The Great Gonzales
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Why do a tournament at all then? By that logic Nintendo are already working against themselves.
Is this really going to be a "tournament" in the strict sense - that is, is it really about which player is the most skilled? I doubt it. Given that the players probably won't have had more than a week with the game, so winning won't really prove anything. The players themselves probably won't take it too seriously. The point is to show off everything the game has to offer.
emb said:I hear this idea brought up a lot, but I've never really been able to relate too it. I can understand the very casual players that avoid video games in general because they're hard. But the audience for Smash Bros. is primarily people that enjoy video games, considering it's basically a homage to every Nintendo game they can squeeze in. Seeing a fast, flashy technical game would excite most video game players. It's only when they get the controller in their hands that they would realize how difficult it is and get discouraged. But that assumes that Smash 4 is fast paced though, which I don't think will really be the case.
But if it looks too fast and technical, then people might think it'll be too hard to just pick up and play. Imagine if your first taste of Smash was seeing a top-level Melee match. I have trouble keeping up with them sometimes, and I've been playing Smash since the N64, so I can definitely see someone new to Smash being unimpressed.
theprodigy said:which does not make sense, given that this group of people presumably won't care much about the gameplay and just want to see the new characters/features/whatever (and also this game isn't going to pick up many people who haven't played Smash before, but this is a separate topic)
They won't care about the finer points of the gameplay - hitstun, whether there's wavedashing, etc. - but if the game looks totally inaccessible, that could give them pause.
Remember, Nintendo doesn't need to market this game to people who've been playing Smash for years, as those people will buy the game no matter what. They want to hook newcomers and people who played Brawl a little bit and are debating whether to buy the new installment.