That there are a shit ton of horny, sexually repressed Nintendo fanboys around here?
In any case pretty much a ton of sexuality/gender issue topics have been getting a lot of traction lately on GAF. A bunch of Bayonetta 2 threads have blown up because of this even though there are far fewer players actually playing the game. Although you can again associated that with Nintendo but still... I think it's the other reason.
I don't know what happened in that thread. The problem is. What Samus is wearing was not even skimpy. Her blue latex suit is more skimpy than that one. There's nothing more to discuss beyond that.
Bayonetta is a completely different story.
Anyway, going by your theory, if I made a thread about Catalina being very skimpy in Tekken 7, you're suggesting that would get similar traction to the Samus thread? Not because it's a Nintendo property or a Namco property but because gender/sexuality topics are popular on this forum?
I don't think that's a fair comparison. It's difficult to compare the smash fanfare to anything on GAF.
Tekken isn't a limelight franchise anymore yes. But like Michael Murray said on the MasterCup stream, we're lucky that Markman is the franchise's number one fan. I had to become a premium member on nico to watch MasterCup last year. And at least the franchise is getting a sequel. A lot of games aren't lucky enough to get even that.
I can understand Smash being popular. But a skimpy outfit thread getting that type of traction? This is different from the regular smash threads with new news updates every week.