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Forums - Nintendo - Criterion was approached to make a launch F-Zero U (UPDATE: It was just an e-mail)

GameMasterPC on 24 June 2015

Criterion is owned by EA, so maybe Nintendo approached the wrong developer? I mean of course for EA NFS: MW was the priority over a Wii U exclusive game.



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Chris Hu on 24 June 2015
LipeJJ said:
Would've been a great game. Criterion is an amazing developer!


Don't you mean was.  The Criterion that made all the Burnout games and Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012) doesn't exist anymore.  Most of the key people have left the company as of 2014 they are down to 25 employees.



LipeJJ on 24 June 2015
Chris Hu said:
LipeJJ said:
Would've been a great game. Criterion is an amazing developer!


Don't you mean was.  The Criterion that made all the Burnout games and Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012) doesn't exist anymore.  Most of the key people have left the company as of 2014 they are down to 25 employees.

Yeah, you're right. They were, unfortunately they are not anymore. I'll miss them so much...



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Chris Hu on 24 June 2015

Criterion was already close to being disband then. Nintendo could have just got most of the best people from the company and started a new developer to make the next F-Zero game.



TomaTito on 24 June 2015
RolStoppable said:
TomaTito said:

That was launch, but what happened after the release of NFS:MW?
After Criterion ported the WiiU version, where was the follow up pitch?
No other studios to try?

EA blacklisted the Wii U, that's what happened.

Nintendo doesn't hand out their IPs to just anyone, and the truth is that there aren't many options when it comes to non-realistic racing games.

Yeah, Bofferbrauer already reminded me of that. Somehow EA has completely gone from my mind. Not sure why.

That second part is also true, reason why we haven't seen it in a decade.
They could return to Sega or go through Sumo Digital directly.



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TomaTito on 25 June 2015

Apparently it was only an e-mail...

Dunno how to embed twitter posts, here's a quote instead:

Alex Ward said:

Doing work for hire has never interested me.
It was only an email - nothing more serious.
So we had nothing to turn down.

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