Colololin
Smash Cadet
- Joined
- Dec 25, 2014
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I see a lot of people throwing the notion that you need to be "iconic" or something to get into Super Smash Bros but I have been sitting on a theory for a while and as a former Wii U owner that saw Nintendo's troubles first hand I can safely say I believe some of you are drawing conclusions because of the name of the franchise when in reality, it is likely a lot more simple.
With Wii U, Nintendo had crashed in the console market and companies such as EA were constantly banging their drums about how they were doomed. However, among these naysayers there stood several companies that helped them out as a favour, and additionally, stood on the platform singing Switch's praises before or just after the system launched. I have noticed a pattern but not the same one, and Banjo is kind of the exception. I believe the whole DLC passes to have been built around Nintendo promoting Switch games for themselves and rewarding the companies that stood out and defended or assisted them while they were down.
Corporate suits do take notice of the comments of many antagonistic journalists and analysts such as Geoff Keighley and Michael Pachter and it can annoy them just as much as the fans. So when Koei, Bethesda and Epic are singing Switch's praises and saying how third parties failed for not backing it, yet companies like Capcom or EA are either "waiting and seeing" or claiming "they've been so underpowered that they don't have the support of the third parties" what would you do as a CEO?
The evidence
Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem and Minecraft both existed on Wii U despite the developers knowing the system had failed. SNK Heorines was signed in a exclusive deal for physical distribution in summer 2017 between Nintendo Europe and NISA. Square Enix were laughing all the way to the bank with their JRPGs and other rumoured characters include both Ryu Hayabusa and Doom Guy while Fortnite has had "no comment" despite Mark Rein saying how great it was for UE4 to exist on Switch and how they outright marketed the engine for Japanese developers to use when the system was launching.
Capcom having no contract
There was evidence of a Monster Hunter character before launch as music was paired with the fighter section but seemingly have no plans for DLC. Well given Capcom's little blackmail threat to Switch owners about making us buy Street Fighter 2 at an inflated price and excluding Monster Hunter from intial planning for the future despite it gainging popularity in the west because Nintendo backed it, this was a bad move by them and they paid for it.
If you want to work out who the remaining DLC characters are look at who never publicly bashed their systems, who was backing Wii U as a favour or who was putting Switch on a pedestal before Smash Bros was released. It contributes the notion that Nintendo picked the characters because Nintendo would only pick characters to promote and they want to reward them for backing them while they were down. How big the franchise is does not matter because it is companies that backed them while they were down being rewarded for their efforts by getting in the biggest crossover in video games and gaining DLC royalties from characters sold.
Problem EA and Capcom?
With Wii U, Nintendo had crashed in the console market and companies such as EA were constantly banging their drums about how they were doomed. However, among these naysayers there stood several companies that helped them out as a favour, and additionally, stood on the platform singing Switch's praises before or just after the system launched. I have noticed a pattern but not the same one, and Banjo is kind of the exception. I believe the whole DLC passes to have been built around Nintendo promoting Switch games for themselves and rewarding the companies that stood out and defended or assisted them while they were down.
Corporate suits do take notice of the comments of many antagonistic journalists and analysts such as Geoff Keighley and Michael Pachter and it can annoy them just as much as the fans. So when Koei, Bethesda and Epic are singing Switch's praises and saying how third parties failed for not backing it, yet companies like Capcom or EA are either "waiting and seeing" or claiming "they've been so underpowered that they don't have the support of the third parties" what would you do as a CEO?
The evidence
Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem and Minecraft both existed on Wii U despite the developers knowing the system had failed. SNK Heorines was signed in a exclusive deal for physical distribution in summer 2017 between Nintendo Europe and NISA. Square Enix were laughing all the way to the bank with their JRPGs and other rumoured characters include both Ryu Hayabusa and Doom Guy while Fortnite has had "no comment" despite Mark Rein saying how great it was for UE4 to exist on Switch and how they outright marketed the engine for Japanese developers to use when the system was launching.
Capcom having no contract
There was evidence of a Monster Hunter character before launch as music was paired with the fighter section but seemingly have no plans for DLC. Well given Capcom's little blackmail threat to Switch owners about making us buy Street Fighter 2 at an inflated price and excluding Monster Hunter from intial planning for the future despite it gainging popularity in the west because Nintendo backed it, this was a bad move by them and they paid for it.
If you want to work out who the remaining DLC characters are look at who never publicly bashed their systems, who was backing Wii U as a favour or who was putting Switch on a pedestal before Smash Bros was released. It contributes the notion that Nintendo picked the characters because Nintendo would only pick characters to promote and they want to reward them for backing them while they were down. How big the franchise is does not matter because it is companies that backed them while they were down being rewarded for their efforts by getting in the biggest crossover in video games and gaining DLC royalties from characters sold.
Problem EA and Capcom?
