Miyamoto: Remakes “lead to future developments.”

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angrypoolman said:

this is an excuse. is the argument that people would buy it because its star fox 64 and not a new star fox? it still could have easily just been its own game. there was zero point in making it star fox 64.

It's to get devs used to tools/engine hardware with a smaller project. So the devs of this tears Star Fox probably working on a larger game. This has become fairly common practice in more recent years as development becomes more complex.