I can't say i was hyped either. If i had more friends come over and play games like the good old days then i would be. but those days are long gone

jay just killed the thread

I bought it, loved the demo and it is the closest thing to Smash on PS3. Still hyped.

Surprisingly, this.  I was/am hyped, but I haven't payed full price for a game since... 2008.  I'd rather wait and pick it up for £25-£30 in a couple of weeks, by which time it will have been patched to fix any bugs and probably balanced a bit better too.

I suppose you could argue that I'm clearly not that hyped if I didn't want to get it straight away, which may be true.  But I have trouble understanding why people buy a game at launch when you know it's going to be 25% cheaper and probably patched to be improved just a couple of weeks after launch.  If I had tonnes of money I'd probably do it, sure, but I don't.  £15 saved by buying late is a lot of money to me!  Meh.

There's a large group of Playstation fans that's really happy this game exist. Even if it doesn't have all of their favorite characters. However, when has internet attention ever translated to sales? There are still people that say "Oh, that game's out?!" or "woah! What is this!?" when they see me playing this.

Aren't all fighers doing terrible lately btw?

Street fighter vs tekken, Tekken tag2, DOA, Soul Calibur, DBZ games etc. Can't think of the last successful fighting game. May be wrong though.

I have no interest in this kind of game, be it PS All-Star or Smash Brothers.

Oh! As for what made me buy it!

I was sold at "playstation characters" and "fighting game".

If you took the images of the most well know characters in the game and started asking people who they were most people would have difficulty naming more than one or two characters, and the best you could hope for is a handful of people who could tell you the names of the games these characters came from; in contrast, I suspect the vast majority of people would be able to identify most of Mario, Luigi, Pricess Peach, Bowser, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Link, Princess Zelda, Kirby, Starfox, Pikichu, and Sonic with quite a few being able to identify Wario, Diddy Kong, Gannon, Samus, and Solid Snake from Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

Ultimately, the difference is that Nintendo has sold (something like) half a billion copies of games including characters from the Mushroom kingdom, (something like) 200 million copies of games including characters from Pokemon, (something like) 100 million copies of games including characters from the Zelda universe, and most of the other characters came from games in series that have spawned multiple decades with tens of millions in sales; and many of these characters have had decades worth in merchandising and appearances outside of videogames (with a few having dedicated television shows). Sony's characters come from franchises that mostly didn't exist in 2005, have sales that are tiny in comparison to most of Nintendo's series, and have never made any impact outside of their games.

I bought it. I just beat the "campaign" on hero (easy) with Daniel and I must say, it gets boring pretty quickly. But I can see myself going back to the game and play it for short bursts. I just wish the singleplayer was more diverse and packed, I don't really like to compete since I suck at the game. Hard.

Edit: I bought it digitally for PS3/Vita (crossbuy).  By the way is it intended that my brother can play the games I bought on my account? I bought and installed the game on my account and he can switch to his own account and start the game without problem and we even can play together. It's pretty cool.