RUMOR: Factor 5 FINISHED Pilotwings, Ninty not confident to publish it!

[Kenryoku_Maxis]

jarrod said:

richardhutnik said:

hsrob said:

JGarret said:
Damn Nintendo for outsourcing franchises...they did it with Star Fox, now Pilotwings..any other?

The best Star Fox games were, voila, developed by one of Nintendo´s internal teams...look at the results when they started outsourcing.

There may be some game(s) they outsourced that turned out ok or great and I´m not aware of, but the way I see it is 1st party titles should never be outsourced, at least not if the original title was quite good and acclaimed (like SF and Pilotwings for the SNES), but hey what do I know right?

F-Zero GX turned out pretty damn well.

Didn't Sega do that one, and it was also an arcade machine?

Yep.  Wasn't quite as well tuned as F-Zero X imo, but god it was stunning to look at...

Sure it was stunning to look at, but the difficulty was so frustrating, hardly anyone put up with playing it.  I only know two people who played through it, and only one of them enjoyed it.

That was the problem.  A difficulty curve BEYOND hardcore.  I've even tried going back and playing it three times and every time I got tried of the ruthless AI and rediculous objectives on event missions.