@northern haste  
Yeah, plus Hasbro’s stance on violence. (Despite all the slapstick in the shows. Even G1 had some violence, and slapstick.)
 
Rumor has it, Hasbro C&D’d the fangame “Fighting is Magic,” because they were afraid it’d be too violent, but I can’t confirm if that’s true. (But personally, I think it’s for the better the game got remade into an original property.)

@Beau Skunky  
Another thing that might have cause problems is most likely they would have been given a tight deadline.  
Ma  
Most likely hasbro would have wanted a game to be released around the same time as a season. Wayforward said that in 2013 And I believe at that point each season had to be green lipped

@Enmity1498  
Yeah, they actually have made good licensed games before, such as Contra 4 for DS, Ducktales Remastered, and the sadly obscure “Batman Brave and the Bold” Wii game, which was done like a classic arcade beat-’em-up game.
 
I love the Shantae & Mighty Switch Force series BTW.

@Beau Skunky  
Wait, seriously? The same Wayforward that is responsible for the amazing Shantae platformers wanted to make a MLP game?
 
Honestly, if that happened I would have been so, so very happy. I love Wayforward, and I think they would have made an amazing MLP platformer.

@northern haste  
Yeah, that might’ve also been why it never got an official game, besides the phone aps, and Atari parody online game.

@Beau Skunky  
My biggest concern about friendship is magic ever getting a game would they be able to give characters their own good unique gameplay.  
I wouldnt want it to be like the apps where the ganeplay was based on their race not the characters. And I probably wouldn’t want it to be new characters because the fun from the m6 comes from more than just their personalities

A shame, as I remember Wayforward expressed interest in making an MLP game, and said they are “huge Lauren Faust fans.”  
I imagine a puzzle platformer similar to “Gameboy Donkey Kong ‘94” (the one where you have to carry a key to a door, and solve puzzles, basically a “much better version of Crazy Castle”) would’ve been a great genre for it, and that would appeal to bronies, and kids alike.
 
@Enmity1498  
Yeah, it’s kinda an unfair comparison.  
And granted the ‘80s MLP series was popular, but only mostly with it’s target audience, but the same could be said about stuff like the 1970s “Superfriends” kiddy cartoon, and such. (They weren’t even allowed to punch in those.)
 
@Background Pony #1E55  
Actually, I remember Nintendo Power magazine referenced MLP:FIM, and NOA even once had it on the Eshop thumbnail for the 3DS Netflix ap. I can’t remember if images of those are here though.

People here seem to forget that DC has been around for a far longer period of time than MLP has. Technically they are the oldest comic book publisher in North America, being founded before Timely Comics, which became Marvel Comics, was founded. So naturally it has been in the mainstream community for many decades now, and thus videogame devs are well acquainted with the characters and storylines.  
MLP was not well loved before FiM, and FiM came out only 11 years ago. That is pretty recent, if you ask me.

Define official. MLP never got any recognition from the game companies like nintendo

@Background Pony #7F19  
And That Because Hasbro Also Know DC Video Game Could Be Terrible

Hasbro didn’t want to make any video game

@Background Pony #C43D  
Frankly, I would take the movie over the videogame.

Yeah, well, DC may sabotage themselves, but at least they manage to publish the product. Hasbro sabotaged themselves, and did not produce a product.  
DC: Video game 1. Movie 0.  
Hasbro: Video game 0. Movie 1.

There really needs to be a ‘Flame War’ tag for things like this.

And then you realise the teen titans games sucked, most of the cartoon based batman games were between shit and mediocre and superman had loads of terrible games. And you realise you might have gloated too soon

@UserAccount  
You’re trolling actually hurts

@northern haste  
But there was never a DC video game yet before.

@UserAccount  
It’s still DC

@northern haste  
DC Super Hero Girls isn’t in the main DC continuity, they did a TTG crossover, so it’s set in that world.

@hollowblade  
Also it’s DC a much bigger brand

@northern haste  
An MLP game could easily be awesome. It should be a Platformer with some Adventure Game and RPG elements. You get to pick which character you play as in the combat scenes and then you also play as all six, plus maybe Spike and Starlight in the story elements. It’d be an up to six player co-op game. There’s also an open world element that you can explore for fun.

The reason mlp should get a game should not be be other show did.  
How would they convert the main sixs personalities into gameplay without crashing with each other?

Yeah, but it looks like shit. Still, DC Super Hero Girls is like if Lauren Faust got to keep making MLP, so it’s an infinitely better show than what those horrible writers turned MLP into.

Personally, if MLP:FiM were to get an official video game, I’d want for it to be a graphic adventure, along the lines of Humongous Entertainment’s classics.
 
 
@William Flutter  
It hasn’t outsold the Wii… yet.

Welp someone is very insecure here regarding their favorite show, if they have to resort to putting some other show down.