GR: Blockbuster franchises like Call of Duty, Dragon Age, and Halo each have new entries or collections on stores shelves this month while family friendly brands like Sonic and Adventure Time deck retail shelves.
Masahiro Sakurai, the director of Super Smash Bros., explains why he believes online play isn't a good fit for the series.
I feel bad for Smash fans. Those guys have been trying to maintain the scene active for 20+ years and get nothing but hate from Nintendo.
Sakurai explains how he and Nintendo still don't understand how the internet works.
FTFY
Exactly, online play would be wonderful on Smash if Nintendo gave a crap about their online services. To be fair though, Nintendo's online offerings would be great if it were 15-20 years ago lol.
I've always said that Nintendo is either innovative and ahead of the curve
or 20 years behind, no in between
I’m sorry, but if a game is MP then there’s no f*cking argument that can justify no online MP. What he says about competition being different from just playing with friends shows me how out of touch these people are.
It’s not until a new generation that understands things steps in to clean-house that we’ll see some evolution here.
His argument is nonsensical. "You'd be limited to just playing people from your region". As opposed to being limited to playing people FROM YOUR COUCH!
What I don’t get is how do you not have competition and experience the same issue if you have a friend that’s way better than you?
It's a big fighting game so online multiplayer is a must. Competitive smash is the only thing I see fun in these games anymore asides from the big character reveals, singleplayer is laughable and you ain't gunna have people over for couch gaming much.
If Nintendo makes a new smash, it needs a huge evolution for singleplayer/couch play to be enjoyable for me any more. But we all know they'll just do a deluxe edition for their next console lol. They really need to up their servers as well.
I can't imagine Nintendo producing a better smash game than ultimate. Roll it forward with a deluxe edition maybe with an extra character or two and call it a day.
Some other developers can try pushing platform fighters to the next level, because I don't think Nintendo is up to the task.
They already created a better smash brothers game than ultimate when they created melee
he sounds more like is trying to justify Nintendo ineptitude to create a proper network infrastructure in order to Smash Brothers work properly online.
Pokémon!!!!!
RIP Wallet, lot's of good games this month.
I'm probably the only guy outside of Europe who will be buying Football Manager 2015.
DEAR GOODNESS!
On top of finally buying my Xbox One SSO Bundle, with Forza Horizon 2 and Halo MCC There's a Pokémon game coming out too!!!
My wallet is reeling, I still haven't bought Super Smash Bros for my 3DS! :(
AND Lego Batman 3 is coming out this month? Forget money how will i have enough time!! :o
I'm glad I'll have GTA V (waited for PS4 version) to keep me entertained until I see how much the other games are really worth. Dragon Age looks good but for some reasons, including EA's involvement, I'll wait and see what horrors the future holds. I do hope it turns out great though since I don't have W3 yet.