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Re: Smash Bros. ARMS Presentation To Take Place From The Comfort Of Sakurai's Home

MrCerulean7

@backup368
@LightningDragon
Actually with what you both presented it should be both Nintendo and Sakurai. I can see it as a bunch of business deals
Nintendo chooses which franchises due to upcoming deals.
Atlus with Persona (Nintendo promoted upcoming titles that contained the Joker IP such as the port of Tokyo Mirage)
Dragon Quest (Publishing rights to the definitive edition and ports as well as other things)
Banjo-Kazooie (due to a deal with Minecraft)
Fatal Fury and SNK (Support from future SNK titles such as Samurai Shodown and the addition of the SNK library)
Fire Emblem Three Houses (Self explanatory)
ARMS (Nintendo's newest IP that sold 2 million that for some reason they keep sending out codes for the game as prizes in tournaments)

And Sakurai chooses the characters. Though not sure why Sakurai can't just say no to certain franchises if he has a "problem with them." Its not like they have a shortage of deals considering the support they've been getting.

That being said if Sakurai did lie about that whole thing in Famitsu then he might be in trouble.