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Re: Random: Banjo-Kazooie Creator Reacts To Duo's Bittersweet Cameo In The Latest Smash Trailer

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@KingBowser86 Yet the fans are complaining that Microsoft is "basically sitting on Rare". Rare's own IPs never sold well. Rare had made games like Conker: Live and Reloaded, Grabbed by the Ghoulies, Viva Pinata, and Kameo, and they flopped. Had you supported your favorite character like you should have, then perhaps the series would have still continued. Sea of Thieves is Rare's most successful game by far - wasn't even their own idea.

Forgive me if I don't see any parallels between Rare's success and the demand for the games that Nintendo fans want from them.

Re: Final Fantasy VII's Sephiroth Gets Added To The Smash Bros. Ultimate Mural

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@JuiceMan_V
"Just proved my point with this sentence being that Banjo is just there to be hype as a fan requested character."

That likely wasn't even the reason why Sakurai agreed to put him in the game, but rather Xbox was also heavily pushing for it. They don't want to do such thing without reason.

"Bruh, most kids kids 25 and under had no clue who Terry was and this KOF Mobile you're trying to reference means nothing lol! Everyone in my age bracket and/or hardcore fighting game fans knew who he was."

Banjo had had far less exposure, and the fans he's had left even admitted they refused to buy his previous game on Xbox 360. I don't even get the obsession Nintendo fanboys have over the character. There were some better character choices that would have been better than Terry but his importance to the market is far greater than Banjo.

"What??? I don't even understand what you're saying here. I will say this, Nintendo fanboys ain't clamoring for your horrible Lara Croft suggestion lol!"

This is precisely the kind of self-entitlement I was talking about. You paid no attention to anything I wrote did you?

"So? Fire Emblem now a known series of games in the West because of Smash Bros."

And did Mario, Pokemon, Zelda, and Animal Crossing need Smash to be successful? No. You can try to shove Fire Emblem down people's throats like Sakurai tried doing for the past 20 years, but it won't MAKE fans care, like a switch in somebody's brain. They'll only like it if they're intrigued with Fire Emblem's own product.

"Anecdotally, I already know 3 people that want to play the OG FF7 after the Smash reveal.

Mission accomplished to me"

Great, I guess the marketing and hype the game had for decades prior had no significance then?

Re: Final Fantasy VII's Sephiroth Gets Added To The Smash Bros. Ultimate Mural

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@GoldenSunRM I have 345 hours invested in the game. You're mistaken if you believe the drive behind the sales of this game are its "fun, cool movesets". It's usually because of the characters that people buy it for. Mortal Kombat fans likely won't get it if it doesn't have Scorpion. They wont care if Sephiroth was the one doing the spears and uppercuts.