You won\u2019t see Samus in Fortnite due to Nintendo exclusivity says ex-Fortnite Boss Donald Mustard\/NintendoEx-Fortnite boss Donald Mustard has revealed in an interview why Nintendo won\u2019t let a Samus Aran skin in Fortnite. Here\u2019s the reason. Fortnite is known to engage in collaborations with not only celebrities but also iconic video game characters across various franchises and platforms. Over the past years, Fortnite has collaborated with Halo, Uncharted, God of War, and Street Fighter to bring their characters as in-game cosmetics. However, when it comes to Nintendo, Samus Aran has been a top choice for Ex-Fortnite boss Donald Mustard. Samus is the protagonist of the long-running Nintendo-exclusive franchise Metroid, with the first game going back as early as 1986. But when Epic and Mustard approached Nintendo for a Metroid x Fortnite crossover, things got a bit more complicated with Nintendo only wanting their exclusive characters to appear on their console, even though, Microsoft and Sony exclusive characters can be used across all platforms in Fortnite. In a recent interview with Game File, Mustard spoke about his stint with Epic while working in Fortnite and said he wanted three crossover console skins in the game and only got two. The skins in context are Halo\u2019s Master Chief from Xbox, God of War\u2019s Kratos from PlayStation, and Metroid\u2019s Samus Aran from Nintendo. Chief and Kratos made it in the game as skins, but sadly Samus didn\u2019t since Nintendo declined the offer. \u201cThey got really hung up on their characters showing up on platforms that weren\u2019t their platforms\u201d, Mustard told Game File. Since Fortnite ran on all consoles and PCs, even mobile at the time, meaning all the console crossover skins would appear on all of them. But Nintendo didn\u2019t like that. \u201cThey would be thrilled to have Nintendo characters in Fortnite, but just only if it\u2019s on their platform\u201d, said Mustard elaborating on the situation. Furthermore, he told Game File, that Epic would want the characters to be available on all platforms. \u201cFor me and for all of Epic, we\u2019re like, \u2018That is an absolute must.\u2019 We want to make sure that Fortnite is the same experience, no matter what screen or device you\u2019re playing on\u201d, Mustard said. Nintendo has collaborated with Fortnite in terms of Switch Bundle skins in the past that were only exclusive to owners of the console. However, those outfits were original designs by Epic and not famous characters. Still, there\u2019s not been a single character from Nintendo-exclusive games that have made an appearance in Fortnite yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You won\u2019t see Samus in Fortnite due to Nintendo exclusivity says ex-Fortnite Boss Donald Mustard\/NintendoEx-Fortnite boss Donald Mustard has revealed in an interview why Nintendo won\u2019t let a Samus Aran skin in Fortnite. Here\u2019s the reason. Fortnite is known to engage in collaborations with not only celebrities but also iconic video game characters across various […]<\/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-78064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78064","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=78064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}