12-30-2015, 03:28 PM
(12-30-2015, 02:54 PM)Kosheh Wrote:(12-30-2015, 11:13 AM)Uncle Drew Wrote: I guarantee a lot of the games like Earthbound or Fire Emblem wouldn't even get recognized if it weren't for smash.
That's pretty much how powerful of a marketing tool Smash is, you think you know Nintendo because of Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, or whatever other big series nintendo has but you find out that there is a lot more behind them once you play Smash.
Yeah, that's...pretty much what Smash has been pushing for since day one, and I could swear this was stated by Sakurai in an interview. More than tout the greatness of Nintendo's existing franchises, it also raised awareness for the more obscure franchises Nintendo has and celebrates them globally. I'd probably argue that most of the new additions to Smash this time around (off the top of my head: Little Mac, Greninja, Duck Hunt, and Cloud) were added to further appeal to Western players - and while of course they're not as obscure as say like...Sukapon or K.Rool, they definitely raise awareness to classics from Nintendo's library [except for Cloud, but you probably figured out who that appeals to]
Like, a majority of the teenagers that are recme's age have probably never played the original Duck Hunt (and probably never will play it with the NES Zapper) but their inclusion in the new Smash game has probably raised curiosity to seek out and play the original game. :V
That is true, given that Duck hunt came out on the Wii U same time Duck hunt was confirmed in smash, then you have Little Mac and Cloud being there as well. Though I'd argue that Greninja's inclusion was more because the Pokemon company suggested it to Sakurai to give Gen 6 pokemon some representation. If it wasn't for that Mewtwo probably would have been pushed into the roster in the game when it came out a year and a half ago instead of being pushed to DLC, either way you look at it I feel that Mewtwo would appeal more to western players who missed him in Brawl (Then of course, who's to say that eastern players didn't want him back as much as western players? that's another subject)
Come to think of it being that kid who was born in '94 when the glory days of the SNES were at it's peak, I never really knew about a lot of other nintendo games until I got myself a copy of Melee and a gamecube sometime in 2004-05. That's pretty much what led me into retro gaming for awhile and that's how I came to try out the original NES for awhile.