This isn't real. Or at least I hope it isn't.


Please don't be real.

Paul Gale first gave us the scope about it.
http://paulgalenetwork.com/home/2011/11/27/superbot-entertainment-is-developing-title-fight-first-screens-james-bond-update-and-more-info-within/#comments

Yeah, everything about this seems pretty fishy. I think it'd be cool to see a Sony Smash Bros, but I just can't imagine the roster would be even half as strong as Nintendo Smash Bros, and it wouldn't really have the same "these are mostly tame characters beating each other's asses" dynamic.

Still, I'd spend money to fight Nathan Drake as Sweet Tooth. Nathan Drake needs to get his.

Captain Jack, is that you?

Would be pretty cool if it was real though. Having Crash, Parappa and Spyro all in a game would be pretty neat.

Mega man and Super Mario figures on the desk, first two secret characters in the game!

It can't work. Nintendo is the only company in the industry with enough iconic franchises and characters for this sorta game to work.

One Smash Bros. is too much for me. The inherently silly nature of the game makes it very difficult to get into. However, it would probably be welcome among other gamers, even if it seems like a desperate attempt to ape Nintendo's success.

Well they did say they were looking to bring back Parappa the Rapper. So this would be a good chance to familiarize people with parappa and other old IPs to people and then make a new game with those IPs. I am so game.

Please have a colossus as a stage

Yeah I'm pretty sure these are fake because the office looks like it's set up in a boiler room. After watching behind the scenes Uncharted, God of War, and Playstation development blog videos these look nothing like any of those offices. If Sony was making such a high profil game they probably wouldn't stick the development team in a dirty basment.

Why would you want it to not be real, Zantetsuken? Is it because you're too lame and couldn't handle the coolness?

I want this to happen and I don't even own a PS3 (so I kinda hope it also gets released for the Vita)

Because leaks never happen in this industry, right?

Yeah, it's definitely a rumour that almost feels too good to be true. It's hard to imagine any developer thinking it would be wise to post images on a big, unannounced first party game they are working on without consent from Sony but this could all be viral hype or something in preparation for an announcement early next year.

Even still, I don't mind dreaming. I feel the game would have to have a cartoony look to it to work right but it would be a game I'd be all over.

As for people who think Sony doesn't have the characters for a cross-universe game they can draw from a pool of: Ratchet & Clank, Jax & Daxter, LBP, Ape Escape, Resistance, Killzone, Sly Cooper, God of War, Uncharted, Infamous, ModNations, Patapon, LocoRoco, Ico, SotC, Warhawk/Starhawk, Twisted Metal, MotorStorm, WipEout and then ever past franchises such as Crash and Spyro. They don't need characters from every game but they could use some for inspiration on levels, items and the assist-trophy equivalent. I'd say that Sony at this point has more unique franchises to draw from than even Nintendo has.

Haha Danny Trejo sells it for me

An army of Patapon and a fucking Colossi super smash plz.

There would be so much friggin' gruff voice acting in a Sony Smash Bros. that it'd be like audio pea soup.

Seriously. Count up all of Sony's memorable characters that'd be candidates for inclusion, then note any who don't sound like your neighborhood rock radio shock jock gargled a tall glass of thumbtacks after smoking a carton of cigs.

aaaaaaaaaaaape escaaaaaaaaaaaaaaape.

Sony has a lot of franchises to use:

Ape Escape
Jak and Daxter
Ratchet & Clank
Sly Cooper
ModNation
LittleBig Planet
Parappa the Rapper
Um Jammer Lammy
Gitaroo Man
Shadow of the Colossus
Ico
Uncharted
Resistance
SOCOM
LocoRoco
Patapon
Disgaea
Syphon Filter
inFAMOUS


If this is a thing, they already gave me Parappa, which secures a day one purchase. :D

I think it could work if the game play is good
Cole would work well he has a bunch of powers that can be bended to fit in
Ratchet and clank, quark, and nefarious
Jack and daxter and the items in those games
Little big plannet stages and items
Sly cooper gang and carmelita.
any of the sony japan wacky psp games would work well too.
And since sony has a pretty good relationships with third parties then they could get plenty of characters from them.
Shadow of the colossus stages would be amazing
Medevil
and plenty of others.

@Lolzstradamus

So, take away like 5 from my list?

There was a fighting game featuring some of Playstation's famous characters on the Playstation one, I don't remember it being very popular, though.

it's SCEA title?

they probably would ignore most of this sony owned game (i just hope some of this could enter the roster):

-folklore
-over my dead body
-dark cloud
-legend of legaia
-Wild Arms
-Legend of The Dragon
-jeanne d'arc
-rogue galaxy
-WKC
-demon soul
-bleach
-ico
-shadow of the colossus
-numblast
-parapa the rapper
-ape escape
-toro series

K4ZKUR0: dont remind me about folklore. no one bought it ;_;

They could use the Echochrome guy as an equivalent of Game & Watch

oh yes! please for every penis out there, please be real!

and for all the kittehs too!

@Scissors, CelicaCrazed

I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be able to use Crash and Spyro, unfortunately. Aren't they both owned by Activision now? It's a damn shame, the PS1 games in both franchises pretty much owned my childhood.

I definitely think this would be an awesome game if it came to fruition. I dunno how Parappa would look next to a bunch of 3D characters if he was still 2D, that'd be interesting to think about.

The important thing is that Sony has plenty of franchises to pull characters from. Colour me optimistic; I hope this sees the light of day.

So... basically it would be God of War vs Twisted Metal vs Uncharted vs Infamous? I love some of those games, but that isn't a very deep bench.

If you want more details GAF was on the case since the rumor started http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=453368. Though the twitter account of the guy releasing the info was deleted.

Danny Trejo's face should be a stage

@Tomothy

That's one of the reasons I think this is fake. It just wouldn't be right to do this cross over without Crash. I still hope that one day Sony will buy back the Crash rights and Naughty Dog will develop Crash Bandicoot 4.

daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn it didnt work!!! arghh fucking fuck

Haha, I recognize those reference images in the zbrush shot.
This is one of these games I'd expect gets halfway into the development cycle, then dropped.
It would make a pretty good Vita launch title, though.

Oh god if they character banter like in MV.C3 it would be amazing. Think about kratos or Drake talking to prappa and vise versa. And the drake one liners could be godly. anyway as prappa says "you gotta believe'

@Tomothy & Scissors
Well I'm sure they could work out a deal or something. I mean Nintendo got Snake in SSMB and I'd like to see Activision turn down free money, unless of course the ransom ends up being too high or something.

@Scissors, Tomothy

Sony holds the rights for the original Designs for Crash and Spyro, as well as their character. They can just base their moveset & style from Crash Wapred & Year of the Dragon.

Also, Kevin Butler.

Epic-Kx: no look crossbow attack, playstation move sharpshooter. And every time he does a attack his costume changes.

WTF at least Nintendo mascots in SuperSmashBros are cultural icons Nobody gona know half of the fighters in $ony's ripoff brawler

Fat Princes? Parapa? Colonel MAel??? WHO?

something about throughing in super realistic modern characters with ultra cartoony characters just seems wronge. While this is interesting I dout we'll see any results.

jimboxxx: like everyone that played smash brothers knew Ice Climbers, Ike, Lucas, Marth, Ness, R.O.B., Roy, and pit and knew where they came from.

@Epic-Kx

Activision owns the rights to those characters' likenesses, I can't imagine Sony having any rights at all in this case. It would make zero sense to acquire the rights to characters only if you change them enough to allow the original owners to retain the rights to their previous designs.

I think people here are vaaaaaaaaaaaastly overestimating the number of characters Sony actually has the right to use without needing permission. I think it is entirely unreasonable to believe that Sony could possibly overcome more red tape than anyone in gaming history to pull off the kind of lineup people seem to be suggesting.

It is way more likely that Sony would be allowed to use a handful of characters they don't already own the rights to exclusively, and just massage their first party games hard enough to produce the bulk of the lineup.

Ok then since I'm the only one on the net who apparently does fact checking, this is the complete list of sony owned first party franchises.

Ape Escape
Arc the Lad
Buzz!
Calling All Cars!
Carnival Island
Colony Wars
Cool Boarders
Dark Cloud
Dark Mist
Demon's Souls
Dead Nation
Destruction Derby
Discworld
Dog's Life
Downhill Domination
Dropship: United Peace Force
Eight Days
Extermination
EyePet
EyeToy
FantaVision
Folklore
Fat Princess
Gangs of London
Genji
Getaway, The
Ghosthunter
Gran Turismo
God of War
G-Police
Hardware
Heavenly Sword
Hot Shots Golf
Ico
inFamous
Intelligent Qube
Invizimals
Jak and Daxter
Jeanne d'Arc
Jet Moto
Jumping Flash!
Killzone
Kinetica
Kung Fu Rider
Lair
Last Guardian, The
Legend of Dragoon, The
Legend of Legaia
Lemmings[22]
LittleBigPlanet
LocoRoco
MAG
Mark of Kri, The
MediEvil
Medieval Moves: Deadmund's Quest
ModNation Racers
Motor Toon Grand Prix
MotorStorm
Okage: Shadow King
PaRappa the Rapper
Patapon
PlayStation Move Heroes
PoPoLoCrois
Primal
Pursuit Force
Rally Cross
Ratchet & Clank
Rise of the Kasai
Resistance
Rogue Galaxy
Ruin
Shadow of the Colossus
SingStar
Siren
Sly Cooper
Sports Champions
SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs
Sorcery
Syphon Filter
The Fight: Lights Out
The Shoot
Tourist Trophy
Twisted Metal
Uncharted
UmJammer Lammy
Warhawk
War of the Monsters
White Knight Chronicles
Wild Arms
Wipeout

While not all of these are iconic, I say they have enough there for a good core, and if they got some of their loyal second party publishes to sign off on their character, they'd have a pretty respectable lineup.

Sackboy's super smash better be just getting the poppit out and deleting the other player.

@jimboxxx"tremestuckinthe90sgay12yearold"

Ice Climbers? Lucas? Ike and Marth? WHO?
And don't even get me started on Xbox characters.

To all the people saying this game would suck because there's not enough recognizable characters on the Playstation, remember that the Playstation is now on it's 3rd (that why it's called the Playstation 3) generation and has been going on now for over 15 years. There's definitely a LOT of characters to choose from from all those years. Btw, you don't know who the fuc* Parappa is? For shame, for shame...

OH MY GOD RAU FROM MARK OF KRI WOULD OWWWWWN.

I'd like to see the Microsoft version.

Masterchief versus Kinectimals Panda... FIGHT!

Masterchief uses Rigorous Petting. Victorious.

Masterchief versus Fable Hero... FIGHT!

Fable Hero uses Noxious Fart. Victorious.

Fable Hero versus Alan Wake... FIGHT!

Alan Wake uses Bright Fuckin' Flashlight. Victorious.

Alan Wake versus Marcus Fenix... FIGHT!

Uh oh. It seems Microsoft didn't buy the rights to Gears of War, so they can't use that character. Alan Wake wins by default, drives off in a Forza car. The end.

Boy howdy that was fun, right?

I'm not saying that any of this is or isn't real, because I have no strong opinion one way or another, but, if Sony wanted to make a Smash Bros. like game, it would make sense for them to throw older, forgotten characters like Parappa. That's exactly what Smash Bros. does with characters like Ice Climbers and Mr. Game & Watch.

Also, if this game ever actually comes out, I'll be maining Fat Princess.

Can't really think of iconic transcendental PS characters for this to work. If this game were to materialize I can only imagine this would sell to the most hardcore sony fanboys while most people watching this would go: uh, who is this? Why do they look the same? They don't do much. Play something else >:[

This could only work if they just stuck to their cartoony franchises: Sly Cooper, Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Parappa. However, I think the rights for some of those are in different hands now so it might be hard to do.

Still doubt this is real.

Über Bash Siblings:Fracas

CONFIRMED!!