Reggie Fils-Aimé Doesn't Think F-Zero Has Been Abandoned By Nintendo

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Former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé says that he doesn't think Nintendo has abandoned F-Zero, despite a lack of new games.

Although most Nintendo fans are eating happily with new releases for series like Mario, Zelda, and Splatoon, the F-Zero community has been starving for years. Aside from a few maps in Mario Kart 8 and Captain Falcon's popularity in Smash, there's been nothing new for F-Zero since 2004's F-Zero Climax, which was released exclusively in Japan.

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With almost two decades since the last F-Zero, most fans of the series have long considered it abandoned by Nintendo. As reported by GamesBeat, former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé doesn't think the series has purposefully been left behind and thinks that it's likely that some developers are working on ideas that will eventually be in an F-Zero game.

Fils-Aimé said, "Fils-Aimé: Why was F-Zero abandoned? The insight I would share is that, at least during my tenure, Nintendo developers were always experimenting with different gameplay styles, always thinking about where a unique experience could be applied back, either to an existing franchise or maybe creating a new franchise."

Fils-Aimé continued, "My bet is that somewhere in the Kyoto development centers, some developer is playing around with an idea that might be applied to F-Zero. It’s never a situation, at least in my experience, where the company makes a conscious decision not to continue supporting X-Y-Z franchise. Historically it just hasn’t worked that way, not when I was there."

This is the first time that we've heard any former Nintendo employee talk about F-Zero in some time, and although Fils-Aimé isn't saying that