Probably because those are skins for avatars. In Fortnite, they portray them as the actual characters coming to the game, with the introduction trailers and such.
I guess when you narrow down like this. You could get the guy from Disaster Day of Crisis, but at that point, why even bother?
Rocket League wasn't owned by Epic at the time if I recall. So Epic didn't have a say in that. Assuming you're referring to the Mario and Luigi hat that's only visible to Switch players.
Prime Remastered and Dread were most likely both in development. And perhaps even Prime 4 before it got rebooted. That we didn't know about the games back then doesn't mean they didn't exist.
Yup. Also I saw that Fornite and RL have different systems in how they distribute content. So that might also play a role.
Yeah, that's also possible. Either way, Epic wouldn't be able to say to Nintendo "now you have to allow us to show these skins everywhere" since they likely have contracts in place for these deals.
I’m genuinely curious: Is there any proof that Fortnite skins increase the sales of the games they come from? I would suspect that these skins just bring in existing fans of the series, so the only sales increasing are those of Fortnite’s digital marketplace.
Can't compare Nintendo with those companies. They are moments away from abandoning consoles for PC. Nintendo is still all in on dedicated consoles and have no plan B.
It's all just for a bit of cheeky non-canon fun though, isn't it? There's all sorts of characters in Fortnite, including this bloke from a book:
if it helps they're completely gone from the game now
They'd lose consistency I imagine. Brand management really tries to go hard on the consistency and maintaining some level of prestige when they got it.
not really? Apparently the Chun Li Skin didn't really increase Street Fighter sales
I mean not really, Rocket League was more or less an indie game by an indie developer when that deal was struck — Epic swooped in relatively recently to swallow it whole
If even a few hundred people try a Metroid game as the result of a Fortnite skin, the gaming world automatically becomes a better place. Not because of any brief, negligible sales boost, but because more fans means more enthusiastic peeps joining us in anticipation of Metroid Prime 4. There could potentially be dozens of them.
Yeah, there's different views to think this in, and as a fan it'd be totally cool.
What if they try Other M though?
I'll take it, New Great Posts Drew. Better than nothing!
I say this as a big Smash fan:
This is what we could have had.
this is what they took from us
another big difference is that Dragon Ball is good whereas Metroid is not. After all Japan cares about it, but not Metroid
Nah Goku fits.if smash added goku then it would definitely be on its way to become ip sludge like fortnite or those anime girl gacha games which are more numerous than stars in the universe by now. but even then I expect a theoretical goku in smash to be a love letter to dragon ball with all sorts of cool little touches and banging remixes so at least there's still cool shit there vs the modern crossover standard of a bunch of 30 dollar skins in a battlepass.
this is what they took from us
broke: have some Marvel / DC bros work on Metroid
I'm convinced this has less to do with not knowing where Chun Li is from and more to do with how ugly SFVs models are ....
This is the kind of incidental branding stuff that happens that makes Nintendo very protective of their IPs and who they choose to associate themselves with.
