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I was a tad interested in it, but that price. Certainly it's a $2-$5 product, not a $20 one.

@MeowMeowKins He's DLC. What if you do not have him?

Sakurai's double standards. King Dedede and King K. Rool are both self-proclaimed "kings", but only one is involved and not the other.

Jim Sterling: NES CLASIiIiIiIiIC!

How much does this site love Rare?

If you're asking for Rare Replay, just get an XBox. It's what Mickrosoft wants you to do.

Kensuke Tanabe: "Nothing good about the previous game matters."

Masahiro Sakurai: "Characters that resonate with me are more important than characters that resonate with others."

What is this the year of the ego?

@Emperor-Palpsy @GrailUK Do you have an Xbox?

"Forgive us for going back over old ground we've already covered, but could Microsoft and Nintendo please just stop flirting with one another and hook up?"

No.

Those people that think that's a problem are the same ones that want Game Pass to be on Switch.

That brown bus got more polygons as he was moving away from it.

Won't fix online. Many games at least did.
Won't fix broken characters. Overwatch tried to.
Removes a platform and deems it a "new" stage.

That's what treating a director like he's some celebrity gets you.

"The Time Is Right For Microsoft And Nintendo To Get Comfier With One Another"

Great idea. 😑

@KingBowser Botox and lavish massages every two months.

50 years old, has worked with Nintendo for around 30 years, and still doesn't understand marketing.

Had to press Ctrl + F while reading this.

They're running out of ideas that never needed any in the first place.

"By 2017, Honor of Kings has over 80 million daily active players and 200 million monthly active players, and was both the world's most popular and highest-grossing game of all time as well as the most downloaded app globally."

That is why.

How about shipping more copies so that more people can buy it?

"I want to make a new KNiGHTS game without calling it KNiGHTS."

It was never Nintendo's to begin with.

Sega is the reason why studios are afraid to make taxi games.

@backup368 Also that quarterly "Best Buy leak" that "confirms" Metroid Prime Trilogy and Persona 5.

Nintendo fans will fall for anything nowadays: Pokemon Stars, Switch Pro, Switch Virtual Console, Smash Bros. for Wii-U port in September, and numerous message board "leaks".

Nah. WWF No Mercy probably won't get a remake or re-release. It's a sports game; it would be like re-releasing Madden '99. I know EA did that one year with modern rosters, but a wrestling game is not as easy to modernize like that when they have their own likenesses and looks and not bound to uniforms and helmets. I'm sure that if THQ Nordic were interested than they would need lots of arm-pulling to get it to market & it likely would be more trouble than it's worth.

I heard about talk of an AEW game with AKI getting involved not too long ago. It sounds like it will be an indy game that requires skill to it like Blade Strangers. I watch the first few episodes of AEW but I couldn't get into it after the first few months. The only people in AEW I care about though are Darb Allin and Kris Statlander. Everyone else is either too bland, too outrageously off the wall, or a WWE has-been. They're also extremely disadvantaged without a creative team.

That would make for great toilet paper.

Tom Clancy's Smash Bros.

Also, Crystal Dynamics is currently putting all its man power in Marvel's Avengers. What studio would port it though?

It's fake. There's a typeface that the modern Tomb Raider games use; it's called Uni Sans. This graphic doesn't use that font.

@dux It never was. The first Tomb Raider game was actually a timed exclusive on the Saturn in Europe.

Why is the Black Knight part of that graphic? Is Ganondorf or DK not a suitable parody of Olberic?

Also: Square Enix is SOOOOOOO stingy!

@Joriss Dislike.

EA: That counts as one of those seven titles.

No wonder why so many influencers wanted a puppet, a cartoon bear, and a boy dressed as Mickey Mouse.

@tourjeff Only the 2013 one would be on the cartridge.

I have Wilmot. It's good but it can really get old and with a small time limit.

I thought it was the PC version. The N64 version didn't have music until the final lap.

Sakurai: Two different Amiibo for Cloud, Corrin, and Bayonetta!

Also Sakurai: Only one for Hero. 😢

@FlashBoomerang Only because you didn't play it?

Sakurai: I'm not that high on having western characters into my game.
SNK, Capcom, & Namco: $$$

I couldn't care less about Sakurai's furniture. If he was shown chewing gum then Nintendo fanboys would be in Japan's landfills the next day trying to find it & sell it for 100000 Euros online.

Poor Sakurai in his lavish upscale home with 2 70-inch flat screens side by side. He probably has sneaker and collared shirt collections that have their very own rooms upstairs.

@mesome713 He at least had a 360 when he played Bayonetta 1.

He has an Xbox One. It's right under the TV on the bottom cabinet.

@mesome713 Also, Joker is not Asian?

@mesome713 Min Min makes sense?

"I may not like FE but even I know that they have a 100% chance of being supported by Nintendo and IE again in the future despite the fact that they have a new rotating cast every game."

Yeah, you should expect more Fire Emblem games like you should expect more Kirby and Yoshi games. They could have added "Yarn Yoshi" to "promote" Yoshi's Woolly World that only sold 1.17 million copies on the Wii U. Kirby & the Rainbow Curse doesn't even have concrete sales info.

"Because you mentioned why FE is not in Mario Kart
Remember Post #57 "If what you are saying is true then how come Fire Emblem characters were never a thought in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe?"

They were allowed to use Kirby's likeness. If you scanned a Kirby amiibo, then you got a Kirby racing outfit. This wasn't the case with any Fire Emblem character.

"They would have to both have to apply paperwork as well due to the transition. Nintendo EPD cannot use FE freely despite being first party. Happens a lot in many entertainment companies."

And apparently, they didn't want to.

"And if you're a SE you get used to their higher ups making sure that fans get barebones content even in crossovers. Not only that Dissidia is all SE first party and have confirmed that the addition of guests in Dissidia is reduntant."

That game had 38 characters total, all from the same series. Not bad for being the first ever in a series.

"In Square Enix the ones that officially own the songs are the composers and not the companies. The composer for DQ Sugiyama is best known for not giving DQ games orchestrated versions of his song. Orchestral songs are even rarer in the west. Western fans found this odd until he started getting political by denying Japanese war crimes as well as stating Xenophobic statements. SE had to issue a public apology but due to his position cannot fire him.

When the Deluxe Edition was announced fans found it a miracle that the game came with orchestral music despite the PS4 version not having it."

I don't see how being xenophobic means he's not willing to grant the rights to more of his music.

@LightningDragon "Because Mario Kart Deluxe 8 is not made by Intelligent Systems.
Nintendo EPD added villager, Isabelle, Link and the Inklings into Mario Kart 8 Deluxe which was made by Nintendo EPD. The same guys that also made the games:
Legend of Zelda: Triforce Heroes, Breath of the Wild and its sequel, Splatoon 2 and Animal Crossing New Leaf and new Horizons. Might as well argue when they added Pac-Man, Ms. Pac Man, Ghosts, Mametchi and Don-Chan due to Bandai Namco."

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate isn't made by Intelligent Systems either. If they only had a few characters to choose from, why not it be from Nintendo's other best-selling series?

"Also where's Gamefreak's Pikachu, Eevee and HAL's Kirby."

Game Freak is treated like a 2nd party to Nintendo where they would need time and paperwork in order to use the Pokemon IP. Kirby is no hit like Splatoon, Animal Crossing, and Zelda have been. This wasn't supposed to be Super Smash Kart.

"They have done so before with their own crossover game Dissidia, 012 and NT despite the fact that they make it where only protagonists get priority and if the protagonist is not in the game no other content will be added and even then support for party members in crossovers is considered a miracle (hence why we also got 0 songs and spirits from other FF titles)."

If you're a Smash Bros. fan, you're used to getting more content with each character. In other fighting games, you basically have only 1 guest character and one music track from a new stage. You typically don't need more than that.

"Lara Croft in Brawlhalla is basically a glorified costume for another character who has the same moveset, not only that she belongs to western branch of Square Enix. Those guys are about as lax as the Enix branch in Japan"

How many music tracks? Zero. That is two less than what Cloud came with in Super Smash Bros.

"and even then Hero only came with 2 Midi songs per character because the composer is a xenophobe."

How does this make any sense?

And here's another classic.

Sakurai: Square Enix is so stingy.
Noctis announced for Tekken 7.
Sakurai: Square Enix is so stingy!
2B announced for SoulCalibur VI.
Sakurai: Square Enix is stingy to the max.
Thief Arthur announced for SNK Heroines.
Sakurai: Square Enix is soooooooooo stingy!
Lara Croft announced for Brawlhalla.

@LightningDragon And all those things you claim came from the same guy.

If what you are saying is true then how come Fire Emblem characters were never a thought in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe? The answer is because they only wanted Nintendo characters with successful series so that fans of those games would buy Mario Kart. The philosophies of these two games aren't the same.

The "ballot" was a stunt and Bayonetta was always in the plans. If you close the ballot in early October & reveal her in a near-complete state in mid-December, that's a clear giveaway that she was in development much sooner. Sakurai was always a big fan of the series and had rave reviews of the first game in his Famitsu column.

Of course you have a video from VGST, they'll believe anything he says. They were willing to justify how the pandemic was a good thing because it's better for Sakurai's "lifestyle". Sakurai can't change so the world has to.

@LightningDragon Sakurai has a history of lying. Specifically passing blame to other people when he blatantly picks characters that nobody asked for but himself. He can lie on his Famistu columns assuring that loyal fans like you will believe it.

Corrin: "The team made me."
Bayonetta: "The fans made me."
Byleth and others: "Nintendo made me."

And who in Nintendo is he referring to? Does he answer to an executive, a committee? No, he is super vague and nobody else at Nintendo is playing along with him.