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Exactly. Returning to what I have said in one of my previous posts about all the possibilities about the Square Enix rep that Vergeben mentioned, Dragon Quest having a character is very unlikely, especially that it would be very difficult to get the rights to Chrono and a DQ character when you already have the rights to Geno
Yes, characters, if that wasn't obvious...
Spoogy! It's nice seeing you outside of the Mimique server.
Yeah, sometimes I come back here. I'm sure I'll get bored and disappear again. As for this, yeah, I've mostly been seeing what everyone else said and I'm sure I aped other peoples good points.
If we are talking about Bias, Nintendo would more likely be bias to their own games than to other companies as this is how it usually goes.
Worth noting that Nintendo has definitely promoted third party games through Smash, like Bayonetta 2 in Smash 4 and Metal Gear Solid 4 in Brawl.
Sakurai selected those characters, not Nintendo. If you look games Nintendo's made, they almost never add content from other game companies and if its not Nintendo, its something unrelated to games. To give you an idea, in their games they have more crossovers with Hello Kitty than Dragon Quest. My point is Nintendo will likely prioritize their own stuff first.
I agree. That's why its likely a good thing for Geno that he is related to Mario's history and Nintendo already has the rights to at least SHOW him in the game, so it shouldn't be much harder to make him playable. He at least has these advantages.
True, but they practically own Bayonetta now. And I would say the MGS4 stuff was less promoting on Nintendo's part and more Kojima being Kojima with his hinting and foreshadowing. Also, Snake only ever got in because Sakurai and Kojima were buds and not because of marketing reasons.
He ****ing made it. He's finally, and officially, a Nintendo all-star.
It's GameXplain that's getting my hopes up for Geno, which is funny, considering I don't like them at all. Jon has literally been getting everything on-point lately and I'm more than certain that he has sources and is trying to pretend like he's just guessing stuff.
That's true, indeed. Jon has got some interesting info, considering that he got Ridley right before E3, Simon Belmont, King K. Rool before the 8.8.2018 Smash Direct, and said Isabelle would be her OWN unique newcomer instead of an echo fighter. He has been talkative about Geno lately, which really makes me believe that Geno may be our next Square rep for DLC; Jon also guessed the correct FF titles coming to the Switch, so he's got some sources that involve Square, as well, and Geno IS Square's property. This one's a little off-topic but still backs up the evidence, and I believe it was Jon who always did this, but he knew exactly when the 8.8.2018 and 11.1.2018 Smash Directs were going to happen. In case he got into trouble with Nintendo, Jon always posted a picture of Otters on his Twitter whenever a Direct was coming up in a few days, and even before the 11.1.2018 Direct was announced, he posted another one and it was announced a little later that a Smash Direct would be held on November 1, 2018. This makes me believe that he's got some sources, too, and if he keeps talking about Geno, then he might actually be coming for DLC.
I feel like this point should be brought up way more often. Top 20 in Virtual Console twice is a big deal.
To be honest, when I found out about the Wooly world port I turned to my friend and said "How much do you wanna bet Epic Yarn is next?" I don't think that was all that big of a prediction compared to Jon's calling of the Final Fantasy games. That was where I started to suspect him of knowing more than he let on.
Has Jon just been talking about Geno on the GameExplain videos or does he post stuff on Twitter? Also, when he was predicting Ridley, Simon etc. Did he say with certainty that they'd be in, or just that he thought they'd be in?
Before the SNES Classic, it was recorded that Super Mario RPG sold a total of 7.42 million sales. If we're counting the SNES Classic with these sales BECAUSE they include Super Mario RPG, then that would make Super Mario RPG have a total of over 13.42 million sales. It really makes me laugh when some Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi RPG fans say Super Mario RPG was the Mario RPG that did the "worst". (Yes, people told me that it was a failure of an RPG.) Last time I remembered, the game itself outsold EACH and every M&L + Paper Mario game. The game that got close to Super Mario RPG's sales was Super Paper Mario, which sold a total of over 5 million units. Oh, and I AM a fan of all three Mario RPG franchises, and I can say that Super Mario RPG definitely did the best out of all them and deserves a true sequel, or a remake for the Switch. Paper Jam's sales are only about 300,000+ and Color Splash's sales only sold about 160,000+... This is VERY bad, and it's only been 2-3 years since these two have been released to the public; eventually, the Mario & Luigi RPG series won't have anymore games to remake; it's clear that AlphaDream is running out of ideas. After seeing the M&L RPG series go downhill, ESPECIALLY Paper Mario, this would be the perfect time to revive Super Mario RPG. It's very clear that Super Mario RPG DOES matter to Nintendo.
Yes out of all of them who said Geno has no choice he was the only one to say Geno in one video before a direct and still is saying Geno during the talk of possible DLC characters. Plus he clearly knows stuff or has a source. He did get stuff right about the game before too, not sure about this but i believe he said piana plant once.
Yeah, he's talked about Geno in videos. I'd say a notable one is their DLC picks for characters prediction discussion video where Jon does throw out there he's "predicting" Geno as one of his five picks.
Actually, Alpha Dream was founded with several people who worked on SMRPG and other Square games, including SMRPG director Yoshihiko Maekawa.
Just to add to this, here's a quote from Square-Enix back in 2017: "We base our development resource allocations on the unique attributes of each platform. In particular, Nintendo Switch makes it easier for us to leverage our back catalog of assets and expertise, so we want to be proactive in creating new IP and rebooting past titles for that platform."
Jon has been talking a lot about Geno in a few videos, and even when people doubt him, he still talks about Geno. In one newcomer prediction before the 9.13.2018 Nintendo Direct, Geno and Isabelle were also talked about in that video; he usually goes over characters and stuff in predictions, sometimes in other places, as well. If Jon was talking about Geno before the 9.13.2018 Direct, it makes me get the feeling that he thought he was going to show up due to all the FF titles being announced, and he knew about the FF games, which could've gave him the thought that Geno would be showing up after the FF titles were revealed because Geno is Square's property, after all, and could've been a good time to reveal Geno after the Square Enix presentation; obviously it didn't happen because of Isabelle being revealed to hype us up for the new Animal Crossing... HOWEVER, don't lose hope just yet, BECAUSE Isabelle was also talked about by Jon in the prediction video before the 9.13.2018 Nintendo Direct, which really did give me the feeling that Jon does have some sources.
Nah man, for the Square Enix rep, it has to be Geno
I agree with a lot of things you said. I'm not being biased of anything, but from my perspective, Geno seems as if he's the most likely rep. Remember that Sakurai and the fans have been wanting him for 10-17 years; if Sakurai gets Nintendo on board, then I think Nintendo might be choosing Geno. However, I might be shooting myself in the foot and going a little overboard with that I just said. I have to say this: Geno is a half Square and Nintendo character, I think he would be the most logical sense because he is cheaper than Chrono and an Octopath Traveler character, also considering that Square and Nintendo made Geno together, Square owns them but Nintendo knows Geno and Mallow would be the cheapest third-parties from Square to achieve so easily. Slime would be very expensive and a little weird; DQ XI isn't coming to the Switch for quite sometime, nor is there even an official release date; some say it's late 2018 or mid 2019, and if we're getting the Square character as DLC first, then why would they use Slime to promote the game early? I'd be surprised if Slime did get chosen over Geno.
On first look, you don't think of all of the intricacies of getting these characters. If you're getting the character, you also need music, you need to be able to make an Amiibo. You'd need to have permission for all of those things. It really puts it in perspective when you have to ask a third party company for permission for all of these things. When Smash already has rights for Geno, they have nothing for either Sora or DQ. God, I hope this is a sign.
He guessed Shadow as a semi clone. That didn't end up happening.
Really? What video was that?
He said Shadow might happen, but he was only 100% sure about Ken when coming to echo fighters
