Did Pokemon prevent Developers from making JRPGs? :P

So you get my point. Original question is not thought through.

I don't think so, but I guess 8-player Smash is a slap in the face for Battle Royale.

Yeap! Question of the thread is silly indeed. PSASBR2 sequel (in terms of Sony making one) is/was all up to the first game. They should give it anothe go imo, but who knows, the game probably lost a ton of money.

I highly doubt that. It wasn't really a high budget game and was made by a new studio. Also, many of the characters were like in-game ads for recent/upcoming games.

Not saying it was very high budget but looking at sales, especially when majority of Vita version sales came in for free (cross buy) and the game dropped in price from $60 to $40 for the entire holiday and shortly after to $25. 

But who knows, also last comment is sad. I really agree with the ad of characters. Oh well

How? If anything it would make another one strive to be even better. Personally I hope they just shamelessly copy SSB. I want the "Throw off the edge" mechanics and every feature SSB has except with Spyro and Crash. If they can't do that then they shouldn't even bother.

I don't see how 8-player battles affects PSAS in any way, shape or form.

That being said, I don't think a sequel is being planned, as much as I want it to.

"I'm new to the game.  I have won several times against my friends"

Ok.  But you're not a 10 year old child or new to fighting games in general.  You clearly have experience with fighting games if you played MvC2 about a decade and a half ago, so your experience is different.

"I can't say much about the kid thing..  But, I remember playing Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 on dreamcast.  It was a new game, so you know what I did?  I picked Cable, I mashed heavy punch, and when I got meter, I mashed the partner A&B buttons.  Why?  It was a 2 button super, and a laser came out.  You cannot tell me that a 1 button super is hard.  Any fighting game requires knowledge of your character to some degree."

Supers in MVC 2 take up about 70% of the screen which is a big difference.  And, even if you can't land that super (let's say you're playing someone like Colossus) you're not totally screwed.

"You can't guess that.  There isn't a button you can go to, to do it.  You have to know it. "  At this point, you're clearly talking about high level play which doesn't really tie into talking about new players.  The problem is PSASBR is not marketed towards fighting game fans like MVC, at least not exclusively.  It seems like they're going for the broad Smash audience.  

Besides, you don't HAVE to know how to eternal slumber a character on switch in.  It's not like you literally can't win without knowing how to hit this move.  In PSASBR you literally can't win if you don't know how to hit your super.

"In any fighting game, if you do an attack inappropriately, it's not going to work."  And then you move on and try another attack.  In PSASBR if you miss a super attack, you're back to square one.  Missing your super just once puts you at a huge disadvantage.  If you don't know how to use it skillfully (combo into it) or if you're a character who can't combo into it easily (that cat thingy for instance) you're done.  Miss more than one a game, you're totally ******.  So, the skill gap between someone who has played the game for a little bit and at least practiced landing supers and someone who is totally new is enourmous.

"Everyone else uses Nariko, Ratchet, Jak, Nathan, Raiden and Heihachi. "  I can't really comment on competitive balance, but I felt that Raiden was head and shoulders above the rest of the cast.  It was like playing MvC Akuma in street fighter 4.  Too fast for the other characters, too many easy super setups.  I could be wrong though, cause I only played about a month or so and I know they did some patches, but the game certainly didn't seem balanced.  I can't imagine anyone having success with Toro or Big Daddy for instance.

"My friends will sometimes do the same thing over and over again, because you're letting them get away with it."  Again, this is relating more to high level play.  What made Smash successful was that you could play it with the desire to learn and improve, or you could just enjoy it on a very casual level.  In PSASBR, it's too complicated to enjoy at a casual level (relying on combo strings and only 3 options to KO) and at a higher level it's unbalanced due to certain characters being way easier to combo into supers.  So, it's busted on both levels.  

I see you didn't read my post, then, which ended with "does not compute" to give you an opportunity to explain yourself.  Pretty unexpected coming from you.

(I mean, I saw the rest of your post, which is why it made so little sense that you were clumping games like Street Fighter into one group)

But regardless, I see your point now, and holy shit I couldn't disagree more.  Once a genre has been done once, it should never be attempted by anyone else ever again?  God no.

Competition is how this industry grew to be what it is today.  If only the original creators of every genre were attempting to better their own games, then we'd never get any progression.  They could just sit on their ideas forever because no-one else would be pushing them to try any harder.

A good foundation is that eternally.  Another company trying to make something better doesn't make the original foundation any less good.  But maybe, just maybe, they might improve on it.  Perhaps they won't!  But if they do, then it's better for everyone to have variety; choice and an evolving industry.

And I'm not saying innovation is bad.  But I think that innovation for the sake of innovation is just... silly.  Things should evolve because it's natural, not because they're forced to.