ElGranCabeza said: This is gonna suck and sell horrible and I'll tell you why: 1) No recognizable character worldwide. Kratos is not that famous in EU/Japan, Drake not famous in Japan, and everything else not famous anywhere
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What's with the pessimism? I think if it's done well and has a good marketing campaign it will do brilliantly! Who wouldn't want to see Sackboy take on Kratos!
As for your no recognisable characters worldwide opinion, I disagree. God of War 3 has sold about 1.4m just in EU, it's only been out 87 weeks and that's just people who bought it new, if you consider how many people have bought the game used as well it must have sold closer to 2.5m or maybe more (who knows), which is more than enough to make it Kratos a recognisable character in EU for Playstation gamers. It also sold over 140k in Japan which is great for a western game and is enough for Kratos to be a fairly recognisable Playstation character in Japan.
Uncharted 2 has sold very well in Japan too, it's at about 160k, and again that's just new copies so imagine how many people bought it used too, enough for Drake to fairly famous in Japan too.
God of War, Uncharted, Gran Turismo and LittleBigPlanet are all successful worldwide. Sony's other ips not so much but there's still a few that are reasonably successful, Killzone, Ratchet & Clank, Infamous, Jak and Daxter, Heavy rain and Resistance. Then there's other fairly successful franchises Heavenly Sword, Sly Cooper, Twisted Metal and Shadow of the Colossus. Anyway, not every franchise needs to be incredibly successful for 'Sony's Smash Bros' to be a success, a lot of these games have very dedicated and loyal fanbases, so if all the loyal fans from all of these franchises go out and buy 'Sony's Smash Bros', it will be a great success!