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If that's true, I wonder how that'd even go down. You'd think getting Phoenix Wright after Mega Man and Ryu would be a somewhat easy affair. I'd at least assume Bayo also needed Platinum's approval on top of Sega's.
I think that it is fake. I don't think that they would put in Velvet before Lloyd or Yuri and Nakoruru before Terry Bogard.
I can understand Snake and Bomberman due to Konami at the time, and I suppose Sora too.
Amen to that
Konami whoring out to Smash was probably one of their smartest moves in these past few years since the Kojima incident, and as for Joker...his deal seems more of a “Sakurai and crew gonna give him the Kid Icarus/Kirby pampering it needs” kind of thing, so way past creative control and corporate needs (for real though...Persona was treated hella nicely)
Oh, gotcha. Yeah, I find that pretty relatable. The only characters revealed for Smash out of the last 17 characters that have been revealed since Smash 4's DLC cycle are Inkling, Daisy and Isabelle... I hope Nintendo adds more characters that people outside of the really hardcore Smash demographic would be pleased with. Here's to hoping!
That answer could easily lie in one of these possibilities.
I remember Hideki Kamiya was tweeting something like the producer of Ace Attorney was complaing he didn't get a call for Phoenix Wright in smash when they were drinking.
I can understand why you're worried. I'm not a Persona fan at all, so Joker didn't do much for me. And Erdrick, given the rumors and all doesn't either. No one else in particular seems like they're really likely at the moment for me. Well, there's 5 in total, here's to hoping of the characters IS someone you like.
The leak didn't say they are lock. It said only lock is Erdrick. The others are just random rumors the leaker heard.
This is some very interesting information and gives a bigger perspective in the development of the game. So the DLC was decided without Sakurai's will? We knew Nintendo chose the DLC but we didn't know Sakurai himself was out of the dark as well.
The way I interpreted it from his tweet and now this is that Nintendo approached him with a big list of characters and then selected five names off of that list as DLC picks. Which explains why Joker got in, considering he shut down the entire theory of "All DLC picks are going to be ad picks for upcoming Switch games/ports"
If anything it gives me the feeling that Sakurai had nothing to do with the choices and his only role is to see if he can make a fighter out of the pick or not. The big list is something that isn't mentioned anywhere, and Sakurai's tweet and this recent info show that the higher ups of Nintendo are the ones who chose the DLC and no one else.
Probably. Boy I sure hope some of the Nintendo higher-ups are Mega Man and/or Tekken heads.
...I give up. Guess I might as well never bring 'em up again.
Yeah. We still have no concrete clue of anyone past the first guy (putting aside leak rumors that have yet to be proven true).
AKA my dream roster holy ****.
If anything it seems more DLC after the fighters pass is less likely now. From the info that got posted earlier it seems Sakurai isn't a big fan of DLC and he prefers to work on a new game instead.
I still think a total of 3 passes is the most that can be done within the realm of reason (if not two), depending on whether they'll decide to go the full nine yards with those WOL slots. Anything beyond that's overkill.
If Sakurai stays on as the head, then I'd agree with this view. It'd essentially be the same as what happened with Smash 4.
Hasn’t stopped someone like Dark Samus from getting in, though she’s a very rare character
He may have been happy about getting to work on Joker at the least
I think he’d stay with the Smash life, but would be in a Nick Fury role (have others do all the work) so that he can finally learn how to rest (almost typed in “read” as if he was Pit)
I'm curious to know what a season pass or a base game roster would look like without Sakurai's input.
Tbf, was Smash 4's thing also because of the Wii U's looking end and Ultimate's plan? Speaking of which, would Fighter Pass/DLC sales help determine the decision for future DLC? Because they'd have to decide half way through or so if they wanted to keep momentum going.
That's how it looks like. Jeez it seems the speculation for the next game will be quite harsh and full of wondering who will get cut.
And having all these characters back together for their own kind of Endgame was worth it. Though for now we get to enjoy everyone together, next game speculation is gonna be a real doozy not knowing who’ll get cut or changed in some way
Cloud and Erdrick(or whoever the 2nd SE character is) is obviously the most likely to get cut due to the evidence of how difficult it was to get Cloud back in Ultimate.
