Minecraft
Today ’s proclamation thatMinecraftcharacters will be coming toSuper Smash Bros. Ultimateas DLC was the outcome of at least five days of talks between Mojang andNintendo , according to one Mojang employee . For the last six years , Mojang has been a subordinate of Microsoft , after a monolithic $ 2.5 billion learning deal .
Smash Bros. serial creator Masahiro Sakurai revealed today thatthe next DLC forSuper Smash Bros. Ultimatewill add characters and a fresh point fromMinecraftinto the game . Steve , Alex , Zombie , and Enderman will all be playable graphic symbol , and an impressive , blockish new degree will join the plot ’s roll . Sakurai will be disclose even more details about the upcoming expansion in a showcase this Saturday , October 3 on Nintendo ’s YouTube television channel .
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While the proclamation may have seemed to come out of nowhere for viewer , it was evidently the result of a long behind - the - scenes negotiation between Nintendo and Mojang . Posting to Twitter after the DLC ’s proclamation , Minecraft ’s original product director , Daniel Kaplan , expect fan to estimate how long the deal had been in the works . He later on reply to another variance on Twitter about the issue , saying that talk for the DLC start at least five years ago . That would put the initial discussion ofMinecraftcoming toSuper Smash Bros. Ultimateright around the same time that ontogenesis on the game set out .
Of course , now thatSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate ’s next DLChas been revealed , its insatiable fans are already speculate on what it has in computer memory after that . One persistent rumor from early last year claimed that characters fromMinecraft , Dragon Quest , Ninja Gaiden , andDoomwould all be added toSuper Smash Bros. Ultimateas DLC at some point . In the nearly two years since , the game has in fact addedMinecraftandDragon Questfighters to its card , exit some to get their Leslie Townes Hope up that the unlikely crosswalk fromNinja GaidenandDoomcould actually be in the works .
Whether or not Ryu Hayabusa and Doomguy ever show up inSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate , the announcement ofMinecraftDLC look like it will didder things up in the game in the meantime . While all thedetails of the new stageand characters are yet to be reveal , the promulgation showed some unique mechanics - including , of course , building - coming along with the new characters . That seems to indicate thatSuper Smash Bros. Ultimateis getting more willing to really change up its formula as it get further from release , which may be a good sign for thing to come .
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Source : Daniel Kaplan / Twitter
