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The only game developer on the planet who publicly laments how he never gets a break & he never gets criticism for it. Why does he do this for every game he works on? That is who we call a "diva". There are directors who work on much bigger games than this that never do this.

Oh but remember? 2B is DLC in SoulCalibur 6 so if we're in the business of writing off Lara Croft due to her appearing in Brawlhalla then we should also write 2B off too.

@Octane Do I have to write my comment again?

Remember all that thin air people were blowing about "Nintendo and Microsoft are partnering up"? Then the Game Awards happened and XBOX Series X was revealed.

Sakurai can write just about anything & his fans will believe him. He'll tell us next he discovered the coronavirus vaccine.

Is Doom Eternal not coming to the Switch in March?

@Krisi Even when Crash never got a new game in nearly a decade while Tomb Raider had still been getting new installments?

@tendonerd Lara Croft isn't a Sony character. In fact, the first platform Tomb Raider 1 was released on was the Sega Saturn in Europe.

To people that have been arguing about how "guest characters are only for Smash Bros. fans". Brawlhalla fans didn't ask for Lara Croft, at all. They instead want Tomb Raider fans to play their game. Now Brawlhalla is going to get a boost in downloads whereas Sakurai keeps spoon-feeding his own fanbase his vanity characters they may or may not want.

He's lying. He wanted Byleth.

@SpaceboyScreams LOL it actually lasts a significantly long time. It's not like any other reflector move in the game where it lasts for half of a second. Sakurai doesn't care he screwed this character up. Any other develop would fix it. Great leader we got in charge.

@SpaceboyScreams He's slow and predictable without his projectiles. Nair is no match for Hero's speed and range. His tilts lack range.

@SpaceboyScreams To certain character like Villager, he's practically broken, all you need to do is get Bounce and it practically handicaps him because most of Villager's attacks that are of any use are projectiles.

"I otherwise agree that Byleth was a bad decision or at least announced at a horrible time but I also believe that the publishers are in control of the game before Sakurai,"

Nintendo's marketing is enough to promote their software. Having Mario in the game isn't to promote a Mario game, for example, it's to attract people who are fond of Mario to the Smash Bros. product.

@SpaceboyScreams I didn't say he should apologize. I don't expect him to. He knew his decision would upset people but he made it anyway. If any other developer said this, fans would be outraged. This is terrible PR & he did it before with Hero's RNG problems. If you want an example of fighting game DLC with no hassle at all, theres MK11.

@mesome713 there are characters from Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Crash Bandicoot, Mortal Kombat, Assassins Creed, and others that could have drawn even more customers to the product. So far 2 out of these 5 are treated like 2nd class citizens.

This guy never wants to be accountable for anything wrong he does. Why do people kiss his feet nonstop?

@gaga64 Yeah, so why did they stop there?

@gaga64 And you assume Microsoft kept letting them? No. They likely were still honoring a past contract.

How about we give the XBOX One BOTW & Smash while we're at it? Like, you really think Microsoft is going to just give a whole library of games to a console that they don't even own?

@tonyhoro Why do Nintendo fans think they are entitled to any game they want on Switch? Is just getting it on PC asking to much?

Why was this article made?

@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?

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

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

@nessisonett They have better hospitality under care of border patrol than wandering the middle of nowhere, likely with a child trafficker.

@Tasuki You is right. Sure, costs will go up but many industries will thrive when our products are domestic.

So long as we need to build pencils for instance, the companies who supply the wood, lead, aluminum, rubber and yellow paint will continue to thrive.

That is the essence of capitalism which has lifted 90 percent of the world out of poverty.

@nessisonett It didn't start with Trump. Illegal immigrant children have always been detained so that they don't flee as officials look them up to find out who they really are & where they came from. You can't just trust that the adults they came with are their legit parents because in many cases they aren't.

@Tempestryke What's wrong with a great economy, become energy independent, reduce taxes to a 60-year low, reducing unemployment, protect borders, protect law enforcement, protect unborn babies, and protect free speech?

That "doesn't do anything good for anyone", how?

@klingki I just noticed Golf Peaks had a sale & got it. Waiting to see if Tangledeep does too.

Seriously, who says that characters have to have games on a new Nintendo system in order to be in Smash Bros? When was this ever a "rule"?

@GrailUK Is he the flavor of the month after Cuphead, Shovel Knight, Scorpion, and Crash Bandicoot?

I bought the Ultimate Edition of Injustice 2. Didn't regret it.

Why would it? Nintendo approved it. Otherwise it wouldn't be there.

Please get it. Spent tons of time on this game on the mobile version. One thing to beware though is the cheating AI in later stages.

It looks more like a waterfall than an environment you would be flying over.

@Ulysses Awareness doesn't equal profits, and this is often why you don't see crossovers between franchise that you've never heard of before. RWBY and Blazblue are both rather niche brands in their own rights. I'm sure that deal was huge for Rooster Teeth, and Arc System Works was very happy they got to work with them, but if Arc System Works had to choose between RWBY and the Walking Dead, they would definitely take the Walking Dead in the heartbeat.

The Walking Dead is a popular and globally-known TV franchise. Tekken fans may buy the Negan character because they like owning all the characters, but if the show doesn't interest them, they're not going to watch it.

Yes, you are right when you say that the character's owners hope to benefit by leading to more potential customers. But clearly they don't have any power to insert their IP into other products. The product owner has the final say, because any decision that is made has to benefit the company in some way. What matters more to Nintendo: Their product, or someone else's product?

@Ulysses Nope. You have it backwards. Explain then why Negan is in Tekken 7, why Geralt is in Soulcalibur 6, why the Ninja Turtles are in Injustice 2, and so on. What products are those games trying to promote? And why do the developers take a great interest in how these brands from other companies do?

You really have to think consumers are like robots in order to believe what you are saying. They're not just going to buy a game once they see that game's character in another product. We're not robots. We all have different tastes. I've already proven that using characters to promote other games isn't even that effective. There are just some fans who might not even care about Pokemon.

Instead of a small fanbase of Smash Bros. owners who may or may not like Pokemon, Nintendo can rather choose a Pokemon character to appeal to a larger, broader group of Pokemon fans that are more likely going to act when they see that Pokemon character in the product, thus buying the Smash Bros. product.

Pokemon might not be the best example here, but simply replace it with any other series, and you'll see what I mean. They make more money getting characters that they KNOW that many fans like instead of HOPING their current, smaller consumer base likes the characters they choose. What you are asking Nintendo to do instead is step over dollars to pick up dimes.

@Ulysses Or you just use the new character to sell Smash Bros. Without new characters, why buy the game? They do enough to market Pokemon and other franchises. Those Pokemon fans who buy all the Pokemon games anyway wouldn't see an incentive to buy Super Smash Bros. Ultimate without a character like Incineroar. And I don't need Incineroar to remind me that there is a new Pokemon game. If I'm not interested in Pokemon, Incineroar won't make me.

@Grumblevolcano And didn't even catch on in the West for 10 years after that. If there are some Smash Bros players that don't care for the series now after they inserted a total of 7 characters, the results will still hold after the 8th, 9th, and 10th characters.

@Grumblevolcano Not even that is true. Smash Bros had nothing at all to do with Fire Emblem's sales. Fire Emblem Awakening was not tirelessly shoved down people's throats by a Smash Bros. game in order to sell well. The demo helped it sell well. And even then, Splatoon already beat Fire Emblem in lifetime sales. You want to promote a game? Release trailers & market it. You'd reach out to more Consumers that way than just those that own one other game.

So you think that a spot in Smash Bros is an incentive to make their title for the Switch? Publishers don't play games like this. If they want to make their game for the Switch, then just do it! It's a lucrative enough platform where you don't need Nintendo to have to beg you.

@Grumblevolcano Where do people get this idea from? Choosing characters for the purpose of marketing other games over actual gaming icons is like stepping over dollars to pick up dimes. There are some Smash Bros. Consumers that just don't care about Seri like Persona. Putting a Persona character is not going to flip a switch in their minds and make them buy some new Persona game.

@Ulysses Why

does Pokemon need help being "promoted"? Where do people get this idea from.

@DavidMac Why do all the third party characters just NEED to market another game? They already are marketing DQ 11.

@manu0 Well if they were just going to gut support of the other platforms it would defeat the purpose of why they even bought the company.

@manu0 Minecraft was a multiplatform game even before Microsoft bought out Mojang.

@SniperGaming Sure, who says that the studio didn't expand and train more animators?

@Heavyarms55 Many people would tell you that the opposite is true.

Then they'll turn around and make Cuphead 2, & make you get the new XBOX in order to play it.

"Still, the recent Belmont content in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has us hopeful that new Castlevania games could well arrive on Switch."

This makes zero sense.

"THIS IS WHY THE BELMOUNTS ARE IN SMAS BROS!1!!1"

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