Epic Games is currently trying to negotiate cross-border cooperation with Nintendo, hoping to have the opportunity to allow well-known Nintendo characters to launch cooperative character designs in Epic Games’ popular battle royale game “Fortress Heroes”, but unfortunately, so far, there are still Not yet negotiated.
Since its release in 2017, the third-person battle royale game has become an extremely popular work. It has even cooperated with various well-known pop culture brands, IPs and even real celebrities, and has launched a large number of character styles, emoticons and other customizations in the past six years. In addition, each new season will bring a large amount of new content that satisfies fans, including challenges on game maps, weapon balance and gameplay elements, as well as the launch of new battle passes and cooperative activities, etc., all of which gradually make “Fortress” Heroes became an extremely large game.
So far, the potential partners of “Fortress Heroes” can be said to be completely unpredictable. Japanese games such as “Dragon Ball”, “Naruto”, “Attack on Titan”, “Jutsu Kaiba” or “My Hero Academia” Characters from anime, American adult animations such as “Rick and Morty”, “Watchmen” and “Geeks”, or superheroes from Marvel and DC, as well as Eminem, Ariana Grande, Lolo Singers such as Yi Xiaozi and The Weeknd, as well as many video games such as “Halo”, “God of War”, “Metal Gear Solid”, “Fighter” and “The Castle of Evil”, and even “noodle stalls” Internet celebrities such as “Brother”, MrBeast and Ninja. Nintendo is one of the few that has not yet had any cooperation with “Fortress Heroes”.
In an interview with Axios, Epic Games executive Saxs Persson revealed that he is trying to discuss the possibility of cooperation with Nintendo, including letting Nintendo characters appear in “Fortress Heroes”. Epic Games very much hopes to promote cooperation with Nintendo, but judging from the response of this executive, the negotiations seem to be just wishful thinking on the part of Epic Games.
Although many “Fortress Heroes” players do hope that Nintendo characters such as Link, Zelda, Mario, Samus, and Star Fox will appear in the game, this does not seem to be happening in the short term. After all, Nintendo is a company that mainly focuses on entertainment. They don’t seem to want to see Mario shooting enemies with a gun, being killed by other characters, or using all kinds of weird expressions and actions in “Fortress Heroes” that damage the character’s image. and dance, or appear on a competitor’s platform.
Even though Nintendo seems to have little interest in collaborating with “Fortress Heroes”, Epic Games stated that although both parties have different plans, they still hope to have the opportunity to use characters from Nintendo games because players will absolutely love it.
