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Personally, I think a new F-ZERO game for the Switch makes more sense than Mario Kart 9. It could be a tech showcase for the hypothetical Switch Pro, who knows.
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F-ZERO GX producer Toshihiro Nagoshi open to working on the series again, would want new game to be challenging
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Personally, I think a new F-ZERO game for the Switch makes more sense than Mario Kart 9. It could be a tech showcase for the hypothetical Switch Pro, who knows.
You guys know this will never happen, as Nintendo doesn't give a hoot about the F-Zero series in the slightest, right?
I think people who want F-Zero would at minimum would appreciate a F-Zero GX remaster with some online play added even if they don't want to make a brand new game. Visually it kind of holds up because you don't really get to stare at textures because of how fast the game moves.
I would rather Toshihiro Nagoshi work on a nextgen / currentgen Daytona first, then see if Nintendo wants an F-ZERO for Switch 2 launch.
If it F-Zero happens I don't think it'll be super challenging, that just isn't accessible enough to reach an audience
I fucking wish this would happen but I doubt it. Nintendo could give two fucks about F-Zero sadly outside of Smash.
I think F-Zero and Mario Kart would compliment one another quite well myself, but the franchise sales difference is comically one-sided here and there is just no way Nintendo would take a random risk to make a small fanbase happy, especially when Mario Kart in itself is probably the most successful wholly owned Nintendo franchise in history.
Analog triggers are absolutely vital to the game, so unless a future Nintendo platform has them then we will never get proper ports. Shame too because as you said, GX holds up quite well.
I want that pretty bad. I'd buy it instantly. It's not impossible, but it's been a rough decade (working on decades) for f-zero fans lol.
The Nintendo executive argument that the series isn't worth revisiting without a new gameplay design is bullshit. F-Zero GX while fast paced and gorgeous is stuck in a time when visual fidelity and physics were just coming out of their shell. An F-Zero with today's modern hardware would in some ways completely reshape the franchise in what they could accomplish.
the series has more issues related to its general cannon and overworld than anything else which simply just isn't all that interesting.
the series has more issues related to its general cannon and overworld than anything else which simply just isn't all that interesting.
We'll be getting sim racing games in the year 3000 that LOOK like F-Zero, before we actually get a new F-Zero.
I feel like people forgot that Nintendo Land had an F-Zero mini game. With that and the Mario Kart tracks, there are probably employees within Nintendo that are still interested in the series.
None of that matters because you're missing the forest for the trees. Nobody bought f zero GX. The series, on keeping iterating on the same idea without a new hook had rapidly decreasing sales to the point where despite being a cult classic, GX couldn't even sell a million copies.
The sci-fi futuristic racing genre has hardly taken off in the interim either.
Realistically Nagoshi isn't going to have time to take 3+ years off of the Yakuza series to work on this anyway. He's responsible for one of, if not the biggest series attached to Sega Japan other than Persona.
Even if by some miracle Nintendo were interested I doubt SEGA would want to work on an exclusive Nintendo series again. What would they gain from it?
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In fairness, they haven't made a new instalment in the New Super Mario Bros series in quite some time, as that boat set sailed.
If F zero sold like Mario kart and New super Mario Bros instead of like codename steam, it would have gotten more games.
But mario kart 8 on the damned Wii U of all things quite possibly outsold the entire f zero series lifetime sales.
No. It didn't. We've been over it in that very thread. Nagoshi is wrong. Nintendo , as it always has done for decades, reports all titles that shipped over a million copies and GX was never one of them.
