Prediction: They'll put Mario skins in Splatoon, and it will ruin it

[the_dengle]

ktay95 said:

the_dengle said:
I doubt it, Mario isn't a squid.

Not yet he aint =P
Im sure they can make him a Blooper when he transforms and use FLUDD, the game was made for this.

Nintendo has a really weird thought process. Miyamoto himself said this in an interview with EDGE:

"There were heated debates over who the main player character should be. Whether it should be Mario, or a squid."

First of all, the debate was between Mario OR a squid. The designers understood that to make Mario the player character would rule out squids. There is no mention of making Mario a squid for the purposes of this game. Then --

"But at the same time, we had some worries. If it were Mario, we wouldn't be able to create any new IP."

Here Miyamoto says one of the reasons they axed the Mario idea was to make the game a new IP purely for the sake of making a new IP. That doesn't sound like the sort of logic that would result in him saying never mind slap Mario on it anyway. That would be a complete reversal of position.