F-Zero is Nintendo's biggest racing franchise... okay, sure, Mario Kart is bigger, but besides that... oh, wait, is Diddy Kong Racing in the mix? Because if that's the case, then I'll have to...
Ah, screw it. F-Zero is Nintendo's biggest futuristic racing franchise featuring a character named Captain Falcon. There, settled.
Now, while the series has been dormant in recent years, many fans have been hoping that Nintendo could show us some moves and rally up a comeback. However...
So, basically, Nintendo has no real ideas for another game and is reluctant to hand it off to an outside developer this time around. Sounds like the franchise is F'd... zero.
Of course, this doesn't mean that we will never see another F-Zero game, but we likely won't be seeing one anytime soon. You'll just have to get your futuristic racing fix elsewhere.
*something something something* Falcon punch to the gut *something something something*.
Ah, screw it. F-Zero is Nintendo's biggest futuristic racing franchise featuring a character named Captain Falcon. There, settled.
Now, while the series has been dormant in recent years, many fans have been hoping that Nintendo could show us some moves and rally up a comeback. However...
IGN"I certainly understand that people want a new F-Zero game," Miyamoto said. "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."
...I wondered, and asked, if Miyamoto simply felt some franchises (like F-Zero or Wave Race) were suited to older generations of Nintendo hardware, and didn't have a place in modern gaming.
"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."
So, basically, Nintendo has no real ideas for another game and is reluctant to hand it off to an outside developer this time around. Sounds like the franchise is F'd... zero.
Of course, this doesn't mean that we will never see another F-Zero game, but we likely won't be seeing one anytime soon. You'll just have to get your futuristic racing fix elsewhere.
*something something something* Falcon punch to the gut *something something something*.