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Easy picks would be Ray Man and Crash. Sora and Master Chief are great as well. But I also think another character like Steve would also be great as well. But I would imagine (while controversial) Angry Birds Red and Fortnite Jonesy would due way more than Steve crashing Twitter. The whole internet would become a mine field during an earthquake
Mario and Mario
Honestly, if it weren't for the fact Dragalia released in 2018, I'd be saying it's a Lock, but Pyra and Mythra happened and I doubt Euden will be in unless we get a Third Pass lol.
Sakurai was also unaware of the fact that Mother 3 was supposed to be Japan only when he was selected for Brawl.
Both Banjo and Hero definitely feel like they're as far as Nintendo is willing to go with region oriented characters, and even then the former was known to Japanese audiences and the latter had almost all the mainline games released and localized in the US and Europe.
I wouldn't be so sure. He seems like the kind of character Nintendo would end DLC on...
Oh yeah, that franchise. I legit forgot about that, but that's practically a Japanese tradition at this point and even more Japanese-specific than DQ ever was (which saw NA releases under Dragon Warrior - it's why an ABC reporter in 1988 confused Dragon Quest as a different series entirely from Dragon Warrior).
With one caveat: Konami did legit license the Castlevania IP to a mobile studio who straight up made a Castlevania clone in order to convert it into an official game:
Is it the same developer of that "Codename: C" - a.k.a Castlevania rip-off from last year right? https://t.co/0NrKtth6EI
— Leonardo Ferreira (@leon4rdo) July 28, 2020
I do think Crash and Dante are pretty good contenders, although characters like Phoenix have a surprisingly wide reach themselves. A LoL character have that rare global reach Steve has but is historically not associated with Nintendo, which is why I'm hesitant on naming that (although it could be in the conversation too). Sora, Chief, Kratos and Lara Croft are also possible contenders IMHO. And if other "second third parties" are on the cards, I'd add Chun-Li and Eggman since those are two of the very few such characters with a truly global reach themselves.
What's funny is that I think either spirits or even a Mii Costume would be a solid and realistic fit for Euden. Its not too much investment or risk, but would effectively introduce them to an audience that's otherwise unfamiliar with them. You'd have a European audience that's a bit screwed if they want the experience more of it, but otherwise DL could do a lot worse making its debut on a Nintendo console in that way.
Most People Satisfied: Probably Master Chief and Shovel Knight.
Crash and Sora. Both of these characters are heavily requested within the smash fandom and are from very popular games from both the West and the East. You won't hear much complaining from these two.
More like Banned-in-EUden, amirite?Claims to be named Euden
Isn't available in the EU
Checkmate, nonbelievers
Should have been called USden or JAPANden.Claims to be named Euden
Isn't available in the EU
Checkmate, nonbelievers
Toon Zelda and Pink Gold Peach
It's a combination of **** netcode, a horrifically handled release (Japan and SE Asia get it, then America gets it, then there's the Steam port and then there's the European release but half of this wasn't communicated properly and they did a lot of undercutting of their partners) and the pandemic
Crash and Master Chief would be my guess. They probably would have the least amount of complaints.
That second name contains a slur against the Japanese, JP's the shortened version. You shouldn't get in trouble as the site's censor failed to catch that, just a heads up for the future, this was clearly not maliciously intended
Ironically enough in Japan Konami is the best supporter of the switch and they have had a ton of hit's.
Please the greatest amount of people - Crash and Master Chief
Yikes! Thank you for informing me. Just changed that.
If I had to guess, probably above Banjo, but below the other Fighter's Pack characters.
I haven't played any of his games but I hear about him alot outside of the general Smash community so maybe? idk.
According to this chart, Crash games usually sell around 1.3~1.4M copies there. So decently appealing to Japan, I'd say.
I mean, selling well doesn't really indicate Smash requests
in a english forum you'll see more people who think that they're preferred picks are popular worldwide, im sure there are characters nobody knows of here like a character form momtaro dentetsu that would be seen like people here see master cheif or crash.
My turn.
that was years ago, they struggle to hit anything impressive now.
He would most likely get the same amount of celebration as Banjo & Kazooie over in Japan. Probably more since what I found out on the web, the Nintendo 64 was actually slightly behind the Sega Saturn in sales in Japan.
I’m getting unreasonably excited over rumors but MGS Remake, Silent Hill from Bloober, Silent Hills from Kojima, and IgaVania 1999? Broooooo pleeaaaaase
Yeah, that's what it seems like. His thing, aside from being the old PS1 mascot, is that he's very big in the West and still decently large in Japan. I can definitely see him being a big crowd-pleaser on his own.
Yeah the Saturn was Sega finally mastering how to really market their console to a Japanese audience to the point where its still a beloved system there to this day.
A lot of it comes down to figuring out the character duo that would please both regions that much. Sora would have to be one, and might come down to a Capcom character for the other. (Maybe Monster Hunter, its hard to say).
As some others have said, Licensing is probably better overall than outright selling. Like....I do understand that some people would like Nintendo to buy Konami, especially when some of it's series like Castlevania and Bomberman do very well with Nintendo(and not including the fact that many would start clamouring for alot of Konami and Hudson Soft characters in Smash). But while Nintendo may throw a few bones here and then, Nintendo really isn't the best pick when it comes to bringing back dormant IPs. Franchises like Ganbare Goemon, Suikoden and Boktai aren't just going to magically come back.
Taking a hiatus is a bit pointless if you're still lurking.
