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We haven’t had a new F-Zero game since 2004, and there’s no sign that Nintendo has any plans to return to the much-loved racing franchise.
Put simply, Nintendo doesn’t have any cool new ideas which would warrant F-Zero’s return.
“I certainly understand that people want a new F-Zero game,” Shigeru Miyamoto told IGN at E3. “I think where I struggle is that I don’t really have a good idea for what’s new that we could bring to F-Zero that would really turn it into a great game again. Certainly I can see how people looking at Mario Kart 8 could see, through the anti-gravity, a connection to F-Zero. But I don’t know, at this point, what direction we could go in with a new F-Zero.”
Ultimately Nintendo must pick new projects carefully, and is unable to develop new games for all its classics IPs.
“It’s tough,” Miyamoto said. “We come to the show and we bring a lot of great franchises and everyone says, ‘Oh, well, where’s this game that I want to play? Where’s something new?’ I only have so much capacity. [laughs] Obviously in the past we’ve tried to work with other companies, where we’ve let them develop games for us in franchises like Star Fox and F-Zero, but the more we think about it, the more we prefer to be able to create those games internally, on our own.
“We’ve obviously, as I mentioned, been working on what we can do to increase our internal staff in a way that will allow us to have more projects going at the same time, so we can create new games and work on additional old IP and still maintain the other primary franchises that people want to see.”
Hover car racing fans will have to turn to next spring’s Mario Kart 8 for their anti-grav fix.
Perhaps more importantly, where’s a new WaveRace or Pilot Wings?
Source: IGN
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