I wonder if it'll be like smash bros or like a street fighter kind of game or dare I say Power Stone 2.

I don't know after thinking about it I don't really care much about Sony 1st party characters beside Spike, Jak, and Nathan Drake.

It took Nintendo 3 editions before had to add 3rd party characters and they only added 2. Sony better get some major 3rd party characters like Cloud or Snake because I'm not sold.

Except you don't seem to understand that M Tennis has nothing to do with main Mario games other than having Mario in it. It's like saying MK and M Party are the in the same series as main Mario games, and that's just ridiculous. Even 2D vs 3D mario is debatable

Nintendo would never ship off main series Mario to some other dev, and not even most of his spin-offs...

I think that's the major issue here, not how much each individual series sells, but how iconic they are and how much people actually like them

Even though some of Sony's IP may sell similar to some of Nintendo's lesser ones, They don't have the same iconic feel... Kirby for example >> Some guy from killzone, even though they both sell about the same lately

Examples of good iconic characters might be Kratos, Sackboy, Crash... etc, but I don't think they have enough of these to fill a 30+ character roster

After reading the entire thread (!) I'm more curious than ever to see what they come up with, I wonder if they'll use lots of 3rd party characters like some of you guys suggested (It'd be kinda strange but I can't think of a reason why they couldn't use non-Sony characters)

I hope we see something announced soon... Are their any conferences/shows coming up soon???

Sony has plenty of characters to put into a cross over game similar to Smash Bros.

Kratos, Sweet Tooth, Sackboy/girl, Jak, Daxter, Ratchet, Clank, Sly, Bently, Murray, Normal/Infected Nathan Hale, Nathan Drake, Young Nate, Kathrine Marlowe, Elena Fisher, Zoran Lavarevic, Chimera, Jan Templar, Sev, Dart (LoD), Rose (LoD), Parappa, Patapon Knights, LocoRoco blobs, Toan (Dark Cloud), Colonel Flag, Dark Genie, Max (Dark Cloud 2), Monica, Emperor Griffen, Leonard (WKC), Yulie, Princess Cisna, Cole Mcgrath, Free Realms Squirrel (lol), Hell even DC characters could be involved in some way (Batman!). Just name the characters I would like to see from Sony developed games.

Let's not forget that Sony also has a powerful relationship with Namco (having published or co-published numerous Namco titles outside of Japan). Final Fantasy VII and X were under Sony ownership.

god, Nintendo fanboys treat this like they have exclusive rights on a mashup fighter...

I wonder why there was no upcry when Square-Enix made Dissidia: Final Fantasy, which is basically the same, just Squeenix characters only.

I see no upcry here, just people wondering if they have enough iconic characters to fill a game like this, which is a legitimate question

@Bolded: You mean FF characters

The problem I see here is not the amount of characters, it's the perfect balance Nintendo had with SSBB.

Sony could easily include over 50 playable characters, but would their fighting style differ enough? Would it be possible to win with every character? What does it do to be on par with SSBB, or even better, to trump it?
That's the questions everybody should ask.

I think if Nintendo can pull off such balance, then theoretically it is possible, it just depends on the quality of the developer making the game

Anybody got an idea about who's making this?