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albionus on 01 December 2007
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takeru51 said:
albionus said:
takeru51 said:
I think that Pilotwings is incredibly likely as well. Although I didn't think it was a very good game, a lot of people, Matt and Bozon included, did. It will be a game that was around in the 1990's. If it was Kid Icarus, they wouldn't have said you had to be over 12 to appreciate it, since you'd have to be a pretty good deal older than 12 (in system terms) to appreciate Kid Icarus.

I think it was a throwaway comment. Bozon was so excited he just picked an age to represent "children" and 12 is the first that came to mind. I think he could have just as easily said 16 or even 18. That being said a 16 year old, if he was into reading video game magazines and websites, would have heard about the demand for a Kid Icarus game. It only comes up at least once a year in IGN, Nintendo Power, EGM, gamespot, and such.


I think they would wait to see how Pit was received in SSBB first. That's what they did with Fire Emblem, wasn't it?

Normally I would think that it was just a throwaway comment, and that I was reading too much into it, but they seemed to have very specifically chosen a time frame, and it was not the late 1980's.


Perhaps, we won't know for sure until the game is released.  At least in Japan though Fire Emblem has been in pretty much continous production.  It just seems this is so huge that if it has to be something older than the N64.  Getting a new Pilotwings game would be cool for example but it's nothing to be making this much of a fuss about.  It could be huge because of something other than the game is really old of course.   For example Zelda 64 and Metroid Prime were huge because they were Nintendo's top tier franchises not so much because of the 5 and 7 year waits.  However, Nintendo doesn't have any such top tier franchises that would make a huge splash on name alone.  So it seems the excitement has to be based on time scale not name.  Not saying Kid Icarus isn't a big name, it was back in the day but admittedly fewer gamers remember that each year.