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For anyone interested downloads still exist so if you think you might ever be interested it like most fan projects it would be best to pick it up now while it's only a few clicks away. After missing the boat on AM2R initially I know I'll never make that mistake ever again
Sorry if you listed it before, you probably have, but what are the evidence for Crash aside the supposed leaked Activision docs that mentioned Smash?
Actually, only the binary (exe) is going away, because it has assets that belong to Nintendo; The decompiled project itself is 100% legal and it's been around for a while. There's even some decompilation projects for other games like Ocarina of Time and Metroid Prime: the thing is that you must build the binary, providing the copy that you have of the game as a input, so it can be played on PC. Also, they are not related or using any code from that source leak for that exact reason.
They would do this no matter what. This doesn¨t confirm anything
A very similar timeline to Banjo, honestly.
Hold up, can we go back for a second on this one?
Overwatch 2 was announced at Blizzcon in November (11/1), and they did announce it was coming to all consoles, so how was it "leaked" a month later? Also all this Overwatch talk is still tied to Blizzard, Activision's sister company, but I don't see what it has to do with Crash/Activision to begin with... or even Geno for that matter; we're wildly off topic, lol.
I know Overwatch 2 was leaked early but I didn't remember which month. I guess it was leaked in September then. The point of bringing this up is that Blizzard/Activision is godawful at keeping secrets and something like Crash being in Smash leaking would honestly just be par the course.
All these stuff is something to consider with Crash I agree. I do wonder though why Activison doesn't just use Leakbait, like Microsoft did. They do own other characters afterall. Is Crash the only character from Activision being heard?
Something that's been bugging me is the fact that you think Crash is happening sooner than later which, by all accounts, doesn't really make sense based on the patterns we've already seen with DLC. He's from a brand new third-party, and a western one at that, so wouldn't it make logical sense he'd take longer to negotiate for than characters like Geno, Lloyd, or Dante?
Originally I did and my prediction for Crash was 9 or 10 until RARE confirmed back in January that Banjo really was rolled out in about a year's time between E3 2018 and E3 2019. Based on past talks, this honestly makes sense because E3 is one of the rare times of the year that Japanese and Western developers can conveniently meet with each other because they're all in the same place. This said, places like GDC, E3, and the VGAs are times when Western and Japanese developers are literally forced to be in the same room together so if big plans were going to be pitched or kicked off, those are kind of the ideal places to hit the ground running because meeting is kind of a pain in the ass the rest of the year.
Gotcha gotcha, just making sure, though I still don't think Blizzard is really relevant, unless we're suddenly gonna get an OW rep, which I really doubt.
Not to mention Crono is also a dead character and has Sword Stigma in a world after Sakurai has admitted he thinks we've got too many swordsmen. If anything, he'd make for a sweet costume though. Sephiroth also has Sword Stigma and he'd be among the very few 3rd parties to double-up on a franchise (the only two I can immediately remember being Street Fighter and Castlevania). I could see Square wanting to do their usual circlejerk, but I could also see him ending up as a costume to promote FF7R as opposed to a fully playable character.
Likely intended to be an E3 reveal alongside Geno, but I wouldn't be surprised if Corona pushes back non-Japanese characters if they weren't at least shown to the publishers and whatnot.
For sure, though with corona and having Sakurai admit that he can't meet with some publishers (likely ones outside of Japan), I won't be surprised if we get nearly all the Japanese company reps first, and any/all Western characters much later.
Geno Beams In!
What if they had to meet with Activision though before finalizing it? If it's a "must be done in person" kind of thing, even if everything is mostly done, they might require the publisher to sign off on it, which would cause delays.
Nintendo President and CEO Shuntaro Furukawa says that, although the Chinese factory suspended shipments of Nintendo Switches in February, Japan faced delays in putting new units on shelves, however, the impact on overall business has been minor so far.
— Robert Sephazon (@Sephazon) May 8, 2020
He mentions there are other titles they plan to release this year in addition to those already announced. However, it may be difficult to finish development during the current situation, as employees are working from home. Their forecast assumes they will release as planned.
— Robert Sephazon (@Sephazon) May 8, 2020
A lot of insiders on resetera including imran khan and nate drake kept saying there was some Mario related event planned for April. While 2020 would've always started off like ****, it doesn't seem like the whole year was always intended to be ****
Slow doesn't mean bad, just means we were going to get less than something like 2019, or at the very least more smaller projects/remakes and relying more on third party stuff than usual. The idea that Nintendo was planning some kind of live Mario event for April doesn't sound like Nintendo at all to be honest but I still entertain the idea, and again, the fact that it was cancelled doesn't mean the games themselves were pushed back, it was cancelled because they can't do any kind of large live event.
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At this point I think Nintendo is just waiting for a point in time where 2020 isn't a total **** show for most of the world. Yeah, Corona is still dominating everything but it's slowly getting to the point that a lot of people are getting numb to it and it's easier to focus on other things. Obviously, this is probably going to carry into 2021 but things can't stay long jammed forever and especially companies are desperate for workarounds.
That has only really happened with Banjo and Byleth, which were the return of old Capcom costumes, the sloppy seconds of what ever isn't a company's most popular character or IP, or special Mii Costumes with songs. Both were either first-party or very close to Nintendo. So I think Mallow will obviously come with Geno and Cacodemon will be with either the ARMS rep or Doomguy/what ever Western rep we get.
This is part of Power of Six theory and why I think it heavily suggests Nintendo and Microsoft costumes are coming later. My theory about Byleth not getting Nintendo costumes because Nintendo was likely getting a pack in Season 2 turned out to be true and yet another reason why I'm sticking to my Microsoft pack prediction. The missing Smash 4 costumes belong to Namco, Capcom, and Square so that potentially explains 5 of the 6 future packs.
Those are the kinds of updates they always drop on twitter though. Announcing some Mario Maker DLC in a tweet is one thing, announcing an entirely new game through a tweet isn't really something Nintendo does, and I really don't get why people keep pushing it. There's nothing stopping them from just doing something like a mini-direct again, it generates a lot more buzz and lets them promote third party stuff as well.
Just a reminder to everyone because I totally forgot myself and just looked it up: SMM2 2.0 was not announced in the September direct last year, and was also shadowdrop-announced 3 days before launch on Twitter and YouTube (3.0 was shadowdropped 2 days before launch). While there was talk that the 3.0 update was intended to be bigger (and not come yet), what we got was still a shadowdrop announcement and released in the same way as 2.0, which was released in the first week of December before Corona was a thing (at least outside of China).
So excluding potential bonuses (that aren't in FP2 to begin with), you're thinking 2x Nintendo (ARMS and Rex? Wah? Isaac? BWD? Zelda Rep? Pokemon?), and 1x of Namco (Lloyd? Heihachi?), Capcom (Dante?), Square (Geno), and Microsoft (Steve? MC?)? Pretty good lineup overall if that's what they end up doing.
I dunno man, compare the additions in 2.0 to 3.0 and it looks like the latter could have been split into at least three more updates. I mean the Koopalings alone could have been a single update.
Oh, yeah, don't get me wrong, 3.0 is way bigger than 2.0, but 2.0 was puny as hell. It's like saying a kitten is bigger than a mouse, but in the grand scheme of things, a kitten is still very small. 3.0 just seems big because of how tiny 2.0 was, but it didn't add a new style or anything; course maker seems big at first, but it's not really.
mate. Super Mario 3D World is literally a 3D game.
Sorry should have been more specific: Seeing a style that lets you move around in 3D, as that was how I interpreted their want of SM64.
As I've said before, I really like "Geno Gives It A Whirl!".
We got Altair, Rabbits and Cuphead with Byleth
It makes no sense that Nintendo would waste time, money, and assets dealing with Square over an updated costume when they could just port over the old one getting the same amount of money. A Geno costume but with a face is not gonna make that much of a difference since the fans know he got costumed for the second time.
