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Super Smash Bros', 'Donkey Kong' pre-orders discounted at Newegg

XMNR: Newegg opened up a 72-hour pre-Black Friday preview sale on Monday, Nov. 25 that includes pre-order deals for Super Smash Bros. on the Nintendo 3DS and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze for the Wii U along with a couple of PS3 game pre-orders and PS Vita too.

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The Ten Best Donkey Kong Games Ranked

LLC: "With Donkey Kong Bananza being one of our most wanted games of 2025, we decided to look back at the series history and create a top ten Donkey Kong games list."

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Mortal Kombat hits 80 million sales, here's how it stacks up against competition

NetherRealm confirms its Mortal Kombat franchise has sold over 80 million copies in the last 30 years, and here's how it competes against other fighters.

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Kakashi Hatake756d ago

Don't care what anyone says, Smash isn't a traditional fighting game. May as well call Powerstone and Playstation All Stars fighting games. They're more of an arena fighter /party game.

NotoriousWhiz756d ago

You don't have to care what anyone says. It's not a traditional fighting game. But it is a fighting game.

gerbintosh756d ago

Not according to the creator, Sakurai. Link below

https://www.eventhubs.com/n...

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CrimsonWing69756d ago (Edited 756d ago )

I mean what makes them an arena fighter than say something like Tekken? Because there’s platforms?

NatsuXTheMaxspeed21756d ago

because theres a bunch of pokeballs and other random stupid stuff on stage that you can use at your advantage and flying ultra super power ball that you got to chase on the stage to get your ougi LMAO.

CrimsonWing69756d ago

@NatsuXTheMaxspeed21

I mean what it sounds like is they took a fighting game and “added” unique mechanics to it to me.

When I think arena game I think of things like Spawn: In the Demon’s Hand or Virtual-On.

Smash to me is a fighting game, they have fighting game tournaments for it. It just doesn’t jive with me to call it “not a fighting game” because you have poke-balls and platforms or because it has 4 players at once duking it out.

Power Stone I’d consider a fighting game as well. Hell, if you google what it is everyone calls these games “fighting games”. So yea, they’re fighting games…

Immagaiden756d ago

What’s next, you gonna say Mario Kart isn’t a racing game?

NatsuXTheMaxspeed21756d ago

oh its a racer but its not a realistic one like GT or Forza. only kids check for mario kart and smash .

Immagaiden756d ago

I didn’t say it was realistic. I said racing game. Does Burnout not being realistic make it not a racing game?

What does a demographic have to do with a genre? Do kids playing CoD make it any less an FPS? You see how ridiculous bringing up that subject is?

repsahj756d ago

"Only kids and kids at heart check for mario kart and smash".

-fixed!

FallenAngel1984756d ago (Edited 756d ago )

Nobody said it was a traditional fighter. Everyone acknowledges it as a platform fighter

PSASBR & Power Stone are fighting games, the former being a platform fighter and the latter an arena fighter

gleepot756d ago

You're correct, it isn't traditional. It's a fighting game though.

repsahj756d ago

Because if cute and lovable characters are fighting it's not a fighting game? XD As long there's a versus fighting, it is a fighting game.

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MrNinosan756d ago

Including Smash Bros in a list of fighting games, is like including GTA in Racing games.

NotoriousWhiz756d ago

I hate to break it to you but smash bros has fighting game tournaments so it qualifies.

MrNinosan756d ago

"and here's how it competes against other fighters"

No, Mortal Kombat doesn't compete with games like Smash Bros? It's a different genre for a different audience.

NatsuXTheMaxspeed21756d ago

Anybody can host a tournament in their garage it doesnt mean it qualifies.

NotoriousWhiz756d ago

I'm going to assume you're not part of the FGC. However, I am, and I can tell you that there is a ton of overlap between people who play smash competitively and those who play other fighting games competitively.

Now for casuals, there is a lot less overlap between the two for sure.

PapaBop756d ago

While technically true, Leffen comes to mind, FGC and Smash community have always had a rocky relationship.

Thundercat77756d ago

And yet, If Smash Bros was over 80 million, you wouldn't be complaining. On the contrary, you would be bragging about it.

Immagaiden756d ago

Bad comparison. You do a LOT of things in GTA outside of a car while fighting is what you’re mainly doing in SSB

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Ezio2048756d ago

Given the volume of games released, I would say Tekken has sold the best.

lodossrage756d ago (Edited 756d ago )

Yeah, that's a good point. Most of these games have parts to the franchise outside of traditional fighting games.

Like for example, with Mortal Kombat, do Special Forces, Mythologies: Sub: zero, and the Kollection count?

With Tekken does death by degrees or the tag tournament games count?

With Street Fighter, are we counting all the iterations of 2, 3, and 4? how about the ex series or alpha series?

There are a lot of variables at play here

Ezio2048756d ago

Even after including Tekken Tag, they have less titles compared to all MK and SF games.

CS7756d ago

Yeah, i realized that too. Very interesting.

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Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze almost brought back Enguarde

The creative director of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze has revealed that Enguarde almost made it into the game.

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SimpleSlave867d ago (Edited 867d ago )

I'm glad they didn't. I heard he was asking for way too much money to reprise his role as a mascot. Which is ludicrous since everybody knows Rambi is the real star here. Enguarde is just a second stinger at best.

The audacity of this fish! SHAME!!!