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crissindahouse on 29 April 2012
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S.T.A.G.E. said:
d21lewis said:
It would be the worst idea, ever. I wouldn't mind a Gears of War (Epic IP) crossover with Halo or something where two or more similarly themed franchises came together but something on the scale of Nintendo's Smash Bros. just shouldn't be done. Nintendo's characters seem to be able to coexist together--remember the old cartoon "Captain N". Microsoft's characters just don't seem to have that. Maybe a bunch of Rare characters or a bunch of Twisted Pixel characters, but a company wide crossover? Hell no.


Microsoft barely has the any characters synonymous with them and famous enough to do it. Gears and Halo are the most famous characters built on the Xbox. The Fable character is so generic can anyone even remember his name? Microsoft should give full credit for a game like that Solely to Rare who have been making great characters since the NES era and call it Rare Champions or something. Microsoft themselves aren't at that level yet.

for me the sony characters aren't more famous than the microsoft characters. for me, master chief, joanna dark, banjo, conker, splosion man, kameo and so on are as famous as sly, kratos, drake, jak and ratchet.

i only played god of war and uncharted but i played all games with characters i mentioned from microsoft. you don't know them as good because you didn't play those games but you can say that even to a new character like drake. just ask people owning an xbox or wii but not surfing in forums like this after drake. they won't have a clue who that is.

a good friend of mine had the playstation and playstation 2 but bought the 360 then. he doesn't surf in interent forums like this. i could bet with you even when he plays videogames some hours every day (he is a little bit addicted) that he has no clue who drake is.

more people know the playstation characters because more had a playstation but for the n64 and xbox owners the microsoft/rare characters are as famous as the playstation characters for playstation owners. i would say only nintendos characters are famous on the whole planet, even for people who did never have a nintendo console. but just because they aren't as famous doesn't meant that the game couldn't be successful. if the sony game will sell like 5 million copies the 360 one could sell like 2.5 million or so which would be good. i have no clue how much the playstation game will sell but i think it will be very successful. maybe i'm totally wrong but this forum alone shows how much is going on since the announcement. more posts in one thread than halo, god of war and some other have together.

i mean, it's not only about the own charactes you need characters from other companies as well and there, nobody will  have a better collection if you do it right.