Recent content by Argos

A port of some kind or another seemed inevitable as soon as they started skirting around clarifying the exact nature of the exclusivity. ActiVision isn't going to make anything exclusive to one platform I think, just doesn't make sense for a company of that size.

Crash is definitely more popular than Rayman in Japan, though I guess we'll have to see how they take to remake to see if there's still demand there (it releases next month over there). Naughty Dog's own timeline says the first Crash got at least 500,000 sales while Crash 3 made over a million...

Yeah, the release and subsequent success of the N-Sane Trilogy really makes a much better case for Crash. A lot of people (including me!) would have assumed that Crash's appeal had been significantly lessened by years of less-than-great games before being entirely absent for almost a decade, but...

Nintendo's financial report for last quarter came in, the most important result for Smash speculation being that ARMS sold over a million in its first couple of weeks, which is a pretty impressive result. I doubt it will ever be the smash hit Splatoon is/was, but I think that's enough to...

Obviously wouldn't count Sylux out considering how clear Tanabe has been that he has plans for him in future Prime titles. I hope he gets a redesign though, there are good aspects to his design but there's also a lack of focus that screams "generic action figure" to me.

I mean, Marvel vs Capcom 3 literally didn't have Megaman in it so I'm not sure where the idea that Smash is more random or unrepresentative than other crossover games is coming from.

I've predicted Toad in Smash for every entry so far but I can't be wrong this time. Captain Toad is: 1. His own character in response to "he's just a generic species!" folks 2. In Mario Odyssey 3. Has been a captain for for ten years 4. Ready for adventure Lock it in.

I'm increasingly thinking we might be getting a "Smash 4.5" building off of 4 rather than a straight port or entirely new entry, though I could easily be wrong. Either way, no way it's coming out this year, obviously. Nintendo has a hard enough time producing enough Switches as it is, they need...

OK, I did a bit of cursory research to try and figure out which, if any, Dragon Quest characters are most likely. It's maybe a bit too much work to put into a scenario that has mediocre-at-best chances of succeeding, but my day was free so screw it. It became pretty clear pretty quickly that...

Dragon Quest is definitely in a weird position. I could easily imagine Smash not feeling "complete" over in Japan because of how popular the series is. I'd imagine it's more associated with Nintendo over there than Final Fantasy is over here as well considering FF only blew up here with VII...

The thing Crash Bandicoot has going for him more than anything else is I think his games are still among the biggest Western-published games in Japan. He's definitely not my first choice (or second, or third, or fourth, or...) but he definitely has some clout. Like, I'm not sure Japanese people...

I think assuming choices like Ryu and Cloud were big busts is something you only do when you're mostly checking out Smash speculation boards where most of us are upset that the characters we've been repping since the Gamecube era didn't get in. I mean I'd prefer Captain Syrup to Cloud, but I...

Man, the Bomberman news lately has been so encouraging. Even if he doesn't make it into Smash it's done pretty great for a $50 Bomberman game in 2017 in both the US and Japan at least and that bodes well for the future of the franchise. After the initial reception I worried that Konami's...

I'm wondering whether it wasn't supposed to be #2 at first but they've changed it over to #3. If we're going to trust Toto's tweet there seems to be something that's changed for the new Smash to go from a launch title to a no-show a month after launch. Wouldn't be the first time a rumored "port"...

Ever since Smash started accepting third party characters my mind immediately went to the "man" trinity: Megaman, Pac-Man, Bomberman. The time has come to complete the set. Heck, Rayman can come too if he wants.