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I would be dead without Smash Bros

I kind of prefer the original blue and red, honestly. That's a personal preference, though. Hopefully this being light blue and orange will make it different enough to have a version in the future with a darker blue and a vibrant red like the Mario Odyssey Switch.

Reminiscing? I NEVER FORGOT! I NEVER WILL!!!

@rjejr Well, to be fair, it's not Geoff himself doing that; it's the press and media plastering his face when they cover this topic.

Thank goodness. I refuse to eat or drink anything unless it has Nintendo cobranding. I've been feeling light-headed for so long

Sakurai is not being unreasonable with this statement. Of course, when you take a single line and make an article out of it, even if you elaborate, people are only going to read that and not actually watch the full video. Never mind this statement wasn't actually said; this was translated from another language where the form and tone can be very different.

@Suuup The very first result for "Smash Con" on Google is "Register now for Super Smash Con 2023 August 10-13". You mean the Smash World Tour? People should research their statements

MGSV is a huge game... it would be quite amazing to see that able to fit in one package with two other full-scale games.

Striking while the iron is hot

This is your time, everyone. Nintendo is actually bringing back an obscure franchise everyone puts in their Nintendo Direct bingo cards. Now it's time for everyone who has constantly asked for it (including me) to BUY it so the decisions we want are supported.

OMG WE TOTALLY NEED A NINTENDO CINEMATIC UNIVERSE!!! SMASH BROS IS LIKE THE AVENGERS OF VIDEO GAMES!!!

No. Things take time to be done well. The first movie came out TODAY and already people are asking about a sequel. It's like a child writing their list for next year an hour after opening their Christmas gifts. If a movie is good, it should have its own time to breathe and be appreciated, and if you want a series to be good, you have to give it time to develop.

When something like this occurs seemingly out of the blue, there is probably a lot more going on than just a (in the grand scheme of things) small number of people complaining about the quality of the newest entries, especially when they have performed about on par financially with the others and there has not been a downward trend. It makes me wonder what has been going on behind the scenes that would cause this to happen.

Unless they had it last year, didn't check

MARVEL RETURNS

No no no! This isn't what tournaments are about! Smash tournaments are about watching the same handful of pro players win every time so you can make combo videos out of those LOSERS who dare to challenge them! By the way, look at this picture of M2k I just found; isn't he so adorable? Oh M2k!

Shame on you, Nintendo. Don't you know the CEO is supposed to keep all of that and then lay off 10% of the company to celebrate record profits? It's like you're not even trying to be as incompetent as possible!

I want the game to cost $10

There's probably the same amount of sugar in both of those things. In fact, I'm betting the cupcake has been genetically engineered to make the sugar concentration as high as possible down to a molecular level.

Wow, great rationalization from the comments here. "Good riddance" "Nothing of value was lost". Jesus Christ, you people come off as so petty. I didn't watch the videos but it's pretty forced to take them all down like that. It's like when there were articles about Reggie Fils-Aime's book being published on this site; lots of "Who cares" and "Good riddance" comments as if you people weren't sharing the gif of the train in space with Reggie's face on it every time there was a Nintendo Direct announcement.

That main character looks a lot like that guy... hmm... who am I thinking of? Oh yeah, Bud Knight from Bud Lite!

This ***** is getting out of hand

As someone who is a die-hard Smash Bros fan who does play competitively, though not in tournaments, it always makes me sigh when there are articles like this. I can see a little bit of everybody's perspective and I also think that everyone involved is mischaracterizing the situation, and that isn't even taking into account how reporting on a topic will inevitably leave out certain details and create a "biased" report in one way or another.

It seems pretty clear that the CEO of PandaGlobal has been guilty of shady activity, though Nintendo continues to be perpetually Nintendo, so there's blame on both sides up top. On the bottom, the people talking about it are both likely to be wrong as well.

On one side, you have the hardcore competitive r/smashbros people who insist they are the "true" fans while only playing one mode and like 5 stages, often caring more about the people who play the game rather than the game itself. They will inevitably take this story to further their own narrative of "big, evil Nintendo hating the fans".

On the other side, you have a lot of people, a lot of them on this website, who view players who genuinely enjoy the game competitively as a rogue agent somehow "ruining" was what was "originally just a fun party game" (which I will stand firm in saying has always been a misunderstanding of the series).

It's always really nice to have a Nintendo promotional event like this, after so long without them. I can't wait to fill my Christmas (or XMAS) list with lots of great new Nintendo productz!

Oh my God somebody talked about this game

Rocco's Postmodern Nightmare

@RupeeClock I'm too relieved to care. In my mind there was a 90% chance that all of the characters were going to be "redesigned" to look like Despicable Me / Secret Life of Pets / The Grinch / every other Illumination movie, so having the town area look like the very accurate Universal Studios area is a very small concession to make.

I was legitimately going to do something drastic if you gave this a bad review.

People here seem VERY quick to chalk this up to "miscommunication"

I get that it's New York but you should have brought your son with you. It would have been a fun birthday memory.

Finally Metal Gear on Switch, hopefully. I also want to state how great it feels, as someone who became a hardcore MGS fan through Smash Bros, that Metal Gear is being reported on Nintendolife and not just Push Square

We're finally getting Mother 3, Metal Gear Solid 6, and Marvel vs Capcom 4. It's happening people

Never did I think a game could eclipse Smash Ultimate...

UNTIL TODAY

To those who are ABBA-haters, what is it like to not understand love, joy, and freedom? Underneath the veil of "cheese" lies a band full of unexpected maturity. To those who think it is nothing but Facebook-Mom soft listening, have you heard their songs about political prisoners during the fall of the Soviet Union, or the tale of the mythical Cassandra, or the final fading moments of consciousness before we die?

Surely, this will go down as one of the greatest games in history.

It makes me sad. Get your act together. Crack the hell down on it.

I can't believe Kojima worked on this game

If you look at the full article, it says that Chris Pratt's casting as Mario has gained controversy "due to the fact the actor isn't Italian." This is just complete and utter falsehood. People didn't like the casting choice because it is the most patronizing, stereotypically "Hollywood" thing that could possibly be done in this situation.

@Kage_M The idea that characters need to be chosen based off of how "faithful" they are to Nintendo hardware has always been a fan rule. Going on about how Square or Kingdom Hearts doesn't "deserve it" in some way is trying to moralize it in a way that doesn't really pertain to the mindset of the developers. I don't have any personal connection to Sora and of course I would have loved Doomslayer or someone like that as well, but to come to an article made 8 months later about this character that was a bonus and that extra time and effort and exceptional negotiation went into and the ONLY response is "who cares about this, it should have been MY favorite character" is just so immature.

@Znake Bad trolling attempt

Video Game Shadow Box did this years ago. I also saw an official Castlevania version of this same concept years ago. This is not the first time it's been done.

They're never funny enough for me to warrant watching

The more I read the comments on this website the more shocked I get at how surprisingly ignorant you people are

@Andy_Witmyer Some people have watched so much Ben Shapiro / Matt Walsh / Jordan Peterson that it infects their minds to the point that they're convinced EVERY negative thing that happens in the world is actually "fake news" or "blown out of proportion" or "taken out of context" by the EEEEVILLLL SINISTER LIBERALS with their victim complexes. If YouTube existed 100 years ago, we would see "Anti Child Labor Cringe Compilation" and a bunch of people talking about how "kids today are too pampered because they aren't dying in textile factories and how _____ group of people is trying to DESTROY AMERICA!"

We could see things as they are, recognizing both the good and bad of something we love, like Nintendo, but that's too hard. It's much easier to create a social boogeyman to blame everyone's problems on.

As someone who is about 60% through the book, I think it's a worthwhile purchase. I also think it would be a missed opportunity to view the book simply as a way to extract a few more pieces of gaming trivia to add to your probably giant collection of gaming trivia already while disregarding everything else said. The term "executive" has become pretty nebulous in its actual definition so it's great to see detailed examples of these spaces, what they actually do, and how someone may personally navigate these spaces. Well, the good executives, anyway. The ones who don't harass employees and then leave with hundreds of millions in severance as a reward. Reggie very clearly has a desire and passion for this kind of problem solving and based on what I've read, it's interesting to see his way of thinking, even if it is sprinkled in with a slight tone of self-congration.

All 39 people before me just wrote different wordings of the same joke

Look, you may have got shot in the leg at your job. So what? You're not dead. Stop whining and get back to work, people. I got shot at my job, so I'd rather make sure that other people continue to suffer too instead of none of us having to suffer. Kids these days, amiright fellas? #destroyedbyfactsandlogic

I kind of already spent $28 on the hardcover version before this was announced

I wish I could be a sexy young millennial like them

That's great man