We have all wanted an F-Zero title to come to the Wii U and we nearly received one. Liam Robertson is reporting that Nintendo approached Criterion Games, the company behind Burnout and Need for Speed, to ask them whether they would be interested in developing the futuristic racing series for Wii U. The company approached Criterion Games back in 2011, but the developer was too busy with other projects to commit to such a task.
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ask the guys from fast racing neo
THIS ^
Imagine if they make these guys and some of the developers of Mario Kart 8 work on a new F-Zero!! That would be amazing!! :”D
Sorry by these guys I mean Shinen
Criterion did work on the magnificent Burnout series, so that would be great
At least it increases the chances to about 100% that a new F-Zero game is planned.
Pretty sure that was the whole point of their game. I guess they would have better luck just asking them to make it into f-zero (wouldn’t mind if it got delayed to make the switch
Criterion Games just made it to the top of my shit list!
Nice Persona reference.
Criterion sold their soul to EA, So no surprise they want nothing to do with the Wiiu
Well they lost a big opportunity to probably make their best game of all time.
so the comment of “we need a new controller” or what ever miyamoto said was bs indeed
He talked about if he himself were to develop F-Zero, however he never ruled out possibility of other devs working out on this series.
And the fact that Nintendo (more specifically NoE) has been talks with other devs regarding this series just shows that they still have interest to do something with it. We never know what happens behind the closed doors, but darn they were considering F-Zero as an launch title to sell people WiiU´s that speaks volumes that they have fate for F-Zero games. Maybe they are behind the scenes atm working with some other 3rd parties to develop new F-Zero.
Maybe but this was four years ago.
I understand that, just a glimmer of hope that maybe these 4 years Nintendo has been works with some other developer to develop new F-Zero.
*Next year at E3 Nintendo announces F-Party, C.Falcon is wearing dress while he waves his arms at the trailer that showcases board styled F-Zero which requires amiibo to play* Just joking.
I would love an F-Zero amiibo range. That and Mario Kart 8 as well.
That scenario with Captain Falcon waving at the camera in a dress, but instead they reveal Falcon’s Row, a new free-roam open world game in the style of Saints Row or GTA, with the intense driving and depth of GTA but with the immense power you can get in Saints Row
With F Zero characters and powers.
Imagine Falcon Punching future cops.
Criterion is EA and EA hates Nintendo so obiously they were gonna say NO.
EA was still making games for Nintendo at that time. This was 2011.
I literally cannot talk right now… Are you kidding?
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Damn son… So did they ask bungie to make the next Metroid but they said no so we got crap lol
the series doesn’t sell enough to have a 3rd party work on it
I think we forgot about this key information that could explain all the spinoffs at e3 and the future works for Nintendo
http://mynintendonews.com/2014/11/02/miyamoto-nintendo-is-looking-to-create-more-spin-off-games-and-work-with-more-third-party-developers/
Daaaaamn iiiiiit! Oh man I just want a new F-zero :(
It might sound weird, but I think that Platinum could make an excellent F-Zero game. F-Zero is usually pretty over-the-top, like most Platinum games, and Platinum could make it even crazier.
Platinum, Shine´en or SumoDigital would find a way to revive excellent F-Zero racer.
Or Retro Studios. I mean, they did help with Mario Kart 7.
It doesn’t sound weird. Platinum make great games and they would be my first 2nd Party developer choice for F-Zero.
Don’t you mean 3rd party, and don’t you mean Sega since they help with GX/AX.
This proves that NoE Shibata and others care about games, unlike big mouth Reggie.
Anyways, they refused because they were busy with NFSMW, they couldnt had concentrated for the project 100% if they would had agreed with Nintendo. It would have made WiiU launch ultimately awesome though if there was F-Zero game for the system.
What im thinking right now is that perhaps after Criterion refused they might have went to talk with other 3rd parties to develop F-Zero, i doubt Nintendo only looked at one dev as a solution for this series, there must been others they have talked aswell. And that brings the second thought, perhaps at the moment some developers out there somewhere are developing F-Zero for either WiiU or NX (probably for NX launch) that Nintendo hasnt been ready to showcase yet.
Miyamoto never said there wont be new F-Zero, he was talking specifically about him self developing and that he is out of ideas, this is why Nintendo has approached other devs with this series, Amusement Vision and more recently Criterion.
And to those who are like,”They refused cause EA hates Nintendo” No, this is long before Nintendo/Ea debacle, so calm your tits.
Dodged a bullet there, if you ask me.
Anyway, this proves they’re looking for a chance to put a new F-Zero on the market, which is good news to me.
i thought nintendo didnt care for the series but reading this really gave me hope for a F-Zero game
Yeah. They sure did dodge a bullet. Considering how EA has treated Nintendo since the Wii U, I bet EA would have sabotaged F-Zero in some way as another means to fuck over the console.
I doubt this were true or even happening and worse, ask one of the developers who sided with motherfucking EA?
Let us have this glimmer of hope, that a new F-Zero game could be released eventually. I say give the project to Platinum Games or Retro Studios.
Retro needs to get back into the Metroid game, Platinum is already handling Star Fox well so all that leaves us with one studio: Intelligent Systems.
retro doesn’t NEED to , it will be nice but they can whatever they want not just metroid
Retro maybe should’ve worked on Star Fox instead. They made Metroid a lot more interesting in first person, they could’ve done the same for Star Fox in third person with classic dogfights, like maybe make a better version of Assault.
that’s sounds awesome!! maybe next time
That is if Nintendo grows any fucking ears and brains to take words of advice from fans who straight up have better ideas than these sad clowns of today.
I hope Stranga’s significant other dies of cancer. There i said it, whoa what a relief off my chest…
I hope your Church burns to the ground and the shrine you built for your ‘Idol’ Sasori, crumbles under the rubble of the burning building. R.I.P asshole.
>>>Go and pray to your imaginary deity who doesn’t even like you either>>>
Huh at least Nintendo thought about the franchise at least.
An Open World F-Zero would be awesome!
Also, Bugbear would be a great choice to develop this as most of the guys who working on Burnout moved to Bugbear.
Has everyone forgot that the best F-Zero was made with Sega?
Not me, but that was in 2003, before Sega couldn’t even handle its own mascot anymore. If they manage to turn around and start delivering top-of-the-line games again, then I’d be okay with them lending a hand on a Nintendo franchise.
Except for the fact this was before Sega fell & became the joke it is today. So like TheManofBrisk said, unless Sega MIRACULOUSLY turns itself around, I don’t want them anywhere near Nintendo’s titles.
So the franchise isn’t as abandoned as I thought. Not good news that it didn’t work out, but I’ll take the pitch as an effort to get another one out there. Silver lining.
So happy to hear anything about F-Zero.
“too busy” for an F-Zero game…. priorities damnit!
Hopefully we’ll get one sometime
If they had taken it up it would be the first Criterion game I ever purchased.
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