Weirdness: Sony Uses Art From Super Smash Bros. To Celebrate 20 Years Of PlayStation

I think that as long as Capcom doesn't mind them using an image of Megaman that appeared on a Nintendo system, then I don't think anybody should mind, but if Capcom does have a problem (which I don't think that they will,) then Sony will simplely need to change it to a Megaman image that has appeared on a Playstation system. However, I have a feeling that the creator of this decided to cut corners and use the first image that He or She found on Google Images...

Well they had to use something from his modern days but Capcom neglected him. Mega Man has a better history with Nintendo i wonder why they assume he is part of PlayStation's history rather than say Volnutt

I also see Travis Touchdown when he only appeared in a PS3 remake of No More Heroes. Along with many others who don't really make much sense

Ah, not really that shocking. It is mega man. Unless Nintendo made the graphic it's a non-story really

Also, why isn't pushsquare reporting this? Lol

Oops.
Maybe they're thinking of putting him in the next battle royale game
snickers

@Takerkaneanite6
That Megaman image is made by Nintendo though plus the game it originated from is owned and being published by Nintendo.

@BensonUii Yeah, but Megaman is Capcom, so they may have helped Nintendo with the character model...

If you look closely, you can almost see the trophy stand.

too bad it's made out of characters that they almost never use anymore >.<

Almost a dig at Capcom, the best version of Mega Man they could find was made by Bandai Namco.

Edit: Thanks for the correction Deathgaze. The point still stands though, the best version wasn't made by Capcom. ^^

@Wouwter Bandai Namco*

@Takerkaneanite6
But it's licensed by Nintendo. Not Megaman in general but in Smash. And that particular image came from Smash.

Travis Touchdown ? What an insult

there's 3 Leon (From Resident Evil) pics in that lol and 2 lara crofts may be more (only seen that zoom in)
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also was Braid/Bard? (not sure on the name) Ever on a PS system? iv only seen it on Steam... (he is on the Big Daddy's Sholder )
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And what is with the creepy Wander with the White hair? iv played SotC allot more or less 100% Everything doable on the PS2 and do NOT recall him having Short-ish White hair.

@Takerkaneanite6

It's not that simple I'm afraid. Yes, Capcom does have a say since it is Megaman. However, the image in question is from Smash Bros. therefore Nintendo has just as much say here. Both will need to decide if it's "ok" to remain, and I doubt it will be.

Typical sony crap. An entire company built on the backs of better game developers and companies continuing to play off that same mentality.

Half these properties aren't even on sony consoles anymore.

@Takerkaneanite6 it is to the matter of if nintendo mind, it is a model that idea within their published intellectual property under contract with capcom, Sony have been naughty

@AugustusOxy exactly, there's maybe 3 exclusive characters there. None developed by Sony. It's like Samsung showing all the major actors from Hollywood and saying "look how amazing our bluray player is, is let's you watch all these actors!"

As others said, that pic is 20th year of gaming also, but surely not only, related to the playstation.

Aren't we falling a bit in false advertising here? XD
Ack... definitly false advertising since they even used a model of a character from a totally not sony game >.>;;;

@MoonKnight7 Sony and Nintendo have been friendly rivals over the last couple of years, with both companies happy with each other's success. If Sony asked Nintendo it was O.K with them to continue using that image, then I have no doubt that Nintendo will say sure, as long as maybe Sony state what game it is from...

They could've just used the image from Mega Man 8.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fi/8/8c/Megaman_8-.jpg

Ah, Spyro and Crash, I miss the times when you were still made by Insomniac Games and Naughty Dog.

I doubt Sony got the rights to use every character on this, it would be an absolute licensing and coordination nightmare. I mean, Wakko is there for some reason. And Feena from Grandia - a defunct series that who knows who the license owner is. It will just be a Google job.

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Eh, nothing too sinister here. This was obviously just a mistake - though I wonder if Sony are simply allowed to slap all these characters onto its official site, without going through all the IP holders?

Playstation turns 20? Really?! Man I feel old.

Eh, it's not a big deal, it's still artwork of Megaman at least. Adding in the IGN logo to the Okami boxart, now that was a big laugh hahaha.

Mega Man hardly has any reason for being in there anyway. Mega Man 8 was on PS1 (as well as Saturn) and PS3 got MM9 and MM10 like everything else. If anything, that should be X. X5, X6, X7, and X8 were exclusive home console releases to Playstation. X4 and X3 also had Playstation releases.

Should had used his Marvel Vs Capcom 3 artwork, oh wait

...Did Megaman really had a major history with Sony? I mean, yeah, X4-8 were released on Sony consoles, as well as Megaman 8 and the Megaman Legends games, but he honestly isn't really a character that I associate with Sony much. Travest Touchdown being there is another odd one.

That's actually pretty funny, at least Mega Man isn't in the front row or more people would've noticed.

Mega Man X was more a PlayStation thing than classic Mega Man, so he would have made more sense than the image they used.

Wait! Wakko Warner? From Animaniacs: Ten Pin Alley? I see they were digging the bottom of the barrel for this.

Hey it's the monkey from Time Splitters! I loved those games. We used to use firewire cable to hook multiple PS2s together to play on separate TVs. That brings back memories for me.

@wieba or rather that very few of their respective owners ever use anymore I'd say , cause of a lot of this aren't exactly Sony figures, most of it is multiplat stuff, belonging to third parties. There's actually not a lot of Sony owned stuff in there. Though of course I agree that a lot of that third party stuff is indeed kinda emblematic of sony's playstation branding like Crash Bandicoot which was only ever great with the original PSX titles.

@Genesaur In Japan, all classic Megaman titles were re-released as stand-alone disc titles for the original Playstation. Not sure if these specific releases came out elsewhere though. Example: http://pics.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/1350443608-00.jpg

Ha, Peter Griffin laugh.

I'll see who I can find that hasn't been mentioned yet in the provided picture (Wakko, Travis, Mega Man,):

All three versions of Lara Croft
Jade from BG&E (Though I've always heard about the GC version of that, never the PS2 version)
There is a Green Lantern
It looks like they used Leon Kennedy's RE4 model (Which was originally a GC exclusive)
The character from Steamworld Dig (Though I thought that was really big on the 3DS)
Shepard from Mass Effect (Originally a 360 exclusive)

And, that's all I have time for right now.

Nothing to see here. Move along...

The only exclusive Sony franchise I really care about is LBP. I got my PS3 for LBP and BluRay, also picked up 3D Dot Heroes and the occaional multiplat that didn't see a Wii/Wii-U release.

Not surprising. Sony has a quite a history when it's come to stealing from Nintendo.

If they really wanted to celebrate Playstation they should have made an entirely new image of all the characters

That's pretty funny. To be fair, it's probably the first image to show up in a Google Image Search.

No wait, it's the second.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mega+man&espv=2&biw=1473&bih=309&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=cz-QVMWHDo-hyASB7YG4Ag&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ

lol, they've taken it down now... No megaman at all on the image as I write this!

@Takerkaneanite6

"...as long as maybe Sony state what game it is from...

See that's just it though. I don't see any copyright text on this image at all. Not to mention, how does the Mega Man from Smash Bros. promote Playstation? It doesn't.

Their friendly rivalry does not apply here. Since the image seems to be lifted from the internet that's where the problem is. Nintendo didn't provide the image itself, they won't be happy with that since they do not know the source, as images from the internet become distorted over time, i.e. images become skewed, improper colors arise, pixelation occurs, etc.

Because they were never asked, I'm certain Nintendo will ask them to politely remove it. Above all, it inadvertently associates Smash Bros. with Playstation.

Sanic's not even on the thing, or any Sega character for that matter, which makes sense I guess =w='

@vonseux Yeah, my thoughts exactly... Mega Man artwork from Smash Bros, Thavis Touchdown from NMH, the second game being Nintendo exclusive, Leon Kennedy RE4 artwork, while still the best physical version of the game was Nintendo exclusive, the monkey from Timesplitters could be excused for the first game being PS exclusive as far as I know, but the multiplayer was one of the biggest aspects and PS2 only supported 2 controllers,... If anything -without being a fan boy, yet as a simple fan of Nintendo's work- this proves to me they had to look quite hard to fill their screen with diverse 'Sony' characters... And I know they have quite some, but the amount of licenses needed for All Star Battle (or what was it called again) proves they lack when compared to Nintendo's Brawler.

Yep. Megaman is gone from the official site.

I think people are missing the point of this picture. It's not about what was exclusive to the Playstation brand, its all the games that could be play on the various Playstation consoles over the year.

It ties into Sony's history of not only offering decent first-party games, but getting tons of third-party games, often better support then Nintendo, Sega or even Microsoft could have hoped to see.

It ties into Playstation's marketing since it started, which is that their consoles get virtually all the major titles and is the best place to play video games.

The image is both a celebration of their past and advertising for their modern systems where they can say "Remember when the PS1 and PS2 had better support then the N64, Saturn, Gamecube, Dreamcast, and Xbox? Well, nothing has changed."

It's an promotional tool for their modern systems as well.

@andywitmyer Besides Move(which is no different from copying the concept of a light gun or controller) what did Sony steal from Nintendo?

If your answer is anything along the lines of Final Fantasy, then Sony did not steal that. Nintendo drove off companies like Square by using carts on the Nintendo 64 that were not big enough for the games they wanted to created. Sony did not steal them, these compaines came to them because the PS1 was the best platform of that era to develop their games for.

The Saturn was hurt by its difficult to understand hardware that made it harder for developers to build games on the platforms, and the Nintendo 64 was hurt by Nintendo's stubborn refusal to accept CDs as the future(something that still kinda hurts them even today)

Sony did not steal anything. Their success with the PS1 was because they built the better hardware in terms of ability and ease of development for third-partes. Something Sega and Nintendo dropped the ball on during the generation.

Oh Sony, you never change

Wow, a TON of those characters have appeared on Nintendo systems as well. I'd say possibly up to half of them.

Sony would do something like this.

The big surprise here is Wakko. Might as well throw in Buster and Plucky in there too.

Forget Mega Man why the heck is Wacko from Animaniacs on there?

They're just showing a bunch of characters that have been on their consoles throughout the PS history... I mean, Mr Driller, a plant from Plants VS Zombies Garden Warfare, Klonoa, Viewtiful Joe, the Steamworld Dig guy, and all the Lego characters have appeared elsewhere as well.

@Takerkaneanite6 @readyletsgo If it's from a Nintendo game then Nintendo made it from material they licensed. Being from Smash, it's a Nintendo image. However I don't think Nintendo will actually care, especially as it will help promote Smash Bros to Mega Man fans (look how amazing he looks on the Wii U and how Nintendo have given Mega Man fans the only new Mega Man game worth playing).

@Caryslan if they used an image Nintendo made, then yes they stole it, assuming they didn't get permission.

@Mega719
Pretty sure there was a version of Megaman 8 on PS1, along with most of the X games.

Pathetic sony. Some pretty good comments here demonstrating how dull Playstation really is and what it stands for.
@Shambo (Also, didn't know that PS2 was limited to 2 controllers, while I guess others had 4), thanks.

Well, stuff happens. We'll see if Nintendo has a problem with that. But yeah, as others said, most of these characters aren't "Playstation" characters to begin with, and quite a bunch of them either don't exist anymore, or were never successful in any notable way.

@S-Miyahon Guess who fell for it?

Why not use a picture of Mega Man X instead? He had more games on Sony systems than the original Mega Man did methinks.

[email protected] of those mascots are dead, not sony exclusive or lame....never was a fan of sony....NEVER! And I've been playing video games since I was 4. Now 26...

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They could had used Mega Man Volnutt from Mega Man Legends, he's the only one that debut on the PlayStation.

some of these characters are on nintendo like street fighter and no more heroes

Well, that didn't take long. Mega Man is not in the picture anymore.

Why is the big daddy from Bioshock such a prominent figure in that image? The first Bioshock was an Xbox 360 exclusive game and nothing about those games is iconic to Playstation.

I've also spotted several other characters that don't make a lot of sense there except to populate the screen and make it seem more impressive. Not that I don't like the Playstation, but it still seems a bit off to include them.

@Takerkaneanite6 I'm pretty sure that Nintendo owns that image and not Capcom.

Bring a lawyer, HURRY!!

@Liquid_ice

Haha, that's awesome. Just like Mega Man games, they're nowhere to be found all of the sudden Haha.

Huh...I hadn't realized that the system was that old. I always thought it came out after the n64 for some reason.

ok sony

Sorry but I think this is reaching. Seriously. Nintendo isn't the first to use a bunch of characters in a huge picture....and they certainly won't be the last.

Why there is 3 different versions of Leon Kennedy? Resident Evil 4 was originally Gamecube exclusive and that one Leon left from Aurora (Child of Light) says he is from Resident Evil 5.

Nintendo doesn't own Megaman (as your dreams would have you believe), Capcom does. They are the only ones that get a say.

...Huh?
Classic Mega Man hasn't even been part of Sony. That'd be either X (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, that RPG spin-off...) or Volnutt.

@Punished_Boss_84 They don't own any of Smash Bros's assets...

This is also a very badly put together image. Sm4sh's Mega Man sticks out like a sore thumb...

@B3ND3R yes but a majority are on Nintendo systems. Hence i mentioned Volnutt since the Mega Man Legends games have been on PlayStation systems (with only a few poor ports and a cancelled sequel) Smash Wii U mentions just Mega Man 64 even though it wasn't w noteworthy game

@Sergio151 gasp don't tell me you never heard of Tin Pin Alley or The Great Edger Hunt! Don't worry dame here

@Melkac
Megaman is not Smash's asset, it's Capcom's asset licensed to Nintendo for usage in their game. It is Capcom's character, Nintendo doesn't get a say just because it appears in their game first.

This isn't the first time Playstation did something like this.

A few weeks ago, they used a background from a screenshot of a Crash Bandicoot fangame in a tweet/vine about the series.

A FANGAME. The creators were flattered, haha.

epic fail

Sounds like it's already been taken down. I guess that's a lesson learned in using Google to slap together promotional material. I wonder how many of the other individual images in that collage are copyrighted?

@Caryslan This doesn't feel like a celebration of Playstation though. If you showed me this pic with no context I would have thought it was made by someone with Photoshop, a lot of free time and a bias for PS. Also left side of the pic is a complete eyesore. 3D and 2D renders do not mesh together well.

I'm kind of confused by Travis, I mean he has a game on PS3, but when I think of Travis Touchdown I don't think of Sony systems.

So what?

It doesn't show any Nintendo characters

LOOK! It's the Monkey from Time Splitters to the right of that! That reminds me: when are we getting Time Splitters U?

@S-Miyahon You accused the article of being clickbait, and I was trying to be snarky. Don't worry, it's just a joke. ^_^

@S-Miyahon what the bell you are talking about. I'm not the one who said that . You nonsense