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I wish. But I think it's too soon to see FP9 in January as we just got Sephiroth last month. I would put more stock on FP9 being announced or released around the week the next Amiibo wave drops in the end of March since DLC fighters always seem to come out or get announced during the week a Amiibo wave drops.
I kinda think the only exception they’d have to tease FP9 this early is to pull an ARMS and do another guessing game
So true. Imagine if they put in Coco or Dr. Cortex over Crash lmao! I don't see that happening.
Exactly. If im honest if Crash is not the next fighter i don't think he is in. He already took a blow due to him not being at the Game Awards, but i can still see him as the next fighter.
-5 Year Plan......
Well, that might be because of his western origins since Ultimate is the first Smash game where we have really gotten any true western characters from western 3rd party companies like Banjo & Kazooie and Steve. Negotiating for characters from companies outside of Japan is a little more complicated from what I can imagine since Sakurai likes to approach the actual developers themselves before he puts their characters into Smash. The language barrier and being across overseas makes things a little more complicated which is probably why we haven't gotten a true western rep until Ultimate.
Honestly, you could say the same about any other character. A new Sonic rep for example, like Shadow or Eggman. You'd think that one of the biggest gaming franchises of all time, who was once the rival to Nintendo's flagship series, Mario, would have some respetable representation in what is the biggest gaming crossover of all time.
Now that i think about it it's odd that the sonic series does not have a new fighter. I mean remember where we all thought Shadow was going to in SSBU only to be an assist trophy for the 3rd time in a row?
It wouldn't have been so bad if they just revealed he was an assist trophy when Ultimate was revealed. But no, they had to show Knuckles as an assist trophy and even introduce the concept of echo fighters to get our hopes up.
And don't forget the"Leak" you know the one
Unless E3 2021 is digital this time, it's probably not going to happen
More like E3 as a digital event to me, because people staying six feet apart would be hard to do.
Agreed, that's what I am personally betting on more then anything.
Yea, and even if it does go digital I doubt Nintendo would have a Direct given they seem to be moving away from that format. We may get a random trailer drop though.
While I am bias, Crash Bandicoot is probably the one character that would actually shock me if he doesn't make the cut and just like "Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale" would be the most glaring roster omission when it's all said and done considering how much "Star Power" is left out there and is one of the last few big names left that is built/made for a game like Smash.
First off, the COVID numbers have been rough and until vaccination rates go up, don't count on things being normal until August at least.
Oh I'm not denying that. I do think COVID is still a thing, but I don't think its as bad as it was last year, at least as of now.
It makes no sense why they decided to merge Vicarious Visions with Blizzard considering the games they worked on, the N. Sane Trilogy and THPS 1+2 Remsatered, were major successes.
Yeah, if it wasn't for TFB I'd probably be more concerned about Crash's future regarding these news.
"Good job making those remakes! Now you can spend the rest of your existance working on Hearthstone and Overwatch skins!"
Freaking sucks to hear that seeing how they have a long history with Crash Bandicoot outside of Naughty Dog. While I don't really care about Activision other than Crash and Spyro, I don't have any interest or give a **** at all about about Blizzard and their portfolio, Wished they weren't merged/tied with Activision.
I just hope they don't focus too much of their attention on Overwatch and other projects besides Crash and Spyro as I would love to see new Crash and Spyro games come out constantly from them just as fast as Nintendo pumps out mainline Mario games.
I mean, the whole point of this seems to be having VV work exclusively on Blizzard games. Unless Tracer gets a Crash alt (that's... not a comfortable idea), I fear these guys are done with Crash.
Word on the street due to Warcraft 3 Reforge being such a disaster, Blizzard disbanded their classic team and brought VV on as their new classic team and is currently remaking Diablo 2 due to their work on Tony Hawk and Crash
So the hypothetical Crash skin would be there? Is that better or worse than Overwatch?
I remember seeing this article before because for whatever reason I was like "Wait, What does he mean?" and after reading about 1/4-1/3 of it, I said to myself...
"That doesn't seem to be the case. It seems more likely that Sakurai is teasing the introduction of a different character from the Crash series. Villain Dr. Nefarious Tropy, and his female equivalent as an alternate skin. The reason some have reached that conclusion is the clocks Sakurai tweeted show the same times as the timepieces on the male and female versions of N. Tropy.
I swear, this "everyone is the protagonist" thing is getting out of hand...