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Isn't sales in Japan like 3.8 million? Western sales surely dwarf that number, so I don't know why they have to worry so much about Japanese interest when it comes to western characters. Why worry about smaller fanbase, but not fot western one? Why not teach Japanese fanbase about certain western franchise?
I don't think the character was included for promotional reasons, but the fact that the most popular/seminal version(s) of Hero play backseat to the most recent version may indicate that the default was made the default at the behest of a promotion-based agenda.
Likely because the game is made in Japan with Japanese sensibilities and tastes in mind. I think it was mentioned they have a bit of a language barrier to overcome when dealing with Western companies, which can be tricky when getting everyone to properly convey their messages to one another.
There is a lot of reasons why we have gotten way more Japanese characters, then just sales.
Square was basically the only one of the 4 third parties to capitalize on their character getting into Smash now that I think about it.
SNK games on the E-Shop went on sale for a bit I think. But other than that, yeah, no much in the way of "shilling".
I'd probably say Reimu Hakurei. Runner-up would be Pyra/Mythra alongside Rex or 2B. But I suppose if I were to follow the trend and list my most wanted female characters for Ultimate:
Sakurai's major goal when it comes to Smash Bros is to use it to promote Japanese games throughout the entire world. That's why characters like Rayman and Assassin's Creed get sideline in Smash, Rayman is super niche in Japan so they won't make him playable. If the Japanese audience aren't on board with the character then they won't be DLC since they're charging for them, only base game roster can have characters that don't appeal to the Japanese audience like Little Mac and Ridley.
Really based list, ngl.
Miku is sort of in an interesting place when it comes to who owns her. The vocal software and her likeness is owned by Crypton Media, while her videogames are owned by Sega. Music is a licensing labyrinth divided across multiple entities. Here's the copyright info for the Project Diva games.
Negotiating for the character itself would require Nintendo to directly negotiate with Crypton. However, should elements from Project Diva be implemented into Smash, Nintendo would also have to go through Sega as well.
That's a really interesting summary. Thanks.
You missed out Cuphead/Undertale promotions immediately after their mii costumes were announced and Persona scramble being linked to smash for additional bonuses. Smash is a huge advertising tool, its all about the extent to which its being utilized to.
They still worked with westerners.. otherwise, how else would they have sold their games? Who run Nintendo US?
Bethesda and Microsoft have supported Nintendo. For Bethesda, Skyrim and Doom... Skyrim sold well on Switch. Hell, it even inspired Zelda: BOTW. Microsoft publishes Minecraft, Ori and Cuphead on Switch. I don't know what's deal with being more familar when Sakurai himself played plenty of western games.
Pretty sure this was so that they had to pay less royalties, if you have to give a say, 5% cut of sales of the fighters pass and individual Hero sales or 5% cut of every sale the game made, which one would give you, the company making the game, more money?
Not on the development side they don't. Sakurai flat out said Grant Kirkhope was the first non-Japanese composer he ever worked with and it was hard because of the language barrier. This implies the main Smash team is relatively isolated as far as western input is concerned and if they're getting any directly, it's from bilingual people which may or may not include actual developers.
I'm pretty sure most third-parties opt for DLC these days because receiving a backend of every piecemeal purchase is more lucrative than the deal they receive by being in base, which is more likely a flat rate than an ongoing cut. I really doubt Nintendo has to force the third-parties to be DLC.
JASRAC's more demanding for that iirc, it's a case like Cloud where there's more than one group to give royalties
I'm not entirely sure why you are looking at a 15 year old feets
First of all dont project yourself onto me
Second of all the classic stripped sonic shoe design is the epitome of shoe design. Arle current design has shoes that were a clear subtle reference to Sonic. So in my theory it is in fact the same shoe brand in Sega Lore.
Wait, what happened with Sakurai & Taro?
Activision support is actually really good for the Switch, all of their major series besides Call of Duty, Starcraft & Warcraft are on it. The latter two are PC only anyway.
Just that the timing of when they first met is after when the second Fighter's Pass was decided:
How heavily that affects 2B's chances is a question of whether or not Sakurai would personally meet with Taro before putting 2B in. I don't think he'd have to since Nintendo is picking the characters, but I could potentially see him wanting to do that, so I'm still kind of gathering my thoughts on what her chances are. I'd love to see her join though
tomorrow
the right man in the wrong game can make all the di-ff-erence in the world?
