Japan isn't "making the game". Nintendo is. While Nintendo is a Japanese company, a MASSIVE amount of their sales come from western audiences, and you'd be remiss to say otherwise. Yeah, nobody knew who Marth or Roy was, but that's hardly the case anymore, now is it? iirc the only reason they allowed Marth and Roy to stay was because "they looked cool" (paraphrased quote from the people who allowed em to stay because I can't remember it off the top of my head). There were no polls available to the public for melee, unlike now. And now, those polls might as well be meaningless, do you not agree? Or do you actually believe CORRIN won the polls? Japan exclusives are nice and all, but you seem to be forgetting that Smash is a game that ISN'T made to be exclusive to Japan (and Fates isn't even exclusive, its getting localized and released in February, iirc).
Also, because you believe that Corrin has a better story than the lords of one game, does not mean that he has a better story than the characters of other games (not to mention lords are not the only characters, important though they be).
What about Blazing Sword? Binding Blade? Thracia 776? You think Corrin has better stories than ALL the lords, and ALL the characters? Or at least most? At least give some reasoning why you believe that to be the case, because unlike Fates, which the western audiences have little knowledge about, the other games are well-established, as are the characters and their respective backstories, plotlines, designs, personalities, etc.
You cannot compare the introduction of the first Fire Emblem characters ever into Melee, which had no input from the public to begin with during its character selection, to Smash 4, which now has a facade of Nintendo caring about its public fanbase's opinions (though its nothing more than that: a facade).
Not only that, but Fire Emblem has a respectable # of reps now in smash. They don't NEED this rep, but they want it for the $$$ for Fates. Who gives a fuck about the customer's desires, right?
And, funnily enough, Smash DOES have a japan-exclusive character in Smash: Roy. Binding Blade never got localized/translated, it ended up being fanslated (which is still good, thankfully). But yeah, there's no "empty slot where Japan-exclusive Corrin should be, and Corrin only", and there shouldn't have to be one.
But y'know, whatever.
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