SourceI will personally say that I...actually never played Star Fox 64. Assault was the first Star Fox game I actually played, and I enjoyed it. I say "actually played", because while I did play the original SNES game through an old emulator collection one of my cousins gave us, I was a kid so my time with that game was...not great.
Yes, and we all know how that turned out. Honestly, many just assume the game never existed, because of how much it butchered (look at Krystal in particular - HOW DID THEY THINK THAT LEVEL OF CHARACTER ASSASSINATION WORLD WORK OUT?).
I'm going to level with you here: from what I've seen, almost every Wii U game that could be ported to the Switch/Switch 2 with traditional controls has already been ported (one exception that could still be ported in this way being the Zelda HD remasters, but they might be saving those for a later time).
That's pushing it, but I guess I'll grab the digital version.
Mouse mode could be used for the full range aiming.
At the very least, there are seemingly good additions that aren’t just motion controls. The multiplayer looks kinda fun too.
That version on the top looks like a bear hybrid, honestly. The black nose doesn't help.
The people wanting a new F-Zero are F-Zero X/GX fans. SNES F-Zero is just a boring mode 7 tech demo without any of the things that made F-Zero memorable.
Based. People would say "but roguelike is oversaturated lol" and it would hit like BotW did for open-world.
If F-Zero GX was so great, why didn't it outsell the SNES title, even with the debated 1.5mil sales claim? (Original F-Zero was 2.85mil total, and that's without factoring in Virtual Console re-releases or SNES Classic.) More to the point, why wasn't F-Zero GX's "greatness" enough to save the F-Zero series from abandonment after the absolute financial failure that was F-Zero: GP Legends/Climax? (Both games absolutely bombed in Japan, and even with Western sales number, GP Legends didn't even reach 10% of X or Maximum Velocity's sales numbers.)
They didn't sell many Gamecubes, so low sales on Gamecube isn't a surprise at all.
And yet Maximum Velocity on GBA sold almost as well as F-Zero X did (1.05 mil and 1.1 mil respectively, as of Dec 2014). Also, in regards to you "GameCube sales were poor, so low sales on GameCube isn't a surprise", Star Fox Assault ALSO sold low on GameCube - in fact, it sold worse than F-Zero's debated 1.5 mil and the previous Star Fox title (Assault sold ~900k total across all regions, while Adventures sold ~1.82 mil). And yet THAT game got a follow-up a year later on the DS and, despite Command's failure, two more games after that, meaning it lasted longer than F-Zero before being shelved (same with Metroid, funny enough, since Prime 2 sales were below half the first title's). And even if we took your "I didn't have fun playing them" opinion as an argument to discard the GBA/SNES titles, that STILL wouldn't have ruled out a Nintendo Wii follow-up to GX if it was as successful as claimed.
You would have to ask Nintendo that.
I'm gonna have to disagree. They royally screwed up with the audio on that. Whoever they had handling the editing process and recording paid absolutely no attention to details and situations.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if people did ask Nintendo such questions, and either didn't get a direct answer (i.e. "we don't know where to take the series") or the answer was one that could be backed up by sales numbers. Funny enough, that means the quarterly/annual business reports released by Nintendo (and groups that tracked physical sales at the time) are the closest people are going to get to a solid answer, and none of them put F-Zero GX above 1mil sales (the only thing that does is that one claim made by the Yakuza series creator in 2018, with no records to back it up).
Never played Zero as I never owned a WiiU.
