Noipoi
Howdy!
So does that mean we can toss out the “NINTENDOS GONNA SHILL THREE HOUSES!!!”recent interview with atlus seems to confirm it was sakurai himself, not nintendo as an entity, who approached atlus for joker
so i think it's fairly safe to say 'nintendo chose the characters' was a slightly awkward translation of 'we're choosing them this time instead of using a ballot'
Crap?