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Crash? 0.1% Chance 85% Want
It's not that Crash doesn't have any meaningful history with Nintendo. It's not that he hasn't had a game on home consoles for nearly eight years. Neither of those points have any relevance when PAC-MAN is part of the Smash roster.
No, do you want to know the damning factoid that ruins Crash's chances of being in Smash? See, Activision don't publish their own games in Japan. Do you want to know who does?
Square Enix.
Even if the entire dev team wanted Crash to join the game, there are plenty more Square Enix characters that Japanese gamers would rather see join the roster, and admitting Crash over any of them would be a stinking middle finger to the entire nation.
That hypothetical occurrence does not even take into account the fact that Square is infamously opposed to letting anyone else handle their babies, especially the adopted ones. That's too many hurdles for Nintendo to jump through when they could just induct Baby Rosalina with a tenth of the hassle.
Bomberman? Abstaining
Predictions? Vaati 2.3%, Tails 8.3%
Nominations? 1x Rerate Spyro, 4x Rerate Wolf
It's not that Crash doesn't have any meaningful history with Nintendo. It's not that he hasn't had a game on home consoles for nearly eight years. Neither of those points have any relevance when PAC-MAN is part of the Smash roster.
No, do you want to know the damning factoid that ruins Crash's chances of being in Smash? See, Activision don't publish their own games in Japan. Do you want to know who does?
Square Enix.
Even if the entire dev team wanted Crash to join the game, there are plenty more Square Enix characters that Japanese gamers would rather see join the roster, and admitting Crash over any of them would be a stinking middle finger to the entire nation.
That hypothetical occurrence does not even take into account the fact that Square is infamously opposed to letting anyone else handle their babies, especially the adopted ones. That's too many hurdles for Nintendo to jump through when they could just induct Baby Rosalina with a tenth of the hassle.
Bomberman? Abstaining
Predictions? Vaati 2.3%, Tails 8.3%
Nominations? 1x Rerate Spyro, 4x Rerate Wolf