Trombone Champ: HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER!

100% its copium from Sonic fans that got a mid game after all these years

After seeing how Sonic fans behaved over that stupid Dunkey video or Stephanie Sterlings review or any negative or mixed review they deserve to constantly play only bad games. I don’t care about the Game Awards or Sonic but they’re somehow worst than JRPG Weeb fans.

Right. So players can vote on blind and long suffering fandom instead of the games that are actually well made or good. It’s just weird to reward a development team and publisher for consistently letting their fan base down.

It’s player’s choice. Whatever game can get the most votes is worthy of the award. Has nothing to do with game quality or design.

When I saw that shit during a Skill Up review where Sonic Frontiers was right behind the likes of God of War and Elden Ring I did a fucking spit take. I mean if we’re going to split hairs, I’d argue that Genshin Impact is far more deserving of any award over Sonic Frontiers.

Yep, and “vote for X because we can’t let Y win” is pretty much equally as illegitimate.

Well, this is just how any election works. 

Front Mission 1st did not come out in the US in 2003 for PlayStation. Front Mission 3 is the only Front Mission game that came out for the original PlayStation in our region. (I worked at Software Etc. and GameStop during that time frame, and I would own it if it did.)

Sure, if you are an idiot and cannot read.

They literally list the evidence in the Twitlonger and multiple TOs from different organizations have since corroborated it. 

This is incorrect. Nintendo explicitly assured the SWT team over the course of twelve months that the circuit was something Nintendo actively supported. They only pulled the plug on it literally days before the final tournament. So no, it is not expectable or average for Nintendo to do this simply because the company…

Lol, pretty sure Nintendo would be happy if the competitive Smash scene vanished off the face of the earth.

I don’t know that it much matters, but your comment about Font Mission 1 coming to North America by way of a PS1 port made me curious. Looking it up on Wikipedia (hardly a definitive source), it seems that the PS1 port was Japan exclusive, though the US did get the Nintendo DS release. It’s certainly possible that…

That’s not quite the correct take here—there’s more nuance than that.

Panda does not have the legal capacity to shut down the tournament, they needed Nintendo to do that. Nintendo could’ve just said no.

I’ll never understand you Nintendo fans. This is a company that actively hates you. They’re not just telling you they’re showing you. They’ve been showing you for minute now.

Nintendo seems like a company where the left arm has no idea what the right arm is doing. As if the marketing team is unaware, or unable, to influence the legal team on this decision — something that turns free publicity that you can’t buy into bad publicity that you should never want. The success of Smash is contingen…

Nintendo when they see a fan or grassroots project to cease-and-desist:

IP law is so irreparably broken. People are going to these events to see your game specifically, it’s not like a movie; they are going to see the high-level actions of the players.