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@Dualmask Before Ubisoft funded the game it was straight-up indie.

At first I thought this was a TellTale Games game.

This was actually confirmed days ago if you watched his latest episode.

@Caryslan A ballot with only one vote: Sakurai's.

This only proves that Sakurai is not a No More Heroes fan.

@mousieone For one, Minecraft is commercially successful, maybe more than 100 times as successful as Bayonetta. Not an exaggeration with only Bayonetta only selling around just 5 million copies.

@Alaninho Lara Croft is one of the biggest.

@mousieone Rayman games on the Wii U and Switch are published by Nintendo in Japan. That doesn't make Rayman a Nintendo character now does it?

@Ratking "Ever heard of Sega and their mascot Sonic?"

Yes. Sonic Mania was great.

"And Mojang belongs to Microsoft, whether you like it or not."

Not the point.

@Arkay It's on Xbox One.

@DarkTron Have you played Minecraft Story Mode? There is no mention of Microsoft anywhere in that game. If there were, then yes, that would be an indicator that Microsoft controls the IP. They control the Banjo Kazooie IP because they wanted full control of Rare when they bought them.

@TwoThumbs Rare isn't on it. I don't see how its hard to determine where the rights lie. Atlus still controls the IP and any third party deals are dealt with them, even when Sega wants to use the IP such as just recently with PSO2.

Anyway, I don't consider Steve to be Microsoft. He belongs to Mojang. Every Minecraft crossover in video games and march was always a Mojang affair, never a Microsoft one. Mojang also published every version of Minecraft except for the PS and Xbox versions. If Minecraft is supposed to be Microsoft property, then what is Mojang doing on the Smash Bros. Copyright list? What do they claim ownership of in the product if not Minecraft?

"Now, how about Master Chief to top it off?"

Why don't you write for the Xbox site? What are you doing here to suggest that Microsoft's mascot belongs in a Nintendo product?

"Nintendo has maintained rosy relations with Microsoft for a number of years now"

If by "rosy" you mean Microsoft is trying to suck any momentum they can from Nintendo, then yes, its rosy alright.

"...Someone from Nintendo will come to my workplace and say... 'Mr. Sakurai... Surely you can put Minecraft in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate?' while peering at me over their glasses. They make it sound easy. I guess they think this all happens by magic or something. Don't they know what kind of game Minecraft is? The wizardry required to make it work in this game... It's impossible!

So, I laid it out straight for them. I said, 'Yes, I can do it.'"

Yeah, that didn't happen.

Game developers:
Sakurai: "This was haaard wooork. Pity meeee!"
Fans: "Sakurai is such a legend!"

@YoshiAngemon Right. They control Banjo-Kazooie. Mojang however has been more successful on their own than 10 Rares put together.

@Sam_Loser2 "MOJANG AB" is a funny way to spell Microsoft.

@rockodoodle Mojang has control over the IP, not Microsoft.

I was right about Mojang getting the credit for Minecraft characters.

@Silly_G Fans pretended like Doom never existed up until the 2016 version was announced for the Switch. Let's not beat around the bush now.

"Doom Guy" hasn't even appeared in either of the 2 Doom films. Nintendo fans didn't even care about the series until September of 2017. And at that, Doom isn't even Bethesda's best-selling franchise. It's not even 2nd either. How did this character become flavor of the month?

The "Brief message from Sakurai" will just be an advertisement to tune into his "special presentation" in a week or so.

Sakurai has no reason to need that much time covering a DLC character. NetherRealm only needs a two minute video and that's it. We don't have Ed Boon have to explain to us who Spawn is.

PSO2 is free.
But there is a $60 edition that also includes Sonic items.

"One Nintendo Life reader on our forums wanted a refund in order to purchase a physical copy of Witcher 3 after their son bought it on eShop before realising it wouldn't fit on the installed micro SD card."

Did he not read the specs? It's one of the largest Switch games at the moment.

He once said "The fact people don't know who Terry is is the reason why he deserves to be in Smash". You could say the same thing about the next indy character you find in the eShop. 🙄

Well, it's bad forever.

@BionicDodo Because The Outer Worlds was still in development for those platforms.

How's that Nintendo "partnership" going?

Bad Business: Releasing a retro game collection available for a limited time.
Good Business: Having the XBOX Game Pass throttle the eShop.

Oh NintendoLife.

Othercide
Thronebreaker
PSO2
maybe WWE 2K Battlegrounds but I want to wait for the price to go down but I'm not sure how long a wait that will be.

Why are they complaining that it's not at 60 FPS? Then it doesn't feel like I'm playing a retro Mario game.

Monster Hunter devs be like "We want to waste people's time just like Sakurai."

These would just be PC ports if they were released for PC at the time they were released on their respective consoles.

Or maybe "Gods and Monsters" was just too generic of a name for a Ubisoft product.

@jobvd What would be the purpose of that?

@NoobishEli they have until March if they want to download it.

@NoobishEli Maybe it gives consumers the urge to download it.

@NoobishEli Well the NES and SNES classic were made in limited quantities. Had they made as many as possible that would have affected their new hardware and software sales. It's possible for people to just buy the cheap retro plug and play and never pick up another Nintendo product again. In the case of the NES classic, that was at a time in which in Wii U was faltering and third parties were skeptical of supporting the Switch.

@NoobishEli So that gamers can peruse other games rather than just the classic Mario ones.

Jim Sterling: WA--

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Good thing I don't want it. Already played them.

@khululy I don't think it's possible. They ripped off Nintendo and Sega's designs and the documentary is basically doing the same.

@Kalmaro They have multiple trailers on Steam.

Spawn Wave are one of those influencers that clamor to have the "virtual console" and end up playing Super Mario 64 completely stone-faced.

It would jack up the price of 3D All Stars

I would actually be more curious if another game tried using the ring con.

Now if only people were this pressing towards Sakurai, he would actually have motivation to fix his game.

No more Rare articles.
If you want Rare Replay, go get an Xbox.

They couldn't get both of them?