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I think the situation is summed up better by TV Tropes here:
This is a very strange way to say the OC made for the VS games that's been in every single game, Morrigan Aensland. Still waiting on Darkstalkers not being dead Ono
People weren't expecting any first-party character to get in the first pass, which is why Byleth was a breath of fresh air in that regard.
Weird way to think to be honest lol.
To be honest, I don't think Three Houses being a massive success really had much to do with it considering that Byleth was planned to be in long before 3H even saw release.
I heard nothing, Nintendo is kind of like very silent in their promotionnal stuff lately. Thet bomb drop their stuff out of nowhere reccently.
To be fair for Astral Chain like I'd say previously on this topic, Akira Howard would make for an awesome character. His/her moveset would be bonkers. And on the department of dual character we would have a Badass one compared to Duck Hunt Duo, Banjo-Kazooie and the Ice Climbers.
There's no indication that Nintendo intends to host any proper Directs for the foreseeable future. They've come to rely entirely on Twitter announcements in a post COVID-19 lock-down world and tons of reliable insiders have echoed the sentiment that we should not expect formal Directs for some time, and maybe even shouldn't really expect that many brand new game announcements in the first place. Couple that with the ongoing protests in the US that Nintendo is also showing solidarity with and responding to with active measures of support, and there's a good chance we may get ultimately very little news out of June period. E3 originally being next week basically has no bearing on the current situation given how much is changed and what the timing of everything means.
Wouldn't mean much neccessarily. Amaterasu's in Dota 2 as a courier (ferries items bought from shops to the player character - starts off grounded, can be upgraded to flying). And several SNK characters - including Iori - are skins in (the aptly named) Mobile Legends. Neither of these examples have anything to do with Smash.
In this case it's worth pointing out that ARMS sold in the neighborhood of 2 million - but didn't have the long shelf life. Nintendo might've looked at this and concluded that "ARMS has potential, it just needs more solid support and interest a la Splatoon. A Smash character can help with that".
Those two are the only reasons I desperately hope Nintendo decides to do either additional fighters or a Volume 3. Astral Chain missing the boat seems like such a shame when it's clearly become a successful title that Nintendo and Platinum will build on, and Ring Fit honestly seems like its easily one of the Switch's generation defining new IPs that manages to successfully achieve a proper exercise peripheral base concept with a solid game underneath that Nintendo has seemingly been working towards for years.
But isn't the main failure of Wonderful 101 mostly related to the fact that the WiiU flopped as well? You can't make games as successfully if fewer people have the console to play it. I'm curious to see how the remake does now that it'll be within the grasp of ~50 million people, instead of just ~13 million for the WiiU.
The Wonderful 101 released in 2013 when Nintendo was still trying to push the Wii U and did atrociously even by the Wii U standards. Platinum Games joked about how poorly it did, and even for the sometimes niche Platinum Games releases that tend to struggle to turn profits of any sizable caliber, the game was still more niche and divisive than most of those other efforts and probably led to one of Platinum's biggest bombs of their career. Sure, they released a lot of junk to pay the bills such as The Legend of Korra and that TMNT game, plus the rushed Star Fox game, but this was a pet project they got to fully commit to that just didn't even make a dent.
Enter the Gungeon Spirit event confirmed.
Isn’t it something like 10pm in Japan now? And even then, in the morning it’ll be Saturday over there, we never get announcements during the weekend. Next week is a new chance.
There was an ARMS image leak??
Still though, Platinum did self-publish the remaster on the Switch, PS4 and Steam. There's at least some internal interest in the game - even if it bombed originally. Sure, the KickStarter was used partly to judge how much interest there was externally in the game. But the important part's that Platinum were willing to develop and publish a port / remaster of a game that didn't do well originally.
The discount is actually 1 or 2 bucks off buying each separately, so you’d still be partly paying for pack 5, but that still makes sense I guess.
The only ARMS leak I know of was debunked by the fact that Spring Man wasn't on the bass roster.
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Elma and Octoling, the latter being a presence in current Nintendo and the former being a tie in promotion (Xeno X DE? Xeno X 2?)
They could always just add onto it.
I'd keep an eye on Rex. Like it or not, after getting a Three Houses and ARMS character as DLC, a Xenoblade Chronicles 2 character seems more than a little likely to me. While I wouldn't call him super likely, I don't see why people act like it became completely irrelevant considering it's released after ARMS.
