Samus Aran said:
hsrob said:
Samus Aran said:
FarleyMcFirefly said:
I really hate it when people beg Retro for a new Metroid game.
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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.
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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.
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Metroid Prime sold 5 times as much on the same install base. ;)
F-Zero on the GBA sold 160k copies lol. Ten times less than Metroid: Fusion.
So the two latest F-Zero games bombed hard... You want to give it a third chance?
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There were two other paragraphs in my post, conveniently overlooked ;)
Nintendo have made sequels to games that have sold less and not made sequels to games that have sold more.
F-Zero would not be a big risk to make. They could even use the MK engine.
