Super Smash Bros. Wii U and 3DS Discussion

http://www.vgchartz.com/game/42966/xenob...hronicles/

http://www.vgchartz.com/game/25464/bayonetta/

Bayonetta has sold around 20,000 more units total to date, but Xenoblade sold over 50% more copies than Bayonetta in Japan. But as you said, Shulk is an actual Nintendo character so it doesn't really matter and he'd have far more weight as a potential character on the roster.

Try again.

Man,bayonetta would be a huge waste of a third party character slot.

Right. Because there is totally a set limit of third party slots and also I remember that thing where Pac-Man is selling games.
I mean, I get that Namco is helping make the game, but he serves as little practical reasons as Snake did.

The line of characters that deserves to be in (not to mention that smash is releasing before bayonetta even gets a game on a nintendo platform in japan) is a mile long.

Arbitrary restrictions, ahoy. I mean, really, how do you justify saying that one character deserves it over another?
Oh! I know!
How about if including the character would serve to promote an upcoming game?

But I get ya. I mean, it is Nintendo. Maybe they aren't interested in trying to sell games.
Maybe they're more interested in their long-term relationship with the developer.

Or maybe we should stop with counting characters out just because our personal bias is sneaking in.
Keep in mind, I'm not saying Bayonetta will be in or should be in (I personally am not a fan of the genre and stopped playing a couple of levels in), I'm just getting tired of all the shitty rationale being thrown around.