Why Star Fox 2 was never released?

[NightDragon83]

Snesboy said:

NightDragon83 said:
Old news is old... I knew about this back when the "Nintendo 64" was still called the "Ultra 64!"

Sill, it would be nice if Nintendo were to release "StarFox 2" as a brand new title on WiiWare for just $8... I'd buy it! And besides, who the hell knows when we'll actually get a true update to the series.

May be old news but back in 1995, there weren't a whole lot of people with the internet.

That's true, but there were quite the number of gaming magazines and publications back in the mid 90's, which was pretty much how everyone got their news back then.  How do you think so many people knew about such huge news items like Square leaving Nintendo and FFVII going to Playstation?  It was all over every gaming mag back then!

Star Fox 2 was covered pretty extensively in most magazines during the summer of '95 not too long after E3, since it was originally planned for a fall release.  But then it was announced that the game had been canned in favor of an eventual Ultra 64/Nintendo 64 sequel.