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they have megaton musashi coming out this year, at this point they're japan exclusive so they have lost out on lot of sales, and also every franchise they own is pretty dead so it's a really bad position to be in right now.
Sounds like one of those instances where getting bought out by another company would actually be beneficial. Problem is, I can't think of anybody who would be willing to buy. Nintendo is still reluctant to go all in on that sort of thing (they only bought Next Level Games because they HAD to). I hear they've collabed with Square Enix, but I don't know the full details on their relationship.
Yeah. I wouldn't be surprised if Level 5 shuts down completely as they're in a bad financial situation and they're just a shell of their former self.
Level-5 were the ones who did Dragon Quest 8 and 9 for Square Enix, and both were received incredibly well. And supposedly, someone mentioned that Level-5 was trying to talk with Square about doing another Dragon Quest.
Unfortunately, that won't happen because she was already shot down by Sephiroth in the eyes of many. She can't be a frontrunner in speculation until the next game.
Well, if they were to go into limbo with no one able to use those games, it'd only be temporary due to it eventually becoming public domain.
Assuming this scenario, it wouldn't be ever again, just for 70 years after the last time it was renewed or something. After that, it becomes public domain.
Yeah, in like... 2087 minimum. That's not much better.
Because I was actually IN that community when GT was new. And almost everyone hated it.
Which wasn't necessary. But even if we pretend it was, there are GT characters that aren't Goku and Vegeta! But did we get any of THOSE? No. Your 3 GT reps are a Goku, a Vegeta, and a goddamn Goku/Vegeta!
No, because that once again shows that a character is nothing more than a moveset to you. And I consider that to be stupid and unreasonable.
Are any of the IPs co-owned? I don't know how publishing rights work, but I know Nintendo and Bandai Namco helped with that before Level-5 started doing it themselves.
Since he said " I realize actions speak louder than words " in an article about swords, does that mean we'll get a character that fights using a pen, since the pen is mightier than the sword?Sakurai Just Made A New Statement Regarding Sword Fighters.
I can’t believe they did my boy Waluigi like this.
The best April Fools Jokes aren’t on April Fools
Jokes aside, those are 3 great picks tho...
No. But that doesn't mean it couldn't revive at some point. Realistically though, I'd imagine someone would keep the rights, but not have the resources to do anything with them. If someone wishes, they could probably still buy them or collaborate with the rights holders.
So Persona is the new JoJo's?
I can think of a couple, but there are caveats:
Depends on if individual creators retain some rights (like S-E does) or if the corporation have most of the rights and creators work as contractors (Nintendo) or what have you. It's extremely difficult to tell what would happen if Level 5 goes into limbo, but...
...Yeah, that's true. I kinda doubt that IP like Layton would lay fallow until 2087 or later, when we're all presumably cyborgs or whatever. (
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Well the fandom does seem to have an affinity for giving the protagonists nicknames of inanimate objects...
So glad someone from FF6 is getting in as a Goofy alt.
I don't think any of their IPs are co-owned. They are either owned by Level-5 or by their publisher, like Dragon Quest 8 and 9 are owned by Square Enix, and Dark Cloud, White Knight Chronicles and Rogue Galaxy are owned by Sony IIRC. But that being said, they did get alot of help publishing their own games outside of Japan.
But those are only outside Japan, right? In those cases, I guess the question would be are they willing to take it a step further...
Nintendo has close ties to layton and yokai, bamco has cloes ties to yokai and ni no kuni. neither has bought them yet so i don't think they'll be bought out by them
yeah, i think half of their teams's job's are sending people to beg yuji hori to make a dragon quest 9 remake.
Didn't Microsoft say it was looking into possibly acquiring a Japanese developer?
Probably a Loftwing.
level-5 would bean okay option, the main thing they have issues with is all the talent leaving , and being to small scale to make big games anynore, as well as now only making japan exclusiv games as well as having very little budget, microsfot could theoretically solve all of this.
Great. 27 years since my life peaked...
In hindsight, that wasn't a very good decision, was it?
And that's without taking into account any other acquisitions between now and then...
I'm pretty sure the main question that speculation will focus on for the majority is, "Is everybody here?"
Ideally? Absolutely. I'd love to be able to continue to play all of my favorites.
Can you really do both at the same time? We do know split development of For 3DS and For Wii U was very taxing. I don’t think they’d ever want to try split development again
Ah, I totally forgot about that; yeah maybe we should NOT do that again, since it ultimately (no pun intended) lowered Smash 4's quality.
I know you're joking about that, but it'd still be a good idea, especially if we were to make Smash 6 with a roster completely consisting of OCs made specifically for it rather than Gaming All-Stars.Also, if we go all-in on the newcomers we can just do a full roster reboot and finally put a stop to the mind-cripplingly boring cut discussions. That's one thing we never have to worry about again
I'm... Not really sure how well that'd work out. Smash's big selling point is the gaming all-stars, so if we strip that away I feel like a large portion of people would just abandon it in favor of stuff like Fraymakers or Rivals of Aether. Take away the all-stars, and it's just another platform fighter. Unless, of course, we shake up the formula a little, but at that point it's just a different game entirely.
Good point. I guess that'd be a "pick your poison" kind of situation, huh? Though which poison would be worse: Cutting some of the roster and risking all these arguments and divisions over cuts and returns, or cut everyone and replace them with OCs?
A Smash Bros. game consisting of villains (assuming that not even rivals or anti-heroes would make it in). I do wonder what that game would be called? Maybe Super Smash Frenemies?
