| infamous8 said: Sony would have about 10-14 characters they could use.... They should get CAPCOM to do it as a new series of Capcom vs. Sony... or atleast license the SFIV engine from CAPCOM and tweak it to their liking. |
No they have way more than that. I listed 14 games in the OP that could provide characters and half of those games could bring in atleast 2 or more. Not to mention some characters from games that I didn't list or licensed characters like the ones I mentioned in the OP(cloud, snake, etc.). Camcom vs. Sony would kind of defeat the whole purpose of Sony making the game. It's to showcase Sony characters for it's brands and any additional characters would be just to bolster the line up with popular characters. Sony could easily come up with about 25 characters for their game without licensed characters. The first Smash brothers only had 12 characters. The amount of characters is not the problem.
They could even have cool power ups like the Heavenly Sword or some of Ratchet's guns.
However I wonder if Sony is afraid to marginalize some of it's main characters. I wonder if Sony wouldn't be willing to have Kratos get his as kicked by a mere mortal in Drake or one of it's RPG characters.
As for it being a blatant rip off. Yeah it will probably draw some heat for that but if they make it diffrent enough it shouldn't really effect the success of the game.
