http://www.gamespot.com/events/gamescom-2013/wonderful-101-originally-had-cast-of-all-star-nintendo-characters-6413388/

Wonderful 101 originally had cast of all-star Nintendo characters

Director Hideki Kamiya says original version of the game planned with roster of all-star Nintendo characters and other famous extras.

Platinum Games' Wii U title The Wonderful 101 was originally conceived with a roster of Nintendo characters and other famous gaming headliners, producer Hideki Kamiya told Videogamer today at Gamescom.

"Originally, I got an order from the president of Platinum Games, Tatsuya Minami, asking me to create a game idea that had an all-star cast of Nintendo characters plus characters from other games and that's how the project started," Kamiya said.

"When you try and incorporate many characters with high popularity, there are fans who like certain characters more than others," he added. "I thought how I could satisfy everyone and make everyone happy and I came up with the idea of why not having everyone displayed in the game at the same time. That's where the idea was born."

This version of the game that would later become The Wonderful 101 was put on hold, Kamiya said. When Platinum Games did return to it, Kamiya said the game was changed to feature various original hero characters instead of established icons like Mario or Zelda

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Ow.. wow.. that would be something different.. or awful...

Probably wouldn't have been as good, but would have sold better.

Sounds right.

Definitely would have sold better

It also avoided millions of internet threads and posts about Nintendo milking their characters and not making new IPs.. the Internet survives yet another day..

This is also true.

Would have given more sales... and it would have been pretty awesome.

It's ironic that this sounds like the story of Super Smash Bros in reverse. That game was originally a fighter similar to The Outfoxies with random characters, which Nintendo decided to slap into a mascot fighter to boost its appeal.

I hate to say it but a game like that would have been a no-brainer purchase for me.

But would Nintendo have let them make it? I doubt it.