Smash provides a huuuuuge amount of free advertising for any characters included. Third-parties and second-parties alike would be crazy to pass up a potential Smash slot.
Foxtrot,
"Let me insult your tastes will promoting my own as sacrosanct."
What? You really can't argue opinions with... opinions (effectively, at least). You're entitled to your opinion about the list, but you need to realize just how stupid your reasoning for doing so is and sounds like.
It's the extrapolation that matters. If yesteryear's consoles sold over 80 million units in their lifetime, a few million pre-orders during the Holidays are rather insignificant. You can party all you want that the PS4 sold out of pre-orders, but, if it can't move more units because the PS3 outflanks it in nearly every department, then the console will start to fail. Using "it sold out of pre-orders, guys!!!!111!!!!11!" means nothing for the future of the console.
The Wii U sold out of pre-orders. Look where it is now.
Yep. Sony was originally contracted to help the "developer tyrant" integrate CD-ROMs into the Nintendo 64.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301...
While the game's graphics are undoubtedly good--even this early in development--I really don't want this game to rely on gimmicks (like those in the trailer). The pirate ship mechanics looked... awful, for lack of a better word.
Didn't most of those companies stop publishing many of their games on the Wii after 2009? The console died a few years after release, and even the original third-parties weren't all that successful on the Wii... they were just /there/.
I don't remember off the top of my head, but didn't most of the third-parties only jump on the Wii bandwagon after it became super popular and in-demand?