xQc explains why Smash Bros esports has more potential than Overwatch Robert Paul\/Blizzard Entertainment\/NintendoTwitch star Felix \u2018xQc\u2019 Lengyel had an interesting take when comparing Overwatch and Smash Bros esports scenes based on investment and popularity. To literally illustrate his point, the former Overwatch League pro loaded up Microsoft Paint and created a chart. \u201cMy analysis is that the way to determine if something is dead, not overall, but on its own, you need to figure this out,\u201d he began. \u201cThis is the result,\u201d he said while drawing a red bar in the diagram. \u201cAnd then this is how much is being put into it,\u201d the Winston main continued, drawing a larger blue bar next to the red one. According to xQc, by investing more into a game, its popularity could go a lot higher than it otherwise would without that added investment. \u201cAt some point it [the investment] will make sense,\u201d he added. With the idea now presented, the French Canadian proceeded to show how this applied to Overwatch League and drew a small red bar indicating the lack of popularity and a massive blue one referencing the millions many investors paid. When it came time to draw the potential with all the extra cash, Lengyel just added a bit more red to the bar, suggesting that Overwatch League doesn\u2019t benefit that much from all the investment. \u201cI want to be wrong about this!\u201d he confessed. \u201cIt\u2019s just that it\u2019s a crazy amount of resources being put in. Look at other scenes, look at Smash. Smash is like this\u2026\u201d Felix then added another red bar, showing it was more popular than Overwatch and then a very small blue one depicting the lack of funding the scene has. \u201cThey barely have enough funding to give free snacks to the pro players! They have to get their food from vending machines,\u201d he screamed. \u201cBut they still pull good numbers and there\u2019s not a lot of involvement.\u201d For Lengyel, he believes it\u2019s time, given Smash\u2019s popularity, for it to \u201cgo boom.\u201d While Overwatch was popular when it first came out, xQc says Blizzard messed up by not putting resources into the game when it was hot on the market. Hopefully, Nintendo can change policies and start to do more to help the Smash scene, especially considering the game\u2019s incredible popularity and potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
xQc explains why Smash Bros esports has more potential than Overwatch Robert Paul\/Blizzard Entertainment\/NintendoTwitch star Felix \u2018xQc\u2019 Lengyel had an interesting take when comparing Overwatch and Smash Bros esports scenes based on investment and popularity. To literally illustrate his point, the former Overwatch League pro loaded up Microsoft Paint and created a chart. \u201cMy analysis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}