thinking about how Raven Software wanted to add Samus and Link as exclusive characters to the Wii version of Marvel Ultimate Alliance

Nintendo refused only cause the build Raven showed was on a ps2 lol

yup lmao

It would have worked had they not utilized the concept on PlayStation software. That was the thing that shot them in the leg

And then nintendo was livid and said no cause it showed them being played on a ps2 console lmao

people give me a crazy look when I say Nintendo still believes in console wars and competition when there isn’t any and Nintendo is already on top

Blasphemy!

Man, I miss when Nintendo let their characters pop up in third party games like this

See , this would have been cool , but they really should have just added Mudkip. The greatest nintendo character.

So technically, since these were shown, there is probably a build somewhere that has these? Hopefully someone at Activision can provide it when they leave the company 👀 (I know it's kinda illegal, but... to be fair, it's been 2 decades or so, no one's gonna be mad I believe)

I remember my older brother playing the X-Men Legends games on GameCube! I believe they were also developed by Raven Software

i believe this was vicarious visions' idea since they were the ones responsible for the Wii port of the game (and later full on developed the sequel)

What makes this sting even more is that there was another opportunity to actually do it with Ultimate Alliance 3, which is Switch exclusive. Maybe even update them to match BotW and Dread. And yet, nobody involved had enough brain cells to pull the trigger on it. Not even as DLC.

I gotta side with Nintendo here for the rejection. Showing Samus and Link on PS2 hardware is nuts lol. That's like pitching a product to Walmart and they are like "We love this, we'd be happy to sell it here!" and you follow up with "Thanks, I plan on selling this at Target! 😀"

For context the PS2 had the most complete test built which is why they used that version to show Nintendo the character in action but they were meant to be Wii exclusive. Them being shown in the PS2 build is why they got rejected.

Why didn't mua3 restore this idea smh

After Soul Calibur 2, this would have easily been the best way to feature Nintendo characters as special guests. We were robbed!

Their fuck up being, that they developed these on competing hardware, but not on the Wii built itself

And they fumbled the bag by using the PS2 build. Still Nintendo should have put them in marvel ultimate Alliance 3 as dlc maybe add 2 more characters just to have a group of 4. Awith skins as well

Marvel could have done it again, with Ultimate Alliance 3: Nintendo published the freakin thing

I would’ve replayed it (again x 10+ whatever mine play/replay over 20 years is) just for this.

It wasn't Raven Software, it was Vicarious Visions' Art Lead (They ONLY handled the Wii port) who made these concepts. There has never been any word on if Nintendo said no, or even saw this at all. It was all posted to his own blog, then taken down to avoid false advert claims.

I wonder if there's a rom hack somewhere out there that's doing it/done it

I wonder that, if they show this to Nintendo on their Wii instead of PS2, would have allowed to add them?

The only reason it didn't happen was because the put them in the ps2 build and showed Nintendo

My two favorite Nintendo characters!? I'm not surprised Nintendo said no, but whyyyyyy 😭

Is this real?!?! Nintendo/Marvel crossover is crazy.

Raven Software? The CoD developers?

This would have been nuts to see. In a way though Nintendo dodged a bullet here, as the Wii version of the game is atrocious. Like you're actually better off playing the handheld versions.

What could have been.

Sabia dessa @luishsccp ?

I wonder if there's a mod out there to bring them back in

@froakiethroat Is it possible that Samus and Link are still somewhere within the Wii’s version source code?

Imagine if Nintendo agreed and other companies wanted to join in on the exclusive characters. Xbox 360 version could have easily had Master Chief or the PlayStation version could have had Jak & Daxter

We could have had spiderman and link be cannon wtf lol