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I heard that there is only double battles in the Ghost Gym if it’s about base Scarlet and Violet.
That doesn't make any sense.
Even if we get a Ultimate Deluxe there's going to be a Smash 6 eventually even if it's 25 years from now or something.
After this poll is wrapped up, would it be worth having a poll for most popular characters from the top newest IPs? Of course, some series reps are non-negotiable - We're not getting Rayman fighters without the title character, or Doom without Doomguy, so it depends the results. But still, if we see something like Tales of or League of Legends getting strong results, where there's some clear obvious choices but a wide variety of candidates to choose from, it might be worth having a sort of epilogue poll to review who people were thinking of when they voted for that series.
Yeah, at this point, Smash as a series sells way too highly for it to ever end.
I mean, having Mario Kart at launch gives an actual reason to buy the system at launch. No one wanted to buy the system because the marketing was awful and there was **** all on it that actually appealed to people outside of small enthusiast forums. By the time Mario Kart and Smash were out it was way too late because the only other mass appeal game that released post launch was Super Mario 3d World.
This is Game & Wario erasure
The only time Mortal Kombat was a launch title was in the GBA
I mean i think it's not completely impossible that the series eventually "ends", i'm talking about 100+ years from now at absolute minimum as the series might've completely peaked by then and just turn it into live-service like MultiVersus or interest simply vanishes and there's a more popular crossover game that takes it's place, but like eding the series at Ultimate feels waay too early to me, i think Smash as a series still has a lot to explore/offer to justify at very least a Smash 6.
People didn't want the console at launch because they wasn't worthwhile to play. Nothing
That's why they specified mass appeal games.
I really don't think that's a very good idea, considering, you know
Smash ain't 100 percent immune to this already when you count dlc. Sure as hell can't buy the dlc for smash 4 anymore... Which begs the question of if/when the switch eShop might pass on in a similar matter.
Nintendo aren't against continually updating games as time (see: Splatoon, Arms, Animal Crossing). Sometimes it can go well(like in Splatoon 1), sometimes not so well(like... basically all of the Mario sports games lol). I don't think Sakurai would go for that approach though, myself. Just doesn't really seem his style.
If you're only talking about sales numbers here, we can say the same for basically every first-party series that got a game on Switch.
Outside of the Wii, Zelda has almost always been in the top ten in terms of best selling games on Nintendo’s home consoles. Sometimes top 5 such as in the N64 and GameCube (Wind Waker was 4th).
It upsets me because double battles are a lot more fun than singles.
How dare you! the zelda series has been an icon of gaming for decades with many people often including N64 titles among the best ever game lists. many of the series entries are considered among the best games on their consoles. the zelda fandom is huge, I should know I've been listening to them bicker for decades, way bigger than any cult classic fandom. the call it a niche series is not just factually inaccurate but it comes across as wilfully ignorant.
And perhaps it's a testament to the Switch's recipe for success, but the fact that Zelda can put up these kind of numbers and not even be the console's greatest "winner" is pretty wild. Not that it's a competition, but I have been asking myself who got the biggest boost from the Switch overall.
Fortunate circumstance at just the right time is often an underrated factor for many franchises that eventually became so big. I actually think Smash (particularly early on) benefited from the 2D fighting game scene otherwise struggling after the collapse of arcades in the late 90s and before the rise of online netplay in the late 00s. SSB was an unorthodox style series and often only on one console, but it was a sustained and public 2D fighting game in an era where 3D ones had much of the focus and many of the major players had cut back their output or were struggling in their identity. Melee specifically ended up having a shine and credibility that not only had Nintendo fans playing it but also those in the FGC, and the franchise eventually gained so much momentum that even traditional 2D fighters coming back didn't really derail its success.
*Silver. He wasn't that low.
then it wasn’t niche
Same with Twilight Princess Link who is still used when Nintendo wants to use the traditional Link design.
Although the wording of niche makes it seem worse then what actually was before BOTW.
That's true, but I wanna point out AC also soared during the Switch era.
I think the idea is that Pokemon was gold and Mario was silver.
And this is arguably a mistake that the community frequently makes, because niche does not mean obscure in every context.
Man, Star Fox is really in a rough spot. Arguably in a worse spot than Metroid during the Wii U era- Metroid at least wasn't stuck remaking the same game over and over again. Well, I guess at least Star Fox 2 came out, so that's something.
