In other words, while Bayonetta wasn't necessarily the overall winner of the Smash ballot, she was the most practical and realistic character out of all the top candidates, making her the ideal Smash guest. At the end of the ballot, the winner was PlatinumGames' Bayonetta, who was apparently the most requested character in Europe, as well as a leader in North America. In the end, Nintendo would pick a winner among the candidates, then put them in Smash.Īlthough Masahiro Sakurai and the late Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata didn't reveal the entirety of the poll's results, they explained to Smash fans that Nintendo carefully weighed each character based on how realistically they could be licensed and designed for Smash. website where players could enter any character they liked for several months. In April 2015, it opened up a public poll on the Super Smash Bros. For the last character, however, Nintendo wanted to hear what fans were interested in. Melee nostalgia via Mewtwo and Roy and making exciting new additions such as Cloud Strife. The DLCs added some great characters, generating Super Smash Bros.
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for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U were the first games in the series to have DLC guest characters, expanding the playable roster after the launch of the game. RELATED: Why Sora Was Likely So Difficult to Get Into Super Smash Bros. It's an interesting part of Smash history that apparently affects the series today, and could continue to be impactful in the future.
Those Smash fans who got into the series through Ultimate may not know about or remember the Smash ballot, so it's worth revisiting. As old as that ballot was, it seems Nintendo held onto the data and used it to inform its DLC choices for Smash Ultimate. While explaining Nintendo's decision to put Sora in Smash Ultimate, Sakurai mentioned that Sora was the winner of a Smash ballot that Nintendo ran in 2015 to determine the last DLC character for the fourth Smash game. After watching iconic figures join the latest game one by one, Kingdom Hearts fans may have thought that the sun was setting on Sora's chances, but it turns out their support for Sora mattered after all. Sora is a fitting conclusion to Smash Ultimate's DLC run because tons of Kingdom Hearts fans have spent years expressing their hope that he'd make the cut and join Smash. Ultimate director Masahiro Sakurai officially revealed the game's last guest characters: Sora, the main protagonist of Square Enix and Disney's Kingdom Hearts series.