@Indigo I never played any of the games outside of a demo for one of the winter games on DS back when you can download DS demos through the Wii. I never saw it as a big deal. I was only three years old when the Dreamcast was discontinued and we never owned any Sega consoles, so seeing Mario and Sonic together like this didn't make a big impact for me.

@xianc78 That's fair, the whole "Sonic vs. Mario," conversation was already well past its stage of relevancy by the time 2007 rolled around, Sonic games had already been multiplatform for a long time at that point.
Hell, I'm going to be 30 in two months and I'm barely old enough to remember the Sega/Nintendo rivalry.
It was mostly for the Gen Xers who grew up in the 80's that the novelty worked for. Console wars in general just weren't really much of a thing past gen 6, so I can't really see the appeal in a modern context.

@Indigo @xianc78 I remember being big wtf when I entered the video rental store and seeing a Sonic game, SA2:B on Gamecube

Rented it, loved it, bought it later

@Indigo @xianc78 Nintendo famously likes if you use their characters in their games if you're a third party dev and they approve of it. So of course Nintendo was going to love having an exclusive.

Plus Sega had the Olympics license at the time (they also made more "sim" olympics games) and well, everyone doesn't even talk about the boring "sim" Olympics games they made but people still bring up Mario and Sonic years later for a damn good reason.

(I had a friend who had Nintendo dev access telling me this, but also he's played many "fun" Nintendo Crossovers like Starlink (the Switch version has a Star Fox tie in.))

@PurpCat @Indigo
>Nintendo famously likes if you use their characters in their games if you're a third party dev and they approve of it.

Which is why I always argued that the Mother 4 team should've gotten official approval from Nintendo/Itoi instead of rebranding it into an original game. Itoi said that he would play a Mother 4 if someone else made it.

@xianc78 @Indigo it's more shit like Nintendo characters in your game

@PurpCat @xianc78 Story checks out.

@Indigo I'm surprised that there has never been a Mario and Mickey Mouse crossover given that Miyamoto is a huge Disney fan and Nintendo is big enough to make a deal with them, but maybe Disney thinks that Kingdom Hearts is enough when it comes to video game crossovers.

@xianc78 I've wonder that myself to be honest, maybe it's a contractual thing.
Disney is no stranger to crossovers either, after all.

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