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.
But they’re happy to have characters like Snake in Smash?
Snake was actually on nintendo consoles with the first Metal Gear
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.
But isn’t that the opposite scenario? (Someone else’s IP on their platform)
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
What, you expect Nintendo to care about a double standard?
Logical consistency isn’t really Nintendo’s thing