Epic Games' former chief creative officer and Fortnite boss has revealed why the Battle Royale has never added Metroid hero Samus to the battle royale, and it's simply because she couldn't be a Nintendo Switch-exclusive character.
A few years ago, Metroid fans were teased with some truly tantalizing information. According to a 2020 Epic Games business review revealed during the Epic v Apple lawsuit in 2021, the battle royale devs seemed interested in adding Samus in what would have been the first Nintendo collaboration. Fortnite is constantly adding new collabs – your typical match can see Resident Evil's Leon Kennedy, My Hero Academia's Deku, and even Lady Gaga duking it out for the Victory Royale. However, to this day no Nintendo characters have been introduced, and in a new Game File interview, former Fortnite lead Donald Mustard claims Nintendo "got really hung up on their characters showing up on platforms that weren't their platforms."
