Ex-Panda CEO responds to Smash community allegations, but players aren’t accepting the Nintendo story this time

More than a month after the initial drama surrounding the sudden cancelation of the Smash World Tour, Nintendo’s involvement, and the subsequent fallout around the Panda Cup, former Panda CEO Dr. Alan Bunney broke his silence last night after publishing a 31-page response to the situation on Dec. 6. But most of the interview was spent rehashing and adding very little clarification to his previous statements. 

While speaking with journalist Jacob Wolf on his Visionaries podcast, Bunney addressed several key points regarding Nintendo’s involvement in the entire situation, “regretting” his response in certain ways, and walking around some of the larger issues while asking for the community to stop harassing him. But the Super Smash Bros. community did get some answers too—and have fired back in response to some of them. 

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