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I do agree here except that Samus, Fox and Kirby have all been present in some way on the box art from the beginning. To me it would feel weird to leave them out.
I like you're ideas, but I don't think they'd put a third party character on the cover (maybe on the back of the box, but what do I know?).In order to decide what we think the new ones should look like, we should examine the previous ones to truly feel the art put on the boxes.
Super Smash Bros.
American:
Japanese:
Super Smash Bros. Melee:
American: WARNING LARGE
PAL:
Japanese:
Super Smash Bros. Brawl:
American:
Japanese:
And if those exclusive Smash For character artworks are anything to go by, I know the next box arts are going to look good.
Now, with that said, Mario, Link, and Pikachu MUST be present first and foremost on the cover. No exceptions.
Next, it has to be dynamic. Of course, having the characters just standing there isn't too much to look at. So I think the characters have to be fighting.
So if Link, Mario, and Pikachu are present on the cover, there has to be another character to join the fray, one who represents the newer characters in this game. Let's pick Mega Man. So Mega, Link, Mario, and Pikachu are all fighting on the cover. If we go the SSB64 route, we can have other characters dueling in the background.
However, I think the next goal is to highlight the colors. Wii U version should deal with deep blues, and the 3DS should deal with bright reds. Whether it be a tint, or the background color, it doesn't matter. But there needs to be a contrast between them. The version of the game is determined by the color, that's what we're going for.
And continuing on the idea of color, perhaps the fourth character should also change with the color and version. Wii U = Blue, therefore Mega Man. 3DS = Red, therefore Villager.
Now for the logo. All the American versions of the box arts typically put the logo near the top of the box. However, I'm very much digging on the Japanese Melee boxes, and feel the logo should go somewhere in the middle. That way, all the character artwork wraps around it. I want the customer's eyes to cascade all over that box. "Who's fighting on the top? Who's fighting on the bottom? What's that on the left side?" You get what I mean.
And that's pretty much what I think it will be like. If you've seen the character artwork that accompanied Villager or Rosalina & Luma then you've seen what I think the box style will be. It must look crisp, clean, it must contain bright colors, and needs to be Highly-Defined. Have you seen Mario Kart 8's box art. That is the definition of... DEFINITION.
Is he? His own games don't seem to sell - I just can't see him helping to sell somebody else's if he can't sell his own.
His series has acheived over 80 million copies sold and he is well known outside of gaming communities.
no guest characters in the front of the cover... at most, in the back; putting them in the cover feels like a desperate appeal to make the consumer noticing the game. and besides everything, Nintendo is selling a Nintendo All-Star fighting game.
Average consumers don't care about the Nintendo part. They care about the All-Star part. Most people don't know who owns Sonic so his inclusion would seem no more desperate then Mario's.
Wut? .. Who buys Smash Bros. knows it is a Nintendo fighting game... any other character non-Nintendo is a bonus. Why Mario is as desperate as Sonic? He is the Nintendo's mascot,.. and the game has him since the beginning, and he's kinda the main star of this series as well, he's Nintendo's Ryu. lol. ... If the certain "average consumer" doesn't care about the Nintendo part, he's getting interested for less then 5% of the content of the game. :T
And his last game sold 600k in a year. It's sales were pretty poor - he may be an iconic character, but as far as a promotion goes, he's clearly far less saleable than he once was.
You've missed the point of my post.
Sonic is way to "try too hard",.. he's not part of the purpose of the game, he's there because he's a special guest, .. and because this, he shouldn't be in the front of the cover with the Nintendo characters.. that's it. You think was nice that Darth Vader and Yoda being in the front of the cover of SoulCalibur IV? Banjo & Kazooie in the box art of S&SASR in the Xbox360?... was terrible... seems that the company is trying to sell something that doesn't even means much in the game...
This is just fiction pulled from nowhere to support your point. Nintendo is synonymous with video gaming. Most non-gaming adults will refer to videogame consoles or handhelds as Nintendo's or Gameboy's. Nintendo is the single most recognizable name in video gaming history and to state that anybody outside of gaming knows nothing of Nintendo is small minded and ridiculous. To those people, Nintendo IS video gaming. Your point is moot.
I agree. Nintendo is synonymous with gaming but gaming is not synonymous with Nintendo. Microsoft and Sony are far more recognizable brands associated with gaming.
Good but why would they keep starter newcomers a secret. And characters are all over abit much, and even though Mario is the main man, he shouldn't be that big.
I'm just gonna ask something...would you really miss the chance to have the mascots of three of gaming's biggest companies on the front cover of the next Smash?
yes; 'cause the other two mascots (three, hopefully) are guest characters, and not really the main purpose of the game; so, only Nintendo characters should stay in the front of the box; .... Brawl's box art was great, and still had some recognition for Snake and Sonic in the back of the cover.
You do realize that Megaman's as important to Nintendo as a lot of characters on the roster? He's actually more important to Nintendo than most of them, same for Sonic.
What?? What you are saying is nonsense. And you made me lol at "I don't like arguing so I won't comment on this thread anymore" you are not gonna comment cause you know you are wrong and you ran out of nonsense
I'm perturbed by all of this talk of Nintendo, PlayStation, and Xbox brand recognition. I guess maybe ten years ago, my grandparents called all video games "Nintendo" or "Game Boy", but nowadays, my experience has been that almost all non-gamers over 30 refer to any video game as an "Xbox" or "PS" (rarely "PlayStation", like they're trying to say PS3 or PSP, but only remember the first two letters in the acronym). I once had an economics professor use Xbox One and PS4 as examples of competition regarding market share, but forgot until she jogged her memory that Nintendo still exists, and even then, assumed the Wii was still their primary console until further reminding herself that the Wii U was a name she remembered, but wasn't familiar with.
I realize that my experience doesn't necessarily represent the world at large, but it's actually been pretty jarring. The way most non-gaming people I know talk, it's as if they think Nintendo has gone the way of Sega, and doesn't even make hardware anymore.
Anyway, on the main subject of this thread, I'd like to see box art closer to Melee's than to Brawl's, since I liked how Melee's (and 64's) box art actually had the characters...you know...fighting. But I do think the Brawl art was very nice and sleek. Preferably, SSB4's will be unlike any of the previous games', and be even better in its own way. Most anything's better than "stock renders pasted around the game's logo".
Right, but how much of that 80 million was from the last, oh, 3 years, as opposed to other Nintendo characters?
Why don't you work with gamexplain..In order to decide what we think the new ones should look like, we should examine the previous ones to truly feel the art put on the boxes.
Super Smash Bros.
American:
Japanese:
Super Smash Bros. Melee:
American: WARNING LARGE
PAL:
Japanese:
Super Smash Bros. Brawl:
American:
Japanese:
And if those exclusive Smash For character artworks are anything to go by, I know the next box arts are going to look good.
Now, with that said, Mario, Link, and Pikachu MUST be present first and foremost on the cover. No exceptions.
Next, it has to be dynamic. Of course, having the characters just standing there isn't too much to look at. So I think the characters have to be fighting.
So if Link, Mario, and Pikachu are present on the cover, there has to be another character to join the fray, one who represents the newer characters in this game. Let's pick Mega Man. So Mega, Link, Mario, and Pikachu are all fighting on the cover. If we go the SSB64 route, we can have other characters dueling in the background.
However, I think the next goal is to highlight the colors. Wii U version should deal with deep blues, and the 3DS should deal with bright reds. Whether it be a tint, or the background color, it doesn't matter. But there needs to be a contrast between them. The version of the game is determined by the color, that's what we're going for.
And continuing on the idea of color, perhaps the fourth character should also change with the color and version. Wii U = Blue, therefore Mega Man. 3DS = Red, therefore Villager.
Now for the logo. All the American versions of the box arts typically put the logo near the top of the box. However, I'm very much digging on the Japanese Melee boxes, and feel the logo should go somewhere in the middle. That way, all the character artwork wraps around it. I want the customer's eyes to cascade all over that box. "Who's fighting on the top? Who's fighting on the bottom? What's that on the left side?" You get what I mean.
And that's pretty much what I think it will be like. If you've seen the character artwork that accompanied Villager or Rosalina & Luma then you've seen what I think the box style will be. It must look crisp, clean, it must contain bright colors, and needs to be Highly-Defined. Have you seen Mario Kart 8's box art. That is the definition of... DEFINITION.
Yep, at least Mega Man really is important for Nintendo (I'm not gonna agree with Sonic, sorry); but still, Nintendo not owns those IPs, and they're releasing a fighting game with Nintendo All-Stars, with few guests; which represent less than 5% of the content of the game.. putting them on the front of the boxart is like telling a lie for the public; --
