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As I understand, American Football isn't popular in Japan, or most of the world outside 'Muricuh for that matter.
Wasn't that European Football/Soccer... I thought mainly America liked American Football/Rugby. Then again I may be wrong since I don't watch sport's... ^^;
Even so, you'd think they'd make a lot of money with it even if it was a US-only game. Probably why they wanted an American developer to work on it.
Actually, Nintendo had retro change to a nfl game because they wanted retro to work on "mature" games
I have, but I want an American football game foolYou know, I would want a standalone Charizard if Red gets cut.
Mario American Football huh? How about a big fat no?
Play Mario Strikers damnit.
Not necessarily. GS is dead and Xenoblade is more recent and more successful than the GS franchise. The circumstances for characters now are different now too. There is more room for niche characters to get in. Isaac kinda missed his boat and with hype surrounding "X" Shulk's chances are looking very good.
That's the only football game I would care for.You know, I would want a standalone Charizard if Red gets cut.
Mario American Football huh? How about a big fat no?
Play Mario Strikers damnit.
Technically speaking Golden Sun is not dead. The most recent game in the series left off with a cliffhanger, so it still has leg room to expand further. The problem is that there doesn't seem to be a motivation to expand on it at the moment. Though unlike how some people think here, that is not really a huge loss considering Golden Sun is very uninteresting.Not necessarily. GS is dead and Xenoblade is more recent and more successful than the GS franchise. The circumstances for characters now are different now too. There is more room for niche characters to get in. Isaac kinda missed his boat and with hype surrounding "X" Shulk's chances are looking very good.
Kirby and Fire Emblem are wholly owned by Nintendo.
The companies work for Nintendo, so Nintendo really just needs to go and ask them. It is not like they would decline, it advertises their games.
I thought Kirby was owned by HAL and Fire Emblem was owned by Intelligent Systems.
Actually no, I based it off her Radiant Dawn self.The Michiah one was based on her Awakening redesign....
Oh... You're right.Actually no, I based it off her Radiant Dawn self.
She doesn't wear any pink/purple in Awakening (as far as I know).
Which in turn are completely owned by Nintendo.
That theory is bullsh*t. Second-party characters were included in brawl as assist trophies. If Second Party companies are so difficult to work with, why wouldn't they demmand their characters to be playable?
I thought of it like this, these would be what the normal Mega-Man (original blue color) would look like with these powers.
Because it just simply easier to go for the stuff that is completely owned then ones that are partially owned. It's like the difference between owning a toy and borrowing a toy, you don't need permission and there isn't restrictions for the former. This is further supported by Animal Crossing and Pikmin being apparently the only things after 2000 to have a character worthy on the roster and second party content being scarce in general.
The fact is, second party content and characters still appeared in the form of Assist Trophies. If second-parties were as difficult to work with as you imply, Saki/Isaac/etc. would not have been in the game AT ALL.
Reason why now Isa and Matthew/Adult Isaac will be in the game
Xenoblade was created and developed by Monolith Soft. As said by Habanero (quoted), Monolith is wholly owned by Nintendo, therefore Xenoblade is 100% Nintendo just like Fire Emblem or Kirby.As someone who knows nothing about Xenoblade is it a 2nd party title? I'm assuming its owned by Nintendo but again to be honest I have no idea
Monolith is fully owned by Nintendo as of 2007, so technically Xenoblade is a 1st party game.
In case you haven't noticed, second party content is scarce despite the inclusion. This especially blunt with Golden Sun, which despite being more successful then some of Nintendo's other franchises like Pikmin, got shafted by a lot. A trophy of Issac, an assist trophy of Issac, and a song randomly on Norfair, and that's literally it. Even Magical Starsign got more content then that.shinpichu said:
That's not how corporations and business works. There is actually a ton of legal issues that need to be sorted out before 2nd party characters are added. You're still borrowing IP, even if they work for you, you simply can't go up to them and say, "hey, we're taking your **** since you work for us, you cool with that?"
Yeah, I guess. Thing is, the franchise has little to no light left in it, and honestly it isn't THAT good nor well known. Meanwhile Xenoblade is hailed as the best RPG of this generation in several circles (whether or not I agree with that statement is something else), and is generally more well known than GS was back then among gamers.
It could just be that, at the time, Sakurai didn't feel that there were many second-party series worthy of getting a lot of content. And honestly, I don't blame him: Unlike right now, there were still a number of characters that were almost universally considered deserving that had yet to make it into Smash.
Speaking of Monolith, KOS-MOS is owned my them or by Namco? If Monolith is owned by Ninty and Monolith made KOS-MOS, shouldn't KOS-MOS be owned by Nintendo now? Then again, we've seen Namco use KOS-MOS rather freely so she might just be owned by them after all. I guess Namco bought the rights to the character before the buy out? What's the story on that deal?
I dunno man, it struck me as niche at the time. I heard of it because of a friend and never really bothered to try it. The only time I ever heard GS get brought up was usually during Brawl speculation threads. It never seemed to create much of a buzz imo, and no one I knew despite one friend ever really even heard of it.
1 million copies was just for North America + Japan. It sold even more with European sales included.
And this is the one to give us the character this time
Xenosaga as a whole belongs to Namco, so there for KOS-MOS still belongs to Namco.