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Microsoft’s Xbox chief has a great idea for a new Super Smash Bros. character

This is a good sign for Banjo fans.

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The head of Microsoft‘s Xbox division is apparently a fan of Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. franchise.

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Shortly after Nintendo launched a program to let fans recommend characters for the next Super Smash Bros. game, Xbox chief Phil Spencer tweeted that he wanted to see the series incorporate Banjo from the Banjo-Kazooie series that Microsoft has published since 2008.

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There’s a good reason why Spencer chose Banjo over a character like, say, Halo star Master Chief: Banjo-Kazooie, the 1998 Nintendo 64 game that launched the eponymous series, was developed by Rare, which Microsoft acquired (along with all of its intellectual property) in 2000. In 2009, Microsoft re-released the first game on its Xbox Live Arcade platform.

Fans all over the Internet have been throwing suggestions at Nintendo for a new Smash character, from Dragon Ball Zs Goku to obscure Internet jokes like Coldsteel the Hedgeheg.

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