Samus Aran said:
Good for you, but if you read my post you would see I'm not doing that. http://www.vgchartz.com/game/695/f-zero-gx/ F-Zero doesn't deserve a sequel. |
I don't want Retro making it either but that's a silly claim.
The last F-Zero game was a great game, even if sales weren't that great. The same can't be said for the last Metroid game which only sold twice what F-zero GX did on 5 times the install base with, I'm willing to bet, a significantly higher budget. We can't judge a franchise just off the most recent entry.
Nintendo's criteria for whether or not to make a sequel can't be purely based on sales because if that was the case many more franchises could justifiably be on the fiscal chopping block with those funds directed towards Nintendo's genuine blockbuster franchises. As the (almost) sole developer on their console Nintendo has a responsibility to deliver as diverse a library as possible, even if that means releasing games that don't see stellar sales.
Furthermore to suggest that 200cc in Mario Kart 8 should somehow supplant the desire for an F-Zero game is patently ridiculous. You might as well argue that the need for a Metroid game should have been satisfied by the release of COD: Ghosts.
