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Money. The South East Asian Markets are a Market of Gamers that Nintendo would definitely want to get into, and I think if Nintendo had a choice between Falcom and Riot for an example, Nintendo would go with Riot. Why? Because it would make Nintendo the most Money overall. Way more than a Falcom Character would, unfortunately. Also Hayabusa is probably in which is another blow to Falcom's Chances BYE!
You know there are 4 characters left right? League and/or Koei getting a rep does not mean Falcom can't
#SmashUltimate Fighters Pass Volume 2 is selling well according to Nintendo 💰
— Toad’s Nintendo News (@MailToadINTEL) November 8, 2020
This could be great news for those who want a third Fighters Pass.https://t.co/w0Ll99ibb5
I would be surprised if he is. With all the doom and gloom surrounding Disney it's hard to believe that they'd go through all that for just the costume.
Man, remember when Venus reported that physical vol 2 cards were pulled in japanese stores due to "poor sales"?
Well technically yes, Hiroyuki Sawano composed X’s music. But he doesn’t have any strict stipulations or anything, they used Uncontrollable and Wir Fliegen in the Xenoblade 2 expansion pass with Elma
I’d say yes tbh
Please do so he’ll be out
It's probably the reason then. Seems to be the reason for a lot of odd music choices like for Rhythm Heaven, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and Minecraft. Composers owning the rights just seems to either cause problems or dissuade Nintendo from adding their music due to the cost or something.
Let's be real here. Steve is a way bigger draw for people than any ARMS character ever was. It probably wouldn't surprise me if CP7 by itself oversold CP6.
Would you say it also outsold FP2 (Hero) and/or FP3 (Banjo) as well?
Well considering that ARMS is a flash in the pan that is made fun of by literally every other fighting game player and Minecraft is a game that was so influential it's now used in education...
Very possible that it did. Hero does have a status of an Icon... in Japan.
Probably, although Hero and BK had the benefit of being released over a year prior to Steve, so if CP7 hasn't reached it yet, it'll probably outsell both of them in due time.
I dunno about that one. Sakurai and Nintendo usually aim for Japanese developers over western ones. It’s pretty likely they’d choose Japanese Falcom over U. S.(?) based Riot.
Not if Esam keeps her as a secondary.
I only used Riot as an example, so if they wanted to prioritize a Japanese Character in this category, Neople, the owners of Dungeon Fighter Online does most of their business in Japan, so they could easily get prioritized due to the Playerbase ALONE!
Who is that character you keep posting that pic of?
The Creator Class, from Dungeon Fighter Online. They're cute, popular in certain parts of the World, Japan included, and would be extremely unique in Smash.
You know, we have a feature for that.
While I'm sure Steve is selling a lot, preeety sure that one info was outed as a filthy lie made to troll smash fans (iirc lots of similar baits were being spread by a certain crowd and they were all lies turned out). No proof, no confirmation, no source, no backing from any japanese, just confirmation bias by people that "want to believe" something they hate is dying. I understand people falled for it back then because no one wants to source or research anything and just takes anything at face value, but nowadays? May as well think the yellow and purple chairs means Skull Kid was coming, Sakurai just had to delay him into DLC.
We never really had any obscure characters so far.
I'm pretty optimistic, but Smash is one big unknown variable until the character is actually revealed. More than anything I'm just trying to get people on board with the series.
That sales data only goes up to September. Steve hadn't even been announced by the cutoff point.
depends how literally you take obscure because it could be relative. I'd put Terry as a baseline for other "obscure" characters at the moment. Though at this point most of the discussed characters that aren't around this baseline are huge, or even ambitious additions, such as Crash and Master Chief.
Well I mean relative to a Steve or Sonic. Everyone knows who they are, and even less objectively famous characters like a Crash Bandicoot or a Sora could be the kind of fighters that could sell (future?) passes and thus mean less pressure or less well known fighters like a Geno or Isaac to sell the whole deal to customers.
They track sales for everything. Whether they tell us or not is a different story.
Well, you gotta think, digital copies of DLC is going to sell better anyways because it’s DLC. That’s without even taking into account we’re in the middle of a pandemic. And even THEN people usually don’t dip in early on Season Passes. Because they don’t know if they’ll be worth it.
Yeah, I feel as though Hiroyuki Sawano's music would be very expensive, especially because he's the guy behind Attack on Titan and Kill la Kill's soundtrack (And you can easily tell that listening to Xenoblade X's music). With how those series broke into the mainstream and started the new anime fanbase and generation, I can imagine he's now one of the most famous music composers in Japan and he won't give his music for a cheap price.
Doesn't look like it. Think the guy who mentioned it just threw it out there unprompted.
