Game Informer has put together an interesting list of developers that they would like to see tackle key Nintendo franchises. Of course, it’s unlikely that any of these will come into fruition, but we can dream. Team Ninja developed Metroid: Other M, so who knows what may happen. What do you think to the developer choices?
- Firaxis on Pikmin
- WayForward on Metroid (sidescroller)
- From Software on The Legend of Zelda
- Ubisoft Montpellier on Super Mario Bros.
- Konami on 3D Metroid
- Criterion on F-Zero
Take out Konami on 3d Metroid and it’s perfect
…this is the only one that actually sounded good though…
Konami doesnt even know what to do with bomberman :(
Konami is the only one I want…all the others would probably go astray.
Take out Ubisoft from Mario and perhaps I agree
Why? Rayman Origins/Legends don’t qualify as great platformers?
Mario platformers are fine as is, why ruin a good thing by bringing in an foreign party?
Origins/Legends destroy NSMBWii/U. Someone get this to Ubisoft to make a 2D Mario game that could potentially stack up to the likes of World.
No it dosnt. Legends is great but after you beat the level once their is no replay value like the 2d Mario’s.
Agree. And while I’m not very found of the NSMB games, NSMBU is one of my favorite 2D Mario Games.
Mario doesn’t need a “Rayman” make over, people love Mario as is, Nintendo style
I would love a 2D Mario even more if Ubisoft took over the 2D Mario platformer. Rayman Legends kicks ass. You Nintendo fans are just not sticking to NSMBU being better only because it went multiplat.
What I liked better on Legends than NSMBU was you could pick any character you wanted, it used more GamePad function than 2D Mario and it was sort of funny and lastly, but not most important, the graphics looked better. Agree, Rayman Legends is better than NSMBU.
“Mario platformers are fine as is, why ruin a good thing by bringing in an foreign party?”
What’s really special about NSMBU? All it is is the Wii version with just toe ability to play off tv mode. Rayman Legends you had to open doors and cages while a character was running with the swipe of a finger. Plus, some bad guys you had to tickle them inorder to get pass them. That’s next gen capability right there.
Talking about next gen capabilities.. I see that no developer has used the Wii U gamepad to it’s advantage.The Wii U is basically a high-def Nintendo DS snapped in half. I’m pretty sure anyone can come up with an innovate way to use the gamepad. I mean.. They did it with the DS.
Firaxis should work on battalion wars but I would have prefered big huge games instead.
i will pre order that game no second thoughts.
F-Zero by Criterion? Eff yes, that would be amazing.
Retro should do 3D Metroid.
SEGA On F-Zero
Montpellier NO. They make a great platformer, sure. But they excell at tightness of controls, and charm of design. Mario is all about level design, though, and in that regard it destroys Rayman. I would hate to see Mario with Montpellier’s kind of level design.
Also Konami NO. That’s the dumbest one there. They don’t deserve to touch Metroid. Leave it with Retro.
3D Mario being better than 3D Rayman? Sure. But in 2D, I hope you aren’t serious.
I agree with you marthfaceguy. I think Rayman Legends was better than 2D Mario. Rayman Legends was closer to using NFC technology than 2D Mario and used more of the GamePad. And you can race others online. Player one isn’t just stuck with one character neither. It was funny, The graphics loooked better. The music was better.
Rayman legends is far better than what nintendo did for new super mario bros u
Platinum on anything 3D.
Nintendo on Mega Man.
Agreed, Nintendo could do wonders with Mega Man
Nintendo on Banjo.
Shed a tear when I seen this post, sadly it will not happen.
Konami on 3D Metroid, seriously?!?!?. What do you want? lots of cutscenes and no game at all?? Retro is 100x Konami.
The best 3rd party developer to work on any of Nitnendo’s franchises was Rareware back in the N64 days. RIP Rare. RIP Banjo. Starfox Assult wasn’t like Starfox 64 or Starfox Adventures. RIP all you games that were developed for Nintendo. How I will miss you alll. Banjo-Kazooie, I so miss you and wish you were with Retro.
Wait, I got to take that back Platium has done a hell of a job with W101 though. Sorry. But that is one hell of a game one hell of a game indeed. I love it.
I’ll go for Ubisoft Montpellier developing a new Mario game. Ubisoft on Mario would be fine by me.
Yeah Ubisoft works on 2D Mario game using functions on the Gamepad and Nintendo focuses on making it difficult because ubisoft sucked in that area.
Yes to all except for Konami. Fuck Konami.
Give 3D Metroid to Shinji Mikami, i’d love to see what he’d do with it, seeing as he made Resident Evil, and also directed the best 3rd person shooter ever, Vanquish.
ubiart metroid would be my preference + retro 3d metroid
I mean rayman legends is one of the best looking games ever with some very metroidy locations. I would love it I’m sure.
Rayman and his gang would make interesting Smash Bros Characters. Also. Ubisoft stages from Legends would have been great too.
Rayman Legends 2D side looks better than Tropical Freeze. .And Tropical Freeze doesn’t even use the GamePad’s potential like Raymand Legends.
First of all, none if these will ever happen…
Second, Mario games are good as they are, just stop with the NSMB series…
Third, I don’t want any Electron base defiling our sacred games!
Ignoring you don’t on a Wii u therefore you don’t own Legends so you don’t know.
Oh NC, maybe you should just get a WiiU, everyone here will just keep holding that against you
Unlike them I actually am busy…
I didn’t even mention Legends?…
Ignoring the comments that brought up NSMBU vs Raykan Legends and you responded when some brought Ubisoft should work on 2D Mario games. Therfore you didnt have to bring up Legends.
I will not mind that they give the Mario franchise to work to someone else, I’m kinda fed up of the art style Mario seem to adopt forever after Sunshine. I miss those time in which Mario was the one that was always changing art style which every game before it became a Zelda thing.
Shin’en Fzero
Retro the best for Metroid
Miyamoto please stay at pikmin
Nintendo EAD please stay Mario
Anumo please stay at Zelda
So the only one i think is right, shin’en cause those guys are waaaay better then the most developers, and they are not that big like the most.
Were Oracle of Seasons/Ages any good? If so then maybe Capcom should give another go at an overhead Zelda game.
NEVER PLAYED THOSE BUT MINISH CAP DEV BY CAPCOM WAS MY FAVORITE HANDHELD GAME UNTIL A LINK BETWEEN WORLDS.
this is one of the worst lists ever put together
LOL WORST LIST OF DEVS EVER.
WAYFORWARD ON METROID 2D THE SAME PPL WHO MADE THAT SHITAE (SHANTAE) MESS. LMAO
I WANNA KNO WHAT GI ARE SMOKING
All I think is that Shin’en should be on every game polishing graphics, cos they seem to be the only ones understading hardware lol
From Software is one of the worst developers out there. I wouldn’t want them to touch Zelda at all. They will ruin it.
Aww Byakugan, you’re saying random stuff again…
Why would Nintendo even bother out sourcing their own IPs? They would bother doing that. Retro are an exception because they have done very well with DK. If it were to happen then Nintendo would only test the companies as they don’t compromise quality.
Ignoring Rare worked on Starfox and DK tittles. Also ignoring we want nintendo to do a DK64 sequel where Rareware Left off.
That’s a fairly decent list. I mean they all have proven themselves many times by the past, it could be great. New Metroid and F-Zero would be absolutely amazing.
I only agree with Criterion making F-Zero and Firaxis making Pikmin.
Konami making 3D Metroid? Really, what 3D games has Konami made besides Castlevania recently?
If anything Konami needs to be concentrating on a remake of Mystical Ninja for the Wii U and making a 3D version of Mystical Ninja 64 for the 3DS
Not really.
Platinum Games on Star Fox
Didn’t Kamiya say he wasn’t interested anymore because of raving idiots pestering him on Twitter?
Criterion on F-Zero? Fuck yeah man. That sounds pretty sweet.
Criterion Games – Crusin’ USA, F-Zero
Platinum Games – Starfox, Kid Icarus
Retro Studios – Metroid, new fighting game
That is all for me. No one has any business develop a Mario or Zelda game besides Nintendo. Period.
You can say that in all honesty, oracle of ages and seasons were made by Capcom and theydid a mighty fine job
Um…..what…does that have to do what I said?
You said no one has business developing a Zelda game besides Nintendo, but Capcom were the ones who developed both Oracles games, not Nintendo.
The Oracles series was not done by Capcom. It was down by Flagship which was a company funded by Capcom, Nintendo, and Sega.
The entire Oracle series sold less than 4 million copies worldwide. Hardly anything to shout about not really a necessary point of contention. If you loved those GB games then good for you. My stance that no one has any business making a Zelda or Mario game (and this means a regular platform title and not some game outside the norm like Hyrule Warriors or something like that) besides Nintendo. You are entitled to your opinion, and I am entitled to mine. Leave it a that.
Wayfoward on metroid sidescroller on 3dsYES! If that’s the Ubisoft team that I believe to be the same one that worked on rayman origins/legends I would love to see what they do with the series. I don’t know if we could trust criterion. Other than that I’m not sure about the others.
I think Nintendo EAD does a fine job with Mario. No need to change that. Really. Ubisoft is great, but Nintendo’s working with it wonderfully.
None said it… Nintendo – All Nintendo franchises.
Since Kamiya basically said “Fuck you!” to Star Fox thanks to certain fans on Twitter, Treasure should be up for it now that they are finished with Gaist Crusher. Since it’s been a while since he’s last mention wanting to do a Nazo no Murasame-Jo reboot, I’m betting that would be his next project after Bayonetta 2.
I don’t agree with any of them. And they left out Starfox…
I would like Media Molecule on Kirby. (even though that’s never going to happen)
Firaxis on Pikmin
WayForward on Metroid (sidescroller)
From Software on The Legend of Zelda
Ubisoft Montpellier on Super Mario Bros.
Konami on 3D Metroid
Criterion on F-Zero
What a bunch of fucking retards. At least put a developer on Pikmin that makes fucking RTS games. All Firaxis does are turn based games. Morons. Ubisoft on Mario? Fuck that. Konami how about no. Criterion no they make shit games.
I would want co-development to go like this:
2D Mario with the guy that did Full Screen Mario
The Legend of Zelda (console)-Bethesda
3D Metroid- Treyarch or Bungie (for multiplayer purposes)
2D Metroid-Wayforward
Zelda Action game with Byrne-Platinum Games
Zelda (handheld)-Capcom
Star Fox-Treasure
F-Zero-Criterion or Shinen
Startropics III-Atlus
Mother 4-Mistwalker
Pokemon-Blizzard
Pikmin-Firaxis
Kirby-Sega
Kid Icarus-Treasure or Platinum Games
Punch Out!!-EA sports
3D Donkey Kong-Rare
Yoshi-Sega
I would like to see Bethesda Games Studio develop a Zelda game
I would love to see the Rayman team make a NSMB game. Have stages where Mario has to walljump, slide and swing on vines while the stage around him crumbles would be great.
Christ no!
From Games should never work on Zelda, they’d only make the game stupidly punishing and uncreative.
I think Platinum Games should be doing a zelda spin off action game not tecmo koei. And I think Konami doing a 3D metroid would suck.
Ubisoft on SMB? Criterion on F-Zero? I guess if you wanted those games to be so-so, then yea sure go for that. I’m not sure why the conversation of other developers handling Nintendo IPs should ever even be brought up. If anyone can do games, it’s Nintendo.
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