Solid Snake isn't any different than Sonic in that sense... your counterpoint isn't even logical.

Sonic's "low tier" status is because he's a cross-over character... SSB is primarily a mashup of Nintendo franchises; naturally any non-Nintendo franchise will be "lesser".

Hm, personally I'd say the E-Tracker is reminiscent of the 1920's rather than a mix of the 1960's and late 19th century. To be fair, I have never set foot in gentrified Brooklyn, Williamsburg, etc.

Apologies for the misinterpretation then; if that's the case it still seems a bit irrelevant.

Wait wait wait. Have hipsters taken the word "retro"? Because if so, we need to take it back ASAP.

Before a driver can get their license in London, they have to pay a fee, traverse through a series of archaic procedures, then memorize every street in the city in a process that can take up to seven years. And that's before they buy their own $60,000 cab.

The inclusion on IP not owned by Nintendo doesn't make it any more or less difficult. The point is that the nature of the content is vapid; there is no real story to SSB. Sure, character backstories could be used as plot devices but that doesn't necessarily make for a good story. If anything, the varied backstories…

You're continuing to compare apples and oranges.

You can't seriously think the distinction between two distinct (and largely unrelated) industries isn't significant... The anime industry generally doesn't receive funding anywhere close to that of either Hollywood or video games and isn't going to throw off the kind of returns that would justify the licensing costs.…

Not at all; I think you're just failing to identify the significance of such distinctions.

The anime industry is not the same as the video game industry. If we're talking video games, cross-overs aren't rare by any means; JRPGs have been doing that for quite a while now...

It isn't inherently more difficult; it's relatively more difficult due the the significant discrepancy in funding. o.o

Keep in mind that Wreck-It-Ralph was a Hollywood film with tons of financial backing; pulling off an anime of the same caliber in terms of "cross-licensing" would be significantly more difficult.

World War Blue may be the closest we ever come to that... :(

Aside from Sonic already having starred in a television series, the issue is obtaining rights to the various intellectual properties.

The data's encrypted and stored locally unless you use Dropbox to sync data across clients, so it's pretty secure. :P

In... her pants?

The Sakura segment was especially... nice. o.o

Ah~ That was ingenious!

At least SWAT didn't come into your house. :3