There's a question I have (might be controversial)
Smash DLC not only gets alot of hype, but seems to sell very well, and it's not thanks in parts to the actual characters in the Fighter Passes.
So I got to ask, what do you think a Fighter Pass would like if you tried to make the DLC NOT Sell Well. Alternatively, if you think Smash DLC would sell no matter the character, why is that?
i've thought about this question from time to time, i think the truthful honest answer is not a single character they would add would ever sell bad, period, smash is WAY too big at this point for a character to sell bad
but in terms of what character would sell "Worse than others"? i've thought about this
people tend to like to answer with absurd answers like "oh bubsy or gex" but i don't think that's even close to the right answer, those characters are popular in meme culture and people can get mad about this, that can sell and gain attention, and even outside of that bubsy and gex have SOME nostalgia for some people to some extent, and kids will see their designs and be appealed to them. Consider Piranha Plant, a character i KNOW is venomously despised by a decent of people within this bubble but do you think general audiences care? heck there's a lot of people within this bubble(including me) who just see it as a fun new character addition from a series they know
the realm of "what characters would garner the worst reception and thus sell the worst" is difficult because it's a question often asked in a bubble of smash like "oh scimblos would HATE kosmos, mcjrpgs would HATE crash, boomers would HATE freddy, zoomers would HATE Ryu Ninja Gaiden" but those are all answers in a bubble, those are still often characters with massive giant fanbases
to me i think a character to sell the worse would have to have LITTLE nostalgia, and not a super appealing design to a general audience and I have 3(?) kinda(?) answers(?) they're not super solid and i have counter points against them all
1. is a character from a more realistic 1st person type shooter game, Heavy and Doom Guy would 100% have appeal but I have to wonder, would "soldier" from call of duty or CS: GO be something people care about? they're both not really characters and have not the most interesting designs in the world. The GIANT counter argument is the sheer absurdity of "call of duty real looking solider" would be huge and talked about forever, and those are still massive franchises, and the weakest answer I personally
2. Is a character from a mobile game but not one with a particularly strong fanbase, i.e i wouldn't say an angry bird or a draglia lost character applies here i'm talkin like. The "doodle jump" guy or subway surfer kid or "temple run man" stuff along those lines i'm sure you can think of more. The problem HERE is that the smash bubble would HATE these probably but they're also a mixture of mass appeal characters and absurdness that would CREATE appeal
3. This one i feel bad for because it's a specific character and i hold no ill will towards the series or characters but i think "Ninjala Kid" would not go over particularly well. They have an appealing enough design for me to not think they'd go over DISASTEROUSLY but they're characters from a game that's not particularly loved anywhere in the world(it's slightly more popular in japan but not on that yokai watch in it's prime or something level), characters who would for sure get the "splatoon ripoff waste of slot" stuff, and they're not absurd enough to have that backing them, they're the only specific character i can think of to have no backing to them whatsoever besides slightly appealing designs
but at the end of the day this is a question i think is impossible to answer, everyone will have different thoughts and the only way to see the results is if a character someone thought would sell bad got in and they released sales numbers
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