@nintendoboy16 said:
@Sword-Demon said:
What do you mean by Nintendo influence? because none of those characters really have anything to do with Nintendo, and a few of them are seen as mascots for other companies/systems that were/are in direct competition with Nintendo.
Plus, if they were to include Bayonetta, I think marketing would be a big reason for that. Just like when they included Marth and Roy in Melee to promote the approaching release of Fire Emblem 6 (it's is also the main reason the series came to NA). Pit being included in Brawl lead to a new Kid Icarus being made. People are begging for a new Earthbound and F-Zero when they barely held any interest before.
Smash Bros has huge marketing potential; People see new characters and want to see where they came from. Nintendo could very well be looking to generate more interest in Bayonetta.
How about being on their platforms long enough? Snake had four games (MG1 on NES, MG2: Solid Snake on NES, MGS/Ghost Babel on GBC, and MGS: Twin Snakes on GameCube), Sonic had countless (starting with either SA2 on GC or Sonic Advance on GBA), Pac and Mega Man have had games on Nintendo platforms since the NES.
Besides, what sense would it make for her to be on Smash even as a marketing tool considering both versions of Smash come out later than Bayonetta 2? By then, Bayo 2 will have been lost to the void.
yes, but they represent other companies and systems more so than they do Nintendo. Snake has been on damn near every system out there and has a couple of Playstation exclusives; plus, MGS5 isn't coming to Nintendo. Sonic has been Mario's rival since the dawn of console gaming - the Sega/Nintendo rivalry being comparable to Sony/MS today, it's like throwing Master Chief into PSASBR. Pacman was simply ported to nearly every system ever made, I wouldn't call that "Nintendo influence." Megaman is the only one that belongs; he had his start with Nintendo and all of his games have been on Nintendo systems, many exclusive.
They're there because they're icons of gaming, not icons of Nintendo; and you say it makes more sense for them (Megaman aside) to be in a Nintendo mash-up than someone from a Nintendo exclusive being published by Nintendo themselves?
Last I checked, Bayonetta 2 is set for an October release, with no date specified; but seeing that the 3ds version of ssb is releasing on October 3rd, I somehow doubt that Bayonetta is releasing before it. But either way, Marketing works retroactively. Personally, ssb got me interested in a bunch of games that had been out for years: Metroid, Star Fox, Kid Icarus, F-Zero, etc.. Why can't ssb generate interest in a game releasing right around the same time when it can generate interest in games that have been out for years?
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