Quite honestly, I have no idea.  Power Stone 2 was 4 players, and honestly, I enjoy it more than smash brothers.

Power Stone, according to wikipedia was released in arcades less than one month after the 1st smash brothers.  Power Stone 2 has a 2d vertical scrolling section in one stage, and another horizontal 3D scrolling section in a different stage.  The gameplay is heavily weapons based, but we did have fewer buttons on the dreamcast.  Smash brothers has more attacks, per character, but all I'm trying to say is, we don't need to copy smash brothers.

What I didn't like about power stone 2, was the lack of more attacks for the characters.  The second special attack transformed characters had in the first game is missing in the 2nd, and a lack of stages.

But, if playstation all stars had turned out similar to power stone 2, it wouldn't have been considered a smash brothers clone, and thus, the need to do things differently for the sake of being different (while copying the style, mind you, as I have just as much fun with smash as I do PS all stars) they wouldn't have felt the need to have a system in which only supers killed.

That was obviously put in for the sake of being Chocolate, to Nintendo's Vanilla Ice cream.  Same thing but a different flavor.  But, it just turned out to be an annoyance.

The power stone series is an old thing from Capcom.  Fighting game pros worked on PS all stars.  Unless they came late to development late, or didn't have much say on how the game went on, I wonder if the idea of making it similar to power stone (which is basically smash in 3D) ever came about.

From Microsoft's pov I don't know but Sony surely has more than a dozen well-known characters which are more relevant than Rosalina (which I had to look up).

I mean... look at the original Bioshock, it was literally an X360 exclusive for the first year of being on the market, it wasn't even on the system that considered him an All Star.

One thing that has to be said about PSASBR was that intro was pretty awesome the way it was put together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Q_ioOdQgU

Interesting

TBH I thought they would have done it with Golden Eye remake. I so wanted it to happen..

XBOX dual shock vs Wii Remote.

Buttons v Motion controls

who will reign supreme

yes powerstone is awesome people have been begging capcom to make a new one for a long time. 

I agree completely.  I have no interest in Smash or a Smash clone but I might be interested in a different style.  

Let's be even more honest and admit that Smash is full of characters most people won't know.  I certainly don't.  Playstation could easily do the same.  Smash has maybe five or six "stars" with their own games, characters that most players would know, then past that it's a lot of supporting actors and third party characters.  I don't really see an issue.  

Exactly. That's the reason why I think Sony could do the same with their IP's.

That intro is really amazing (probably the best part of the game), especially the music is on point!