There's been a slew of Nintendo news this week. Funimation wants Goku from Dragonball Z in Super Smash Bros for Switch. Sega teases a new racer in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, and Suda51 begs for a Killer7 port on current generation platforms." -- Nintendo Enthusiast
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.
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.
Including Smash Bros in a list of fighting games, is like including GTA in Racing games.
From IGN: "Following Yakuza series creator Toshihiro Nagoshi and No More Heroes creator Goichi Suda, popularly known as "Suda51," Capcom veteran Hiroyuki Kobayashi announced his move to NetEase Games back in August this year. Today, NetEase revealed Kobayashi's new studio as GPTRACK50, located in Osaka. At Capcom, Kobayashi worked as the producer on the Resident Evil series as well as Devil May Cry.
“I was at Capcom for 27 years. During my time, the company became a lot bigger and a lot of new staff came in,” Kobayashi told IGN in an exclusive interview.
“I worked on a wide array of titles at Capcom, but I wanted a new challenge,” he explained. “Of course, it’s not like Capcom didn’t allow me to try out new things, but now that the company is a lot bigger, things are different from the way they were when I joined the company as a freshman back in 1995. Everything now needs to be approved and things just take more time to get greenlit. I’m the kind of creator that wants to be able to deliver a new experience while it still feels fresh, and I had been thinking of creating my own studio to make that possible.”"
The designer of the original Super Smash Bros. for the Nintendo 64 shows us the prototype that started it all.
Killer 7 was an interesting title, and idea, but I still don't see many people buying it.
Players would probably be more open to it now though, considering the changed gaming landscape since the title came out.
Now if Suda made a sequel, although doubtful, I'd be one of the first in line.
I seriously hope the guys from HAL Laboratory including Sakurai are not considering adding shoenen anime characters like Goku in. Please don't. There are plenty of Nintendo and some third party characters I'd like to see appearing in the roster before turning Smash into a non-video game chaotic fighting fist by adding him, Frieza, Ichigo, Naruto, Shrek, Darth Vader, Spongebob, Jimmy Neutron, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Ed, Edd, and Eddy, Jack Sparrow, James Bond, Ronald McDonald,etc.
Eff all that. I want another Power Stone.