Smash Bros Ultimate: Four years later, Ninja reveals its $500,000 offer for Nintendo

Gaming News Smash Bros Ultimate: Four years later, Ninja reveals its $500,000 offer for Nintendo

A $500,000 bid for Nintendo

It’s an amazing revelation that took place last night: Tyler ninja Blevins, a well-known content creator and streamer in the Fortnite community, reportedly offered to match an additional $500,000 towards the Super Smash Bros Ultimate EVO 2019 cash prize. An offer that Nintendo would not have followed. During a poker evening organized by Youtuber Ludwig (2.9 million subscribers) with many big names in the industry (Mr. Beast or even xQc), Ninja made the revelation

All I wanted was to host a huge tournament and win $500,000 for EVO. But I wanted Nintendo’s permission first, and they never got back to us.

An offer that likely mirrors a tweet from 2018: November 27 of this year, Ninja talks about preparing something for the smash/versus fighting community. That’s ten days before the release of Smash Bros Ultimate.

Nintendo, Smash Bros and eSports: What you need to know

If it’s hard to spot in this story, it’s worth acknowledging that even with Smash Bros., Nintendo has never been very knowledgeable about eSports. The quality of fashion In line

of the license is often perceived by players as disastrous, while no official tournament has ever really seen the light of day : Consequently, it is difficult to encourage professional players to get involved. An observation that also strikes us about the EVO: the event that organizes tournaments for different games against fightingHe didn’t host Smash Bros in 2020 or 2021. The reason? A tournament organized online because of the health crisis, from which Smash Bros Ultimate had been excluded due to aOn-line insufficient. And while EVO is going face-to-face again this year in Las Vegas, this time it’s Nintendo that’s refusing to take part: It is worth remembering that the event has been flying the Sony flag since last year.

Despite everything, there’s still hope for those who want an official Super Smash Bros competition: last November, it was the PandaGlobal brand that announced a partnership with Nintendo to create an official Nintendo-licensed North American circuit for Super Smash Bros Ultimate to create, but also for Super Smash Bros melee. Hoping that the initiative will continue with a European or even French circuit, even if it already shines with a thousand lights: French Solary player Glutonny last week became the first European Smash Bros player to win a major tournament in the United States.