Nintendo and competitive Smash.

[CastletonSnob]

What do you think of Nintendo's decision to not support the competitive Smash scene? I've heard Nintendo has actively tried to sabotage Smash's success. How have they done that?

 

[FazDude]

They've mainly been doing stuff like shutting down major tourneys such as the Big House/Riptide for using modded copies of Melee/Brawl and pulling Smash from EVO. There's probably more examples of them doing similar things, but those are the three that stand out to me.

I don't think it's Nintendo being against the competitve scene and moreso "we don't want anybody doing anything with our games without our consent and without following our guidelines". Y'know, classic Nintendo.

 

[Wario Wario Wario]

I feel the problem isn't "Nintendo doesn't support the competitive scene" as much as "Nintendo pretends to support the competitive scene" - something that you can see both in marketing and the games themselves with small gestures like E3 tournaments and GC Adapters or Omega Forms and Shrödinger's Wavedash respectively. when they never actually go the full mile to actually make a competitive friendly game - and I don't mean that in the "where's wavedashing" sense but rather the sense of unbalanced gameplay, poor moveset design that treats competitive play as an afterthought behind a nostalgic trailer, and - of course - the bad prize pools