Fortnite has had nearly each crossover at this stage from Dragon Ball and Marvel to LEGO, however the one model Epic believes might high all of them is….drum roll… Nintendo!
Chatting with Axios in Los Angeles this week, the pinnacle of Fortnite’s ecosystem Saxs Persson admitted Epic had tried extremely exhausting to woo the legendary online game firm behind Zelda, Mario and Donkey Kong, however was unable to make any vital progress.
When requested how exhausting Epic has tried to woo Nintendo, Persson advised Axios, “I do not know what the phrase for, like, making diamonds is.”
If it did occur although, it would simply be Epic’s largest crossover ever. Persson believes the Fortnite participant base would “adore it”:
“Nintendo has their technique and we’ve our technique, and we hope sooner or later” to make use of their characters, Perrson stated, as a result of “our gamers would adore it.”
Given Nintendo’s historical past and the best way it protects sure IP, we admittedly cannot see Mario operating across the battlefield with a tactical assault rifle. And Shigeru Miyamoto as soon as famously recommended Uncommon’s iconic first-person shooter GoldenEye 007 ought to finish with far much less violence.
Maybe Epic might discover a workaround, just like its latest collaborations with Rocket League and LEGO. It is also value noting how this is not the primary time we have heard about Epic’s curiosity in getting Nintendo sequence in its standard battle royale. Again in 2021, inside paperwork and a comic book revealed Samus from the Metroid sequence was additionally on the Fortnite crossover wishlist.
