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Gardevoir and Tinkaton got it.
Always have been a huge fan of the fighting game fan since having played Tekken 3 back during my childhood when I first played it on Arcades and the Playstation and since then, I had gotten in to the likes of Street Fighter, King of Fighters, Virtua Fighter, Marvel Vs Capcom, Guilty Gear, Mortal Kombat, SoulCalibur, Darkstalkers etc.
Will say that I will agree with you that Final Fantasy X is also my favourite Final Fantasy title to date still in which I've also been a massive fan of Nobuo Uematsu's music work for the game as well.
Meowscarada and Eevee
Source btw: https://www.resetera.com/threads/na...ill-come-to-ps5-and-switch-2-as-well.1079067/
Like Cash Banooca
I'm starting to get the feeling that Microsoft is planning to leave the console market entirely just like how Sega left in the early 2000s.
Yep, that is exactly what is happening lol. Xbox as a console manufacturer and competitor to Nintendo/Sony is effectively over and they're just gonna survive as a big multi platform publisher like EA and 2K.
Cash Banooca coming soon to Soup Smack Bras for the Snitch Too.
Them also mentioning CyGames still gives me hope for something Dragalia Lost-related, as slim as those chances are. I miss it everyday.
Huh. You think that means we'll see Halo on the next console? That'd be interesting.
I get the feeling this could potentially be the direction Microsoft could pretty much be heading into and shift their focus from being a console manufacturer to being a multi platform publisher.
I think there's something that goes underdiscussed with this kind of thing; unlike SEGA, Microsoft absolutely does have a future in the gaming space outside of just making physical console boxes or going multiplatform. Their big thing for the last decade or so has been streaming, and the idea of Xbox being everywhere - including your mobile phone or your computer - is something they seem to have already been pushing... so I could see that as a valid "exit strategy" of sorts on top of continuing to produce a few games here and there as a third-party publisher. That's just my two cents, though.
I think it'd make a ton of sense too, and to be honest, I'd say Kunio's something of a dark horse pick. If anything, the only real barriers in place against his inclusion are probably whether ArcSys find themselves more interested in promoting a more "active" series like, say, Guilty Gear, and whether the next Smash game starts leaning away from third-party picks because of the difficulty of licensing things for Ultimate... but Kunio's a solid pick who I think would make a ton of sense. Then again, it could just as easily end up being Misako over Kunio... and in a similar vein to Akira's assist trophy being his polygonal form, I can totally see Kunio in his most iconic appearance in pixel form as an assist trophy of some kind.
I think the idea of "Microsoft is dropping out of console manufacturing" is maybe a little misleading, based on everything reported it seems like moreso that Microsoft will let third-party companies create consoles using the Xbox OS and branding. You would look at the consoles available and see, say, a Lenovo-produced Xbox, an ASUS-produced Xbox, etc. It makes sense because that's the tactic Microsoft always uses. Windows Surfaces exist but you can also order a Windows HP or DELL laptop or such, either way some money is going to Microsoft. It's effectively how they've dominated the PC space. It will always be advantageous for Microsoft to still sell Microsoft-produced Xboxes, they just won't be the only Xboxes on the market, and that might end up being effective, it's hard to say though.
Getting ahead of myself thinking about DLC already, but I personally don’t feel like it would just be him. Microsoft has a wealth of properties under its belt now and much like Banjo / Steve, there’s a lot of range in appeal, genre and aesthetic where I don’t think one should necessarily shoot down the other.
tbh when I say that Xbox as a console manufacturer is "effectively" over, I really just mean that they're done being a serious competitor to Nintendo and PlayStation lol. Like they'll definitely make funny niche hardware like what the rumors are saying, but ultimately Xbox as an actual third competitor as we knew it since 2001 is pretty much over now.
I don't really think it's that unlikely. A multiplayer game like Grandblue Fantasy Relink for Switch 2 would be great for the first year, add characters over the course of that first year and pair it with a new Dragalia Lost for mobile, and we could really see a resurgence of the IP.
All two of them? Very likely.
Yeah, I’m most interested in RARE and Blizzard, personally. I grew up playing RARE’s games on Nintendo consoles so they’ve always felt like honorary Nintendo characters to me. Rash, Fulgore, or even Joanna Dark would all be great Smash choices both due to their legacy connection to Nintendo and they’re just cool. I also played StarCraft and WarCraft 3 in high school and I’ve always loved Blizzard’s character design and lore. Illidan and Kerrigan would both offer a ton to Smash and have such unique designs that would really help them stand out.
Steve I kind of feel like being a base game character will be the only way for half of those people who crashed Twitter going "WTF STEEV IN SMESH" will actually get a chance to play as him, since not everyone buys DLC even if they approve of the characters. And they'll at least know ahead of time about what gimmick they need to implement into every single stage.
I don't know why but for a minute at least I thought they already had three for some reason lmao.
I don't think Famicom Detective Club was that high of a barrier. Sure, the 3rd(technically 4th) game was a surprise, but I didn't think remakes of the first two games was an almost-impossibility compared to something like Another Code.
Honestly, yeah, I'd second this. It's weird; I've never been a huge fan of the idea of guests being treated as anything more than "guests", but I feel like it's not entirely unlikely that the Smash series' trajectory is going to end up being more of a "gaming crossover" roster with heavy Nintendo bias. In cases like this, I totally see where you're coming from - Chief's all well and good, but there's a pretty significant number of Microsoft characters who feel genuinely pretty fitting in some way or another - be that fan demand (Crash), historical significance (Doomguy), or just straight up interesting moveset potential (D.Va.)
Honestly, pretty high for their own reasons. Banjo might be a little less likely than Steve, but the nostalgia market is totally enough on its own to justify his inclusion, given it's essentially signal-boosting the Banjo games and allowing Microsoft to be like "yeah, we're offering this game through Game Pass/NSO!" Plus, there's an element of fan demand there, so keeping them around just feels like a good call on all sides. And, well, Steve is Steve. Minecraft Steve. I genuinely think it's more likely that his entire moveset would be changed to make it less developmentally-intensive than that he'd be outright cut.
I think it’s likely or at least for one of them
In comparison to Japanese content it will be more sparse, but I imagine it will be a step up in quantity (at least proportionally) from Ultimate. Third-party content tends to expand gradually (number of fighters, fighters per company, fighters per series, costumes, companies involved, roles for third-parties, etc), and I don't think this will be an exception. Especially given how untapped that category is comparatively.
Not to mention Sakurai outright saying that licensing was pretty easy for Banjo, so like I've been saying for a while now, being super easy to license and the number 2 most popular Ballot pick after Sora? That's such a low-risk, high-reward character to bring back I'd be astounded if it didn't end up happening.
I'll admit I actually believed that one myself.
