Epic recently premiered 'Party Royale' in its free-to-play shooter Fortnite. In this "new experimental and evolving" space, there are no weapons or mats – instead it's all about hanging out with your friends and having fun. There are even "back-to-back-to-back" live sets being played by three famous DJs.
They aren't the only famous faces that make an appearance, either. In the promotional trailer for this event, the pink puffball Kirby can be seen at the very beginning. Yep, believe it or not, but the iconic Nintendo character appears in a video on an in-game monitor at the one-second mark. Take a look below:
Weird, right? Well, on top of this, Kirby has essentially been censored in the PlayStation and Xbox trailers. He's only visible in the original Fortnite trailer, and Nintendo does not appear to have uploaded this to its own YouTube channel yet – so nobody seems to know if Epic has actually got permission to show him, or if it's an oversight.
Surprisingly, this isn't the first time Kirby and Fortnite have been spotted together. Last year, My Nintendo released a Kirby wallpaper featuring a Fortnite logo. It was removed not long after users began pointing it out.
What do you think is going on here? Would you like to see Nintendo characters appear in Fortnite? Share your thoughts below.
[source gonintendo.com]
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A big Nintendo crossover would be inspired. I wouldn’t play it but I can guarantee it would be a huge success for all involved.
It could just be a tongue in cheek reference to the fornite logo appearing in the Kirby wallpaper haha. Strange times indeed!
KIRBY BATTLE ROYALE!!!
@SteveDaSteve : Out now on 3DS!
Kirby was too much for Sony and Microsoft it seems. I don’t blame them
You know, since they're not competitors and all.
Probarbly too worried that N would bring the lawyers in 😂
Going around fortnight with the skin of Smash bros most powerful character? That would be bad ass.
I imagine it'll be an exclusive event for Switch owners.
Sony always censoring everything.
I never really understood this game. The only things I know is, that it is popular with kids and that a lot of moviemakers use the memes that this game created for their projects.
I hope this is just a glimpse of things to come. Personally I love fortnite and would love to see a Nintendo event of some sort.
@RareFan I just play it cause its free and 1 season they gave all switch owners the free money tier.
Hmmm I doubt they would make a kirby event for Nintendo fortnite players (who have a switch) just to play. I mean put of the 350 million fortnite players only about 10% play on switch so it would be pointless. It's probably just a joke because of Nintendo using a fortnite logo on the kirby wallpaper
@RareFan Me neither until i played co-op with my younger brothers and friends, its not at all stressful for a shooter game and matches dont last too long. Plus the events can be quite fun sometimes, using lightsabers in the recent event was especially enjoyable.
I thought Metroid or Zelda would be in fortnite long before kirby. Weird.
@mesome713 cry about it
I guess I'm going to have to reinstall Fortnite for a bit
I guess this just confirms that Epic have indeed bought the rights to Kirby. Ever wondered why that Kirby game was free-to-play?
While the character does resemble Kirby which I had thought when it was introduced, it's not actually Kirby but a glider/emote/friend creature thing for 1 of the new characters introduced this season. It's obvis, a lot of u don't play fortnite nor pay attention... But y'all should b playing it if y'all real gamers 🤡🤡🤡
I think having Nintendo characters in this game (especially Samus, Daisy, and Diddy Kong) would be awesome, but with cross-play so ingrained in this game, I just don't see it happening. I can't picture Nintendo allowing its IPs showing up on competitor's platforms even if you can only buy them on the Nintendo version.
Honestly, good. Kirby should not touch the garbage that is Fortnite.
@nessisonett The thing is it isn't fortnite that put that there it was during a stream that was streaming someones Desktop or something and Kirby was on there desktop so It was just all a mis understanding.
I love Kirby, not a fan of Fortnite but this would be a cool crossover! However I think it’s likely a reference to the wallpaper mixup.
They should of left him in there, would of been epic cameo like when a random famous actor shows up in a movie...Matt Damon in Eurotrip or Stan Lee randomly showing up in Marvel Movie.
@TheLightSpirit Nintendo Minute had to blur out xbox and playstation logos when they did a video inside gamestop
So...why is Kirby in Fortnite?
I hope Kirby won’t be in Fortnite
A new party mode? Sounds like it has a big potential. Just, give it VR support
Now that I think about it, Kirby and Fortnite have been closer than ever, what is going on? Hopefully something interesting...
@T7Hokage017 @TheAwesomeBowser @RPGamer @JadeGames @ALinkttPresent
You guys seem really salty at the idea of Kirby being in Fortnite. Imagine the salt mine if Fortnite got any presence in Smash!
@Dog Please refrain from making mention of that thing being in Smash.
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