In the pitched battle we can find characters we never imagined seeing together working side by side. Marcus Fenix and Kratos can engage in a firefight against Aloy and the Master Chief while Superman and Rick Sanchez pursue Avatar Aang and Goku. However, there is a big absence. Despite having characters from rival companies such as Xbox and PlayStation, Marvel superheroes along with those from DC are already singers like Billie Eilish There are no Nintendo characters like Samus from Metroid the link to The Legend of Zelda in Fortnite. What is the cause of that?
There have been many rumors about this over the years and they sound somewhat credible. One of the most popular is that ‘The Big N’ doesn’t want to see her beloved pets wielding semi-realistic firearms. I sound credible, but we didn’t have any official word about it…
… Until now.
Donald Mustard is a name that will be familiar to many fans of the game. He was creative director of Epic Games and one of the main supervisors of Fortnite until he left the company in 2022. He was recently interviewed by Stephen Totilo exclusively for his GameFile page. There she spoke, among other things about the reason why there are no Nintendo characters in Fortnite.
Epic Games did negotiate the presence of Nintendo characters in the game, but they went nowhere. This is what Mustard had to say about it.
“They were completely closed to the idea of their characters appearing on platforms other than theirs. Fortnite It runs on all consoles, PCs and even phones and that means the characters were going to appear on all of those devices. Nintendo was excited to have characters in Fortnite, but only if it was on their platform. “Epic wasn’t going to approve exclusive characters for one platform because we wanted everyone to have the same experience no matter where they played.”
It seems that it was impossible to negotiate that point and that is the reason why Samus Aran has not participated in the pitched battle.
