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Bruh, you're seriously going to talk smack on the 1st parties when you're have Yuri Lowell on you're most wanted list. Literal no hopers like Slippy Toad and Camilla are more recognizable than him to say nothing on how the likes of Waluigi, Toad/Toadette, half the Pokedex, or even Waddle Dee crush him.
Congratulations. But evolving smash into 3rd party only newcomers kinda misses the point of why Smash was made to begin with. They are guests for a reason. 3rd parties are nice to have, but they are by no means a necessity.
Currently, Nintendo can pretty much re-license any character. If the next game Sakurai isn't in charge or he has some different ideas to take the next game, we will probably see cuts with the 3rd parties and in this case they will be up to Nintendo rather than the other companies.
I'm pretty sure this is a marketing move for Scarlett. They're putting out their stuff to get other people interested before they say "Come to Scarlett for the newest **** in our franchises after getting a taste of it elsewhere".
Fifa is probably the biggest "franchise" that sells disproportionately well in Europe. But obviously not a chance in Smash. I think the issue is that Europe and the US's tastes in games aren't that far apart beyond different sports. But I remember seeing that the majority of Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy's sales came from Europe. But then he is popular world wide.
Layton in particular is a popular request in Europe. I heard Isaac, Rayman and Crash are particularly popular in Europe too.
There already is.
(I should add I'm from the UK and work at a prominent retail chain there, downloaded our top games sales for the decade and the top 5 were just COD and Fifa games, which was exactly what I expected)
The problem with the examples given is that they are loosely based on the material in question, and are otherwise transformative of the subject for which they were based.
Probably Isaac. European and American Tastes aren't that far away from each other with the exception of Geno beeing more of an American pick while golden sun was most popular in European countries.
Inazuma Eleven is pretty popular in europe, but i dont see it getting a rep over Layton. (Altrough i can definitely see it getting over Yokai Watch easily since IE is older)
Kid Icarus isn't actually based on the story of Icarus though. That's just the NA title.
I am French (non-bilingual). Most games in Europe are translated from English. So European culture is therefore mainly based on American culture. Europe doesn't support any specialty and don't really have European preference. If you want to know what real European ballot choices look like, just watch the USA choices. In short, you don't need to look at Europe to make new forecasts
Ubisoft isn't the #1 choice for Europeans. And Bayonetta has never been chosen by Europe.
A Smash without Sakurai would likely play it extremely close to what is in Ultimate.
I think it's selling so well because it's Mario Kart, not because it's a deluxe version of it.
That was... kind of my point really. Even if it's "just a port", it's selling really well because it's Mario Kart. It would likely be the same with Smash, at least hipothetically speaking.
I think if they ported Smash Ultimate to a new system, they'd still have to add something to it/tweak it a bit to make it seem new. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, despite it being a port, has a real battle mode again and allows players to hold 2 items at once again; both of which are major changes from the original.
True. Plus, it's a port of a Wii U game, and we all know how well that system fared in comparison to the Switch. So a lot of people were actually playing MK8 for the first time through the port.
I meant more so for its basis on Greek mythology than anything specifically about Pit himself. Pit himself is more of a hodgepodge of Eros, Icarus, Hermes, and Perseus. Palutena is literally a corruption of Pallas Athena (just substituting Wisdom for Light) and she even retains her hatred for Medusa (just in a more, let's say, family friendly version). Other characters are lifted right from Greek myth as well.Kid Icarus isn't actually based on the story of Icarus though. That's just the NA title.
Also, Icarus is a myth, not a historical figure.
Aw yeah, Steampunk Abe Lincoln for Smash.
now that would be hilarious just to see every smash reactor's face
If this became an actual thing...... Hooh, boy. (Drools immensly). Goodbye, all my money, I'd be worshipping this hypothetical game.
Also Dracula(probably the most famous public domain character) as a boss in WoL to boot.
I guess that would be an important distinction? How transformative is the video game to the character. It's not like Castelvania takes Bram Stoker's Dracula as a core point of it's world building. Functionally the Dracula in Castlevania takes the name from the fictional character but is purposefully at odds with a lot of the book.
It's less that it wouldn't do well, and more that like Fortnite, and a lot of games that pride themselves on being easily playable on a myriad of devices, a fairly large part of the player base would not have disposable income to pay for a full fighters pass. Obviously they might be able to convince a parent or guardian for just Steve, but I think Nintendo is angling for a fighters pass that will get the most people excited to buy the whole thing.
