Oh yeah, that's the Metroid sauce I want. Inject it into my veins.
It'll forever be a bummer that they're selling us Mii costumes instead of the occasional alt.
It's funny to think how much more money Nintendo can make with smash but choose not too.
I can respect that. But...i would buy some music packs and alt costumes lol
I find it slightly amusing how the Smash fandom might be the only fandom for a fighting game that actually demands the publisher to sell them more things as DLC. However, I understand the sentiment (sigh... seeing what some people do for mods, I REALLY understand it... sigh...).
The way I see it an HD console Fire Emblem game was going to happen anyway, because there is demonstrable profit to be made in it. Fire Emblem is at the heights of its popularity so Nintendo is assured that throwing extra hands into Three Houses' development would be worthwhile.
Golden Sun wasn't a flop or anything (I believe the first two games combined sold 1.5 mil or there abouts) but it was also dormant for several years, got revived on DS to little fanfare, and went right back to sleep. I don't see why or how Nintendo would be willing to throw that many resources into the development of a game where it can't be accurately predicted if the sales numbers will be worth it.
This is the kind of thing that happens through ballooning HD development costs and the death of the handheld market. They could revive Golden Sun as a low stake game appropriately budgeted and marketed to an audience they know will want it, but there's not really a lot of profit to be made.
The thing about Golden Sun is that both GBA installments actually sold one million each; 2.77m together.
Then they threw away that momentum, went dormant for too long before making a sequel, then that sequel disapointed fans and performed poorly.
That initial success is why a Golden Sun revival isn't IMPOSSIBLE; but I consider it unlikely.
Well, those are fair points, yes.
Honestly, at this point I just hope they eventually reissue the GBA games in some way (maybe when/if they finally start adding GBA games to the Switch Online service).