Welcome to Smashboards, the world's largest Super Smash Brothers community! Over 250,000 Smash Bros. fans from around the world have come to discuss these great games in over 19 million posts!
You are currently viewing our boards as a visitor. Click here to sign up right now and start on your path in the Smash community!
I think it's a side effect of the current state of things. Ever since companies like Microsoft and Epic Games began flexing their infinite money, people have become convinced that companies like Nintendo and ESPECIALLY Sony have to do SOMETHING to keep up. And yeah, maybe there's some truth to that, but IMO, that won't be an issue until later down the road.
It's not as simple as people vs. IP being the right answer. Of course you need talented people to establish the products as worthwhile, but this IP race that's happening in so many mediums now isn't without reason. It's not Nintendo's strategy, but making yourself the exclusive provider of popular franchises does indeed sway people. Of course Microsoft has to keep the trinity of CoD devs well staffed, but people are going to jump to that platform now just because that will be the place to play CoD going forward. Actually, that is literally Nintendo's whole methodology, and the reason we can't get things like Samus in Fortnite.
I dont think its gonna be a third 7 character
Would he really be playable, though? I mean, it would be more likely than it is now, but rights issues aside Geno is still a really small fish. The things people are saying about Geno having to compete with other Mario reps and such would still hold. At the end of the day it's a hypothetical, but the rights issues are far from the only issue with Geno.
Just a heads up that, if you want to add more details to your post, you should edit it in rather than quoting yourself and double posting.
That and probably that one rumor about Sony wanting to buy Square from one of Eidos' higher-ups. But yeah, Activision and Bungie being bought really got people in a "heat of the moment" scenario where they are just wondering who's going to be bought next, and some people pointing out the values of each company and which one could be bought by a higher money company, hence why Capcom, Sega, Konami and Square tend to be popular look-ats.
Having popular IPs means nothing if:
Its a different situation than the Sonic series though, Sonic has a core cast, at least some of the same characters are there every entry, Final Fantasy is different because the things that stay the same are general concepts like the Goblin or the Mages, rather than specific characters or settings.
Companies don't have to be dying to be acquired. Bethesda and Bungie certainly weren't dying. Sometimes they are just made an offer they can't refuse.
Yes:
I think you're catastrophizing acquisitions. How many acquisitions have been made where companies lose the majority of the workforce they just obtained? I don't think that happened once with Microsoft, not even with Rare, and they've been eating companies like tic-tacs.
Ok, so... the devs find it so difficult to decipher Switch architecture (despite Nintendo granting them proprietary dev tools now that they're subsidiaries) that, instead of familiarizing themselves (as is their job), enough give up that it depletes the whole studio? Seriously? This isn't porting GTA6 to Switch, this would be an experienced dev creating native Switch software with Nintendo's help and tools. Even tiny, relatively inexperienced indies can navigate the system.
wouldn't it make more sense to have a chocobo or a moogle? people love them
Idea: Have it be a Moogle riding on the Chocobo's back, like Duck Hunt. The Moogle casts spells and the Chocobo attacks with kicks/its wings.
A lovely idea here.
Did you seriously imply Shulk, Pyra and Mythra are FF characters?
Sora I understand, but explain the Xenoblade characters please? How are they related to Final Fantasy?
Maybe they are talking about how Xenogears' script was originally submitted to be the story for Final Fantasy VII before it was rejected and became Xenogears? Even then, that's really pushing it.
That's pushing it for sure. It doesn't count in the slightest.
in the same way pac man's a kirby character, sonic's from animal crossing and min min is from fire emblem
wrong. xeno gears and xenoblade are two separate entities, in fact xenoblade wasn’t even gonna have xeno in the title. As noted above it was in fact the story of xenogears that was suggested for FF7 while it was already in development so while the story was recycled it was never at any point going to be a ff game and was in fact made by a different company
I could argue more, because I still disagree.
go ahead and disagree it won’t change the facts
I'm not sure how well this logic holds up; it's like saying that Persona isn't eligible for Smash because it's a spin-off of Shin Megami Tensei, which is a spin-off of Digital Devil Saga: Megami Tensei, which started out as a book series.
Not really the same situation though
There is probably gonna be another Sonic character in the next game, I could see that being Shadow with some music.
Oh yeah, Brawlfan1 does some real good Smash movesets. Heck, he even managed to sell me on the idea of a plant from Plants vs. Zombies being playable without Crazy Dave being there (which, given he's basically the mascot, makes him the go-to PVZ rep).
Would be curious to hear some of your ideas.You know I'll bite. This game sold about 3mil units as an early-lifecycle N64 game and is also credited with being a big part of Nintendo's technological leap into the deep end of 3D gaming. Yet it gets criminally infrequent talk in Smash speculation. So yeah, just another series that people unfairly cast to the wayside as "not Smash material" even when the sales, reception, and historical notability compare favorably with some series already on the roster.
Well right now we're going month-to-month, but they might give us a new slate in the next Direct, which may be next month.
The meter FSes are weak enough as it is...
