I also love Serperior. Snivy FTW. Too bad he was eh in game.
If there were that many Nintendo fans bad with money, the Wii U would be doing minimum Gamecube numbers.
Yes I mostly agree. Except for the Wii U costing more but anyway Smash has already established itself in most minds as not being an iteration-type game and pulling something like that now will not go smoothly.
The following is purely an example -- the characters could obviously be different depending on how SSB4 shakes out.
With that said, imagine:
An update to the WiiU version, released 12-16 months later, in the spirit of Super Street Fighter IV or Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
(Neiteio's original ideas, cut for space)
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I think people would probably buy it. They could lower the vanilla version's price to sell the new version for the full $60 at retail, while offering it at a lower price on the eShop as a DLC update for those who want to "upgrade" from vanilla.
Would this hurt overall sales, or sell more overall? I don't know. How has Street Fighter fared as a whole?
First, I don't think that there are any must-have newcomers among your list. Inkling
maybe, but no under-represented franchise like Advance Wars or Golden Sun or something to make it really stand out. Plusle + Minun and Tetra is really not high up there. I would also think that additional Mario, Pokemon, and Zelda reps would draw irritation from a not insignificant portion of the base
Beyond that, it just sort of looks like content bloat. This is definitely an idea geared more towards the casual player IMO, contrary to how iterations of Capcom games are usually meant for the hardcore. Ten additional characters (bringing the roster likely to the 60's, Ten-ish accounting for six newcomers and a couple Brawl cuts + Mewtwo,) 50ish Stages total?
That's another problem IMO. That's a lot of development time and money for an expansion that's going to sell at a lower price. And I really don't think the audience for an expansion is a foregone conclusion. Even the progression of added content throughout the SF4 series was more conservative between each one.
K. Rool needs to be a clone of Rosalina & Luma, with his crown replacing Luma.
If this actually happened, as much as I would be happy to see K.Rool I would have a hard time not laughing. Then I'd be irritated about half an hour later.
Oh god, I feel so grimy now.