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I’d like to note that Puyo is very possibly on this list too, we don’t get specific sales numbers but we do have a series total sales number and it would average at about 2 million per game (most Puyo games did not get localized)
I think most of us say Master Chief because hes the Xbox Guy.
This is the one I'm really sceptical about because they completely bungled the story and themes in The Medium so I have little hope for how well they'd handle Silent Hill.
The most characters the largest amount of the core Smash speculation fanbase would like to be Crash and Master Chief or Doomguy. These characters have been talked about the most in speculation recently so seeing them would likely end everything off well.
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It's probably just to be consistent with the new leggings.
Fair enough, but Sharklord was asking how he'd be received in Japan, not how requested he is right now. My point was that, based on that chart, I'd say he would be fairly well received, even if not as requested as in the west.
Yeah, that's understandable on it's own. Thing is, the Xbox never really settled down in Japan. I'm sure there's people who'd be stoked with him over in Japan, but if we're going for the most satisfactory duo period, I feel like MC would need an earth-shaker for Japan to balance him out. Crash is decently popular over there, but he doesn't quite hit the same level for them. That's why I think them as the final two wouldn't fulfill the most well-received duo, as the largest chunk of their popularity comes from the West.
I don't find it that weird. Open world games have immense world wide appeal.(I still find it weird that Grand Theft Auto V is somehow doing better than Crash Bandicoot right now in Japan.)
Grand Theft Auto V Had The Best Debut Of Any GTA In Japan
Japanese sales tracker Media Create reports that GTAV sold through 85.71% of its shipment on the PlayStation 3 and 92.57% of its shipment on Xbox 360 in its first week.GTA V debut coincides with weekly PS4 sales quadrupling in Japan
That Dragon Quest Metal Slime console surely helped While retailers in some countries have already committed to taking Grand Theft...
Man if only Nintendo still took ideas from this list, then my hope in Sgt. Cortez taking the place of James Bond would be invigorated again. I think the Monster Hunter rise protagonist and Crash Bandicoot are our last characters. Forgive me if I say this like a broken record.I still believe Crash is more likely than anyone purely based on his past immense success. He was even considered for Melee before it even had a name.
In that poll he had one more vote than Sonic and Mega Man.If there was a Smash 2 Poll
Okay, so this is really old but I haven’t been able to find a good comprehensive translation of the Sakurai’s column back when Smash 64 came out. It’s really interesting to see ho…
mhm, it's just most of their games are digital only so puyo puyo tetris 2 is really all we can measure from the franchise, but it's definitely up there.
It depends on how you look at it. With GTA, you could argue there is crossover considering just how many people own it. Either people who already know the characters or series buy the character in Smash, or they may be interested in being one of the few people who hasn't bought it yet. If this coincides with a Switch port it could be a big cross-promotion. This would be a Cloud Strife situation.
I think if we get a MH rep, it might not be the dude Rise. I can see Nintendo and Sakurai developing an in-house character that isn't out yet but I would never imagine Sakurai doing so for another company. If Rise does get a spirit event or we get the MH Mii Costumes before a fighter, I don't think we'd see any more MH. My prediction would shift to someone like Arle from PuyoPuyo at that point.
crash 4's launch week was 10,437 in Japan, it disappeared soon after. he's irrelevant there.
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this too, any franchise that doesn't release on the switch basically immediately becomes irrelevant in Japan.
I think that this will probably translate to a renasaince of Konami Ips, being done by studios that want to do stuff with teh IPs and have teh talents.. and probably konami will take a hands off approach, which is cool considering thast the way konami greates hits were done. this obviously will degenerate in some like 6 or seven years into bad sequels, and people just doing stuff because its profitable, but i honestly think that the first row of reboots, reimagings or sequels will be very healthy and good.
It won't be big enough until we can tell stories of how Shulk's VA memed his character into stardom by saying he would strip if he was in the top three of the popularity poll
That was Lloyd, not Shulk. Not even the right companyIt won't be big enough until we can tell stories of how Shulk's VA memed his character into stardom by saying he would strip if he was in the top three of the popularity poll
I still can't get over that...
That's the joke. Xenoblade won't be bigger than Tales until it repeats that occurrence.
We already have that problem to some extent with
. Minecraft is one of the few games with truly global popularity, but if someone is intrigued by his Smash appearance and doesn't have a Nintendo console already (s)he needs:
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, off-topic, but a bigger gun you might need:
Same would apply to DFO by the way it straight up has 600 Million Players over in South East Asia.We already have that problem to some extent with
- A Switch.
- Smash Bros.
- FP2 or Steve's Pack.
The three combined cost a pretty penny for a machine that's strictly for entertainment. And as such we can't expect every person worldwide who play Minecraft (it's F2P in China, so that's why there are 400 million accounts just from that country alone in addition to the 200 million paid units elsewhere) to suddenly decide that buying everything needed is worth it.
But thing is, Nintendo doesn't need to convince everyone who plays Minecraft, GTA, LoL or what have you to buy the entire package. As long as the inclusion itself helps to drive things for Nintendo (which I'm pretty sure Steve did since he crashed Twitter) Nintendo will be in a good spot.
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...On a console that isn't selling well in Japan? I think that hardly translates to him being irrelevant.
I don't know. Nintendo seems to be working very closely with Capcom with Monster Hunter Rise, giving me the same vibes as Bayonetta. ARMS, Final Fantasy 7 and Xenoblade 2 have just had a boost in content in Smash, most likely stemming from Nintendo not being satisfied with what they had currently had for those series so if they're continuing that trend then more Monster Hunter content is next with the Rise protagonist and would go perfectly with the Smash 4 Mii costumes.
that's not the point, even on switch it won't do much better, a long time go anything could do 1 mil in japan, Metroid did, DYnasty warriors did, even TWNIBEE did. it wasn't much of an achievement, now MEtroid barely does anything in Japan and twinbee is dead not to mention DYnasty warriors decline. same thing happened to crash as those three, the interest isn't there anymore.
Honestly, that's kinda why I doubt them. There's only three characters across both DLC packs that really made sense by our standards; Byleth, Steve, and Pyra. Maybe Hero too, but they had the Japan-centric issue to content with. Smash usually doesn't go for the obvious choices, and I'm hesitant to board any ships for really popular predictions.
Yeah, I doubt the Monster Hunter Team would work on adding a Hunter to Smash unless it's a Journey's Hunter where Rathalos does most of the work. Because after Infinite flopped, I simply can't see the Hunter getting into another Fighting Game for at least another Decade at least. Because the Monster Hunter Devs already don't like the idea too much, even refusing the Hunter getting into MvC3, and I think the One Time the Hunters were let into a Fighting Game being a Total Flop probably made their stance on the Matter even more severe. Yeah I'm sorry Monster Hunter ain't happening this game it's not your fault lmao.
Believe me, I want you to be right. I don't dislike Monster Hunter at all, but my Capcom choice is easily Phoenix. I just hope we get a Capcom rep at all.
Same Here as you can tell by my rant lmao.
Pyra really doesn’t count as people expected Rex to be the main XC2 character with Pyra tagging along.
It's not just Rise. Monster Hunter's shot up to become one of Capcom's big breadwinners, to the point that World is their best-selling game of all time. Plus, there's been a pattern of going back to old deals and missed chances, and MH might fit that criteria, given the content it already has and the oddly-titled songs. Rise being a big thing Nintendo's pushing is just the cherry on top.
I was mainly referring to XC2 itself. I suppose it would be more accurate to say they were semi-safe; The game itself has a lot going for it and they're fairly popular by extension of Rex's requests and their team status, but Pyra on her own was pretty unexpected.
I think there's also the fact that most of FP2 seems to be kinda the "redemption pack".
I'm under the assumption that Sony would shoot down Nintendo on everyone except an overly realistic Abby.I've wondered for a while now why people assume Sony wouldn't allow any of their characters in Smash. Sure, it hasn't happened yet, but if Nintendo came to them asking for Aloy or Kratos or something, is there real precedent suggesting Sony would shoot them down? Or does everyone just assume they're as protective of their IP as Nintendo is? Because frankly, that's pretty dang hard to do
I just think it's more the lack of interest on Nintendo's part.I've wondered for a while now why people assume Sony wouldn't allow any of their characters in Smash. Sure, it hasn't happened yet, but if Nintendo came to them asking for Aloy or Kratos or something, is there real precedent suggesting Sony would shoot them down? Or does everyone just assume they're as protective of their IP as Nintendo is? Because frankly, that's pretty dang hard to do
