Sakurai Says Getting Banjo-Kazooie In Smash Bros. Ultimate Came "Quite Easily"

I still can't believe how generous microsoft is acting at the moment.
We are very lucky with their attitude and I am very grateful for it.

I really like that all the DLC fighters so far are highly requested fighters by fans.

When they had the online vote for Smash for Wii U, I voted for Banjo Kazooie.
Now, can we get our ports for the original games on switch, PLEASE!!

Line 8:
"help OUT your rivals"

@ZeldaNX Me too. It's not like we're seeing Master Chief in there though, they've done nothing with Banjo, I'm sure they just thought... might as well throw Nintendo a bone and keep them in the good books. Either that or BANJO/HALO/GEARS NINTENDO SWITCH CONFIRMED.

Walls are steadily falling for SSB. First up bad guys were added, then 3rd party characters, and though Banjo-Kazooie is legacy Nintendo/Rare 2nd party, we've now added a character that belongs to a console rival. Time to eat crow, cause the only place this series can surprise from here on is non-videogame origin characters, such as the highly requested Goku. Or how about Tatsunoku? Swinging back to videogames, SNK rep is about due... Terry Bogard or Paul & Vince anyone? Sakurai better take care of his health, cause this magnum opus may be his work til his end days.

@Bunkerneath Heh, I always assumed that Rare/MS characters were impossible and therefore would be wasted votes, so instead voted for Simon Belmont. Of course neither Simon nor Banjo got into Smash 4, but who’s laughing now?!?

I just hope one of the last two DLC characters is Doomguy. It would be nice considering all of Bethesda's support on this system.

I was surprised in good way that upcoming Smash Fighter DLC wasn't Steve from Minecraft. After all, Minecraft was big reason why Microsoft has become more friendly with Nintendo.

Since Banjo-Kazooie has returned, maybe we'll see two old Banjo-Kazooie games on Nintendo Switch soon?

Very thankful to Microsoft for their attitude lately... I just picked up Hellblade which was made possible by them on the Switch. It's an amazing port...
We also have Super Lucky Tales coming soon and have recently had Cuphead released on the platform. All thanks to Microsoft!!!! We will get the next Minecraft next year too....

If they could just release Rare Replay I would be very happy!!

"This is Sakurai's personal opinion but he doesn't really care for console wars. No matter what kind of consoles come out, if there are enjoyable games, Sakurai will always respect that."

All these additions so far have just been the most amazing fan service I could ever imagine. All I can really think of now are Isaac and Geno in terms of highly requested characters that would make a large amount of people freak out to the point of tears, but I'm pretty sure they've both been deconfirmed with Spirits. Regardless, this game will be heralded as one of the coolest things to ever happen to gaming, period.

So glad to see Nintendo and Microsoft cooperating. Perhaps we aren't too far from seeing Diddy Kong Racing 64 with some improvements like the Turok games on Switch.

Super excited about Banjo-Kazooie entering Smash.

Still holding out hope for Geno too.

Crash would be cool too. Honestly there are still so many options. When people say Smash is running out of options for new characters I usually can name about 30 off the top of my head that would work in Smash.

im so happy with banjo's inclusion, but also fear this is just a "throwing us a bone" situation and no other plans involving banjo and nintendo are planned. i really hope there are, even just a rerelease of the old games would be huge

Minecraft recently overtook Tetris as the best selling game in the world, with 176 million copies sold to Tetris’ 170 million.
Even if not in the fighters pass, if they release more DLC, or even a ‘sequel’, Steve from Minecraft most likely will be the first indie character.
Also Microsoft ip stuff and stuff yeah it’s pretty inevitable

One of the greatest things to come out quite easily.

It's hard to believe how easily Banjo joined Smash, but I'm not gonna complain XD

Also, I don't think Sakurai realize that DQ has fans holding it in high regard also in the west, japanese fans are not the only ones he should feel nervous about~

6 Euro's for Banjo alone is worth it. Stage looks gorgeous. Hope there will be at least 1 extra song tho. So happy with this DLC (funny enough my first DLC on any game)

I am so excited for Banjo, as well as Hero honestly. This is basically a dream come true!
All I need now is Spyro, and my life will be fulfilled.

I can't even begin to fathom who the final two Fighter Pass characters will be; they keep one-upping themselves like this, I'm starting to think even Sora might be the very last reveal.

He's not who I want in, mind you — I've only wanted an Eternal Darkness rep since Brawl — but I recognize what an incredibly huge bombshell he would be to announce.

Glad I got the Fighter Pass!!! Don't have to worry when they release, they'll just show up!

One has to wonder whether or not we might also see Joanna Dark at some point? There needs to be some gender balance with the DLC characters and I could think of no one better, especially if they were to give her a tuxedo outfit as reference to GoldenEye.

@ZeldaNX My experience has been that when there are 3 gaming companies (or more) and the top one is way in the lead, the others are more willing to cooperate with each other, to try to narrow the lead.

@ZeldaNX Ha. You really think Microsoft isn't going to try to capitalize? They have a new console releasing in just over a year.

@BANJO Microsoft didn't make Super Lucky's Tale, nor did they have any say in it coming to Switch.

@backup368 https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/06/nintendo_and_microsofts_love-in_continues_with_new_super_luckys_tale_coming_to_switch_this_fall

This is just part of MS’s strategy of getting all their IP/games/services everywhere...

@KazooieTooie
Grant Kirkhope confirmed in an interview with Shesez on YouTube that there would be multiple remixes. He said he thought about doing a medley of many different Banjo-Kazooie songs, but Nintendo told him not to worry about that and just focus on one song, because they had other people working on new arrangements of other songs.
https://youtu.be/EnTdb5wgV2g
(He mentions other remixes around the 5:50 mark.)

@BANJO That's not a super-bias article at all. Did you know Super Lucky's Tale is actually a sequel to another game? What platform was Lucky's Tale on?

@InvisiBulbasaur thanks for the info!

@backup368 I need say no more!!!

Just give me Tingle and Captain Rainbow already. I would love to see Goemon on there. I want some real, lesser known, leftfield characters on there

@Saego no one requested joker

A new Banjo would make the scarlett look more tempting. Smash is basically free advertising for 3rd party companies at this point.

I'd love to see for the final character the same trailer as k rools and banjo except banjo is sitting there too, then a chainsaw revs down the wall and Conker is there. Now THAT would be amazing. And also Joana dark and Peirce brosnan too I guess. Just every classic rare character.

I have a hard time justifying the purchase of Smash DLC because I don't often play it with my friends, my kids are pretty much done with it now and my wife could care less about the game. When I play by myself I tend to just use Link and I don't branch to far from that.

But "The Hero"... I love Dragon Quest and the Hero is calling to me. Maybe I should just wait for Dragon Quest XI.

@BeanoWild
Pierce Brosnan is not a classic Rare character.

They’ve already crossed off many characters on my longstanding list. Simon, Richter, King K. Rool, Banjo-Kazooie... Ultimate has made so many pipe dreams come true. So, for me, personally, the only character left on my list is Professor Layton. I know that’s not happening, though!

@Keywork ... GoldenEye? You know what I mean

Just give is Erdrick in Orange.
And make Crash Bandicoot a Mii fighter costume with the face in his teeth like those Crash ads.
Anyone...Laura Croft?

@PoorGeno too much breats

@KazooieTooie

Grant Kirkhope said in an interview that when Nintendo approached him to do his song, that they’d said, “you don’t need to work on a medley of all the game’s songs, we have other composers remixing those.” So I doubt there won’t be a lot of good music.

@DavidMac well I'm afraid Rusty Bucket Bay isn't going to be in the DLC, my fave song lol

I imagine it went something like this;
Sakurai: Walks into Microsoft.
Microsoft: Here's Banjo.

@BeanoWild
Pierce Brosnan is an actual human person. Rare didn't create him for the GoldenEye game.

@Keywork I know he is an actor you eejit. Great man. Just the goldeneye James bond IS Peirce brosnan.

This is NOT a first. Geometry Wars appeared on the Nintendo DS before along with Diddy Kong Racing, a Rare game.

@BeanoWild
Do you know that? Because you included him in your request for "classic Rare characters" and he's definitely not one of them.

@Keywork well the game is the genre defining console fps.. and Peirce plays James bond in the game... And it is known as a classic hit... So I guess it is a classic rare character? Not owned but he is a classic character.

@BeanoWild
Pierce Brosnan is not a classic character. He plays a classic character though, but it's a classic literature character. Rare had no hand in creating James Bond. Pierce Brosnan is just an actor in a long list of actors to fill the role.

@Keywork I swear to God... He's in a classic game. He is an actor, yes I know, but he was in a game that is looked up to in the fps genre and he is the main character. He is a rare classic character and a literature and all of that. But I grew up with Peirce on my screen so because I saw Peirce in my childhood game, he is a rare character to me my father and my brother.

@BeanoWild
I don't care who you grew up with, that doesn't make Pierce Brosnan a Rare character. If you look up all the original characters that Rare created you will not find Pierce Brosnan on that list.

They did not create him and he will never be considered a classic Rare character. If you had said James Bond, you still would've been wrong but a little less so since James Bond is an actual character and not a real life human.

But even at that, James Bond and Pierce Brosnan are not classic Rare characters and they never will be. Grow up, kid.

I did not say rare created him. Also I'm referring to the Peirce brosnan version of bond. Yes he is owned by Ian Flemming and yes the game rights are Tangled in barbed wire by Nintendo rare microsoft the James bond company and Activision, but he the character was given to rare to create a game that is now being looked at as one of the greatest games. He is a classic rare character, but not a classic rare owned character.

@MeloMan You do know it’s impossible for non-video game characters to get in, right? Idk for sure but I’m pretty sure the requirements are that you have to originate from a video game and one of your video games appeared on a Nintendo console. Goku didn’t originate from a video game meaning he has no chance at ALL. Sans on the other hand...