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HaruKazuhira wrote:I legit don't know what to expect anymore lol

Herdanos wrote:

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Smash Bros. series boss Masahiro Sakurai revealed today that Sora actually won the fan poll for Nintendo to explore future character DLC options back in the Wii U/3DS era - though the results have been kept secret until now.

Memento Mori wrote:It's a JRPG character with a sword like it always is.

jiggles wrote:From the looks of things, Disney weren’t on board with Sora’s inclusion. Everything about this addition appears to be exclusively from the Square side of the games. No Disney characters, music, artwork. The Mickey keychain on his keyblade is all you get, and that’s only because it’s part of his character design.

jiggles wrote:From the looks of things, Disney weren’t on board with Sora’s inclusion. Everything about this addition appears to be exclusively from the Square side of the games. No Disney characters, music, artwork. The Mickey keychain on his keyblade is all you get, and that’s only because it’s part of his character design.

jiggles wrote:From the looks of things, Disney weren’t on board with Sora’s inclusion. Everything about this addition appears to be exclusively from the Square side of the games. No Disney characters, music, artwork. The Mickey keychain on his keyblade is all you get, and that’s only because it’s part of his character design.

OrangeMKN wrote:

HaruKazuhira wrote:I legit don't know what to expect anymore lol

Congrats!

shy guy 64 wrote:

jiggles wrote:From the looks of things, Disney weren’t on board with Sora’s inclusion. Everything about this addition appears to be exclusively from the Square side of the games. No Disney characters, music, artwork. The Mickey keychain on his keyblade is all you get, and that’s only because it’s part of his character design.

You’d probably have license them separately and they’d probably cost more

Tomous wrote:

shy guy 64 wrote:

jiggles wrote:From the looks of things, Disney weren’t on board with Sora’s inclusion. Everything about this addition appears to be exclusively from the Square side of the games. No Disney characters, music, artwork. The Mickey keychain on his keyblade is all you get, and that’s only because it’s part of his character design.

You’d probably have license them separately and they’d probably cost more

Without a doubt they'd have required separate licensing but the possibility might not have even been on the table if Disney didn't want their characters in a weird Japanese fighting game. Which they probably didn't.

shy guy 64 wrote:

Tomous wrote:

shy guy 64 wrote:

jiggles wrote:From the looks of things, Disney weren’t on board with Sora’s inclusion. Everything about this addition appears to be exclusively from the Square side of the games. No Disney characters, music, artwork. The Mickey keychain on his keyblade is all you get, and that’s only because it’s part of his character design.

You’d probably have license them separately and they’d probably cost more

Without a doubt they'd have required separate licensing but the possibility might not have even been on the table if Disney didn't want their characters in a weird Japanese fighting game. Which they probably didn't.

disney nearly made a fighting game once

Herdanos wrote:I'm really surprised Disney have allowed it TBH.

Obviously for several decades now Nintendo have been solely in the games business, but across their entire history they've been known to explore other markets, and they've often said how they don't see themselves as a videogame company competitor to Sony and Microsoft.

There's a major Mario movie in development, they primarily target their content at a young audience though it's enjoyed by adults too, they recently released an app that allows you to stream TV shows on their own device (Pokemon TV on Switch), they comfortably have enough IP for an expanded universe, there are Nintendo theme parks... so there are arguable parallels that already exist.

Disney have been around a while too, so I would have expected them to be keeping half an eye on Nintendo as a potential competitor in the future, not a collaborator now.