Respected, but rather harsh, gaming publication EDGE, has a bumper interview with famed SEGA developer Toshihiro Nagoshi. During the interview Mr. Nagoshi touched on the fact that he had made a proposal for a Metroid game in the past to Nintendo, but sadly the idea was rejected by the company. He didn’t elaborate what the pitch was or the time frame to EDGE. Here’s what was said:
“I really liked the Super Famicom game, and while we made a few proposals – Metroid for instance, and others – I was most confident in making a driving game because of my experience in the genre, though I’d never make a sci-fi one.”
I wonder how that would have gone
Well, they made F-Zero instead, and it was excellent. Toshihiro Nagoshi has, imo, never made a bad game.
I want Sega to make a Metroid game now!
Weird. For whatever reason, I can’t imagine that would have ended up too great.
Considering how badly things go with their own IP, I dread to think what would have happened to Metroid.
and yet they made a better F-Zero game than Nintendo ever could
SEGA made an F-Zero game? Not gonna lie, I did not know that.
Sega and av Amusements (known for the first two Super Monkey Ball games) helped work on F-Zero GX for the Gamecube. I think they partnered up with Nintendo to develop it rather than do it all on their own.
I ser what you did there
Yeah they did but I honestly don’t know if they are gonna do it again.
They wouldn’t be doing it again.
If they had made Metroid, it would’ve been instead of F-Zero GX.
Considering GX is one of the greatest games of all time, to the point where Nintendo gave up on ever surpassing it, chances are Sega’s Metroid would’ve been somewhat decent.
That made no sense whatsoever
Oh is that so?
Not sure what you’re on about, most of SEGA’s IP’s, beside Sonic, have been excellent. And they ended up making the best F-Zero game possible so…
Yeah but I don’t know if SEGA will ever do another partnership with Nintendo and make a F-zero game like that again. So, it’s just gonna be in another development company like Platinum studios or some random studios like retro studios who did Donkey Kong country returns. Actually scratch that. Tropical Freeze.
Bounty Buggy Racers
I doubt it would have been worth it.
They can’t even get Sonic right.
They made F-Zero GX
Yeah but there is no way they can do it again?.
The staff isnt even the same most likely.
That F zero released over a decade ago.
No. No. No. No. & HELL NO SEGA!! In this case I’m with Nintendo.
I’m saying this many times already but Sega made F-Zero GX
We got it bro, no need to spam your bs here. First of all F zero N64 was better and second The team behind at Sega already left years ago. We are talking about the present and future here if you still didn’t get it.
No need to spam your wanna be smarty pants here.
But this proposal was also in the past. What’s your point? Also both F-Zero X and GX were received just about the same so whichever is better is subjective.
Don’t trust SEGA with any Nintendo properties.
They made F-Zero GX :/
But that was back when Amusement Vision still existed, the same developer that made Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2, also great games.
No thank you Sega… Fix Sonic, Shinobi and whatever other IP i might give a shit about before coming to ask for Metroid…
I guess, as things are now, a Sega metroid game would be worse than Metroid Other M…. Heck, It could be worse than Federation Force….
Metroid Prime Federation Force Battle Royale…… Shit No!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes they did, and it was the last f Zero game we’ve had.
Surely it’s time for another.
Sega have had a bad rap lately so a new follow up to gx could do them wonders.
So long as it don’t involve that flea ridden spikey thing
Dude, tone it down…
Me?
Well SEGA help Nintendo made F-zero. So, I don’t think they will do another one with SEGA if that’s the case.
Sega made a futuristic racing game using one of Nintendo’s IPs. What was it called again?
Fast Racing Zero GX
No. 1000x NO.
It was called Metroid: Colonial Marines.
LMAO
Sega can’t even make good sonic games!
If they had PG do it, then they might have something
Naah.. gime something metroid fusion quality. Actual 2D metroid for 3ds is soo poor. I need dktropicalfreeze quality 2D metroid game.. with mysterious story, secret places and hard obtain secret weapons, run for life sections and some hard without suit levels..
Maybe not… I don’t want a bunch of glitches in the game
Back in the 90s? I’d be up for Sega doing a Metroid game. Today?