Former Epic Games CCO Donald Mustard has explained why Fortnite was never able to add a Nintendo representative like Samus Aran as a playable character.
Smash is a nintendo franchise on a nintendo platform. Allowing outside IPs in, is completely different than lending your IP out to others. Nintendo is super protective of their characters.
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But they’re happy to have characters like Snake in Smash?
But isn’t that the opposite scenario? (Someone else’s IP on their platform)
What, you expect Nintendo to care about a double standard?
Snake was actually on nintendo consoles with the first Metal Gear
Logical consistency isn’t really Nintendo’s thing
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you fuckin dork, lmao
Smash is a nintendo franchise on a nintendo platform. Allowing outside IPs in, is completely different than lending your IP out to others. Nintendo is super protective of their characters.
Why is that a problem? Their a business, they aren’t required to be consistent regarding others IP vs theirs. Each is an isolated brand decision
snake is not a nintendo character
Last time Nintendo did that we got the wonderful CDI games. Hotel Mario anyone?
Rare Nintendo win