Reggie Fils-Aimé thinks there's still a chance we could see another F-Zero game
Reggie Fils-Aimé - former president of Nintendo of America - has commented on Nintendo's "abandoned" racing franchise F-Zero, and hinted that no Nintendo series is ever truly dead.
F-Zero raced onto Nintendo consoles way back in 1990, but engines have been off ever since 2004's F-Zero Climax. Interestingly, though, Fils-Aimé doesn't think this means another F-Zero game will never happen; instead, he confirmed that the developer/publisher never "makes a conscious decision not to continue supporting" a Nintendo series.
"Why was F-Zero abandoned?" he said in an interview with VentureBeat. "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.
"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."
Does that mean we'll definitely get another F-Zero game, 20 years after the last? Sadly not. but it does suggest that Nintendo's innovations and advancements mean there is always a chance a brand-new idea may resurrect an age-old series… even if that series is 30 years old now.
Did you know that a realistic F-Zero was reportedly turned down by Nintendo? That's according to a developer who made the pitch demo.
Last year, Giles Goddard - an ex-Nintendo developer and Vitei CEO - opened up about what the game was and detailed
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