at winning the ballot, why?
No, Sakurai said the remaining DLC fighters after Ryu would be the result of fan demand, and Iwata explained that the ballot was for fans to give suggestions for future fighters.
Implying Sakurai just throws a dart at a wall of names and makes that character..?
Personally, I feel tonight is the make-or-break for anymore content. The Smash Twitter account updates at night, and we're getting the DLC no latter then very early Wednesday morning since the maintenance is stated to be late Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning for the US. To add to that, the DLC is also stated to be out for both the east and west on the 30th, so due to timezone differences it can't be too late in the day for the US since then it'd cross into the 31st for Japan. So if they are going to tell us, tonight is really the only time it can work since the DLC will likely follow the maintenance and they'd probably want to give us an early heads up before it seems to be too short notice otherwise.
Layton 7 isn't a main entry, it's a spinoff.
In this thread, we analyze things a LOT more deeply than that.
Didn't we get the Ryu/Lucas/Roy update literally moments before they released though?
Sakurai would likewise not care for the same reasons in the case of adding Snake, who has the benefits of much higher popularity and ease of reworking in Sm4sh's engine due to being a veteran.
No, people are taking the post I linked to completely out of context.
Interesting, but its hard to gauge anything from this. The last update lasted an hour and all it did was update Tournament mode.
Why are you asking me to choose? You probably know the answer.
Um, according to Ned's post there, it didn't.
Pretty sure you are under-analyzing it if you are misquoting and make assumptions off those misquotes
You heard it here, folks.
It's hard to judge what a person would choose when factoring in bias vs logic in an argument. Just playing it safe, and no, I don't know the answer to that question considering what I said. Only you do, Bluey.
I'm not quite sure why people keep bringing this up. This is speculation about personal matters. We really have no grounds to be arguing about whether or not this is a personal affront to Sakurai/Kojima.
Personally I'm believing his overall opinion on Konami is likely negative. I'm sure he's still friends with Kojima though, even though he's not part of Konami anymore.
The thing is though, that Kojima still supports Snake in Smash. He's retweeted pictures of the Snake amiibo, as Konami has.
The thing is that was done via a stream, which was announced around a full week in advance, so even so we had a week to be hyped up and prepared for whatever came with it. Yet with this particular update, we haven't gotten any word of a stream or the like despite us nearing the 1 day away mark. So as of right now, it looks like the twitter is the only venue we have, and we only have tonight before the update hits and I doubt they'd remind us minutes beforehand.
Yacht Club purchased by Nintendo confirmed, Shovel Knight DLC incoming, much lamentation and gnashing of teeth.
Wasn't that for Korea's release of the game?
Maybe it was, but as far as I know, it was to fix tournament. The update likely wouldn't require the US servers to be down.
Also, an interview with Xander Mobus, and don't worry, I'll post the video link later, had him reveal that when he auditioned as the Announcer of Smash 4, Nintendo did NOT tell him what the audition was even for (Though, he personally had a PRETTY good idea.
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Oh I totally forgot about this. Now that silly "it would make Kojima sad" excuse doesn't even have a leg to stand on. Kojima was the one who said "sakurai if you're watching please use Snake."
If Yacht Club was purchased by Nintendo then I wouldn't care about Shovel Knight getting into the game. Anyway, I don't think it means anything one way or the other about SK in Smash.
If revolutionizing a whole genre and popularizing cinematic storytelling in gaming isn't iconic, then you're outta your mind. He's every bit as iconic the rest of the third parties that are currently in this game.
There's three icons in this game that go beyond gaming itself and are pure pop culture icons. Those are Pac-Man, Mario, and Pikachu. It's not really fair to compare the rest to them. Megaman, Ryu, Snake, Sonic, those are icons of gaming. I don't think some childless 80-year-old man would recognize them. But even if you've never picked up a controller in your life and the last time you ever saw anyone play a videogame was Pong in the 70s, you know the first three I mentioned.
Two were cut due to the separation of Transformation fighters, have had an interview dedicated to explaining why technical limits kept them out, one in the game due to high popularity.... one who will very likely be the same, and one that's... just been lost. No real reason given by Sakurai, Nintendo, Kojima, or Konami. time lapse situation) to even BEGIN work on him and would end up being basically the very last character to come.
Shovel Knight better be ready to dig his reputation grave if this ultimately doesn't mean something.
Um, Sonic is definitely up there with Pac-Man, Mario, and Pikachu.
