Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4451749-20140111172408/@comment-4696205-20140221212303

I agree with Slappy.

Mega Man, including most of his next generations like Mega Man X, Mega Man Battle Network, Mega Man Zero, etc, was mostly released on the Nintendo franchise, and he was a long regular since the NES to Super NES generations. Sonic was Mario's greatest rival since the nostalgic console wars back in the 90's to the early 2000's, so Sonic has a great relationship with Mario and Nintendo, which they're both rivals but friends.

Crash is mostly prefered to be a Playstation character as he was a mascot of Sony franchise back then, despite there's no longer a Playstation series mascot anymore since it kept changing from Parappa the Rapper to Ape Escape, etc. I don't even understand why he didn't join Playstation All Stars...probably he was no longer mentioned as his games are dead or so (no offense but we haven't heard any sequels of his games since then). People will also say Banjo IS a Nintendo character, but no longer after Rare moved to Microsoft as Nintendo didn't buy his license, which now he belongs to Xbox franchises. Besides, he appeared as a special guest character back in Sonic and Sega All Star Racing for the Xbox version, so this tells he's no longer going back to Nintendo.

Waluigi may have his possibilities, but I wouldn't think Eggman will join as playable, even Sakurai won't bring any second characters Sega, even Capcom too. But if they bring Eggman in it, then probably he'll be an Assist Trophy, riding on Egg Mobile and shooting lasers and rockets or dropping bombs from air. Pac-Man may also have his chances too since his games were released many times for the Nintendo franchise, and maybe nobody mentions him because his game mostly released in Japan than US, since Pac-Man is a lot more popular among retro to modern fans in Japan (as many might haven't known but Miyamoto Shigeru's a huge fan of Pac-Man). Since he joined as a special guest character alongside with Ms. Pac-Man and Blinky for the Mario Kart Arcade GP series, there may be possibilities that he will join SSB4 as a playable fighter. Not like how he did back in Street Fighter X Tekken as he was riding on a Mokujin Machine (which was terrible of course), but probably using those dots as a projectile attack, biting characters like Wario did, and using his rolling attack as his tackle like Sonic's Spin Dash. His Final Smash may also be Super Pac-Man which used back in Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures, flying around in his invincible form and attacking with his powerful bite attack. However, I must cross my fingers that Sakurai officially announced that Namco will support the production but won't bring characters for SSB4, so Pac-Man or any other Namco characters won't join further on. [|Check on this link if you don't trust me.]