IGN: "Watching Nintendo's E3 presentation, I was thrilled to see Mario Kart 8 adding an idea as simple and clever as hover karts. Suddenly tracks were freed from horizontal constraints, and courses could now spiral into wild vertical twists in ways they never could before.
Despite my excitement though, a thought crept into my head - if Mario Kart is now embracing futuristic, wild racing... what does that mean for F-Zero? Granted, we haven't seen an F-Zero entry in about a decade, but would Kart's hover karts help or hinder Captain Falcon's return?
The answer, unfortunately for Nintendo fans across the world, isn't too reassuring."
F-Zero has been a dormant franchise for a couple of decades now. In fact, if it weren’t for the obvious appearances that Captain Falcon has been making in Super Smash Bros. games, you could get the impression that Nintendo has forgotten all about the series.
Have a new F-Zero hit within the first 2 years of Switch 2 and watch it sell away.
Maybe Nintendo should learn to drop the prices on their games if they want more sales. I have seen games that are 4 years old on store shelves at full price.
I've had treasure tracker for the switch bookmarked since it was released waiting for the price to hit my sweet spot of 30 bucks...still waiting...
We haven't seen a lot of franchise's from Nintendo. Mario will always stay as the shit stain of Nintendo. Mario games are fun and Kirby but some times you get tired of seeing Mario everywhere literally everywhere. They are playing it safe.
F-Zero is one of Nintendo's most neglected franchises, but the high-speed racing title could stand out from Mario Kart and utilize modern graphics.
In the 16-bit era, game devs and composers could finally change the type of tones used in the music, simulating a wider array of instruments and creating a whole lot of great soundtracks in the process.
It wasn’t easy picking out the best of the best because there were so many great ones. Even middle-of-the-road soundtracks seemed to deserve a bump if the game was just that damn good, and so many from that era are that damn good!
Here's the Ghetto Gamer list of top 20 soundtracks from the 16-bit era.
THATS FUNNY
F-Zero caters to a different kind of crowd. GC's F-Zero and Mario Kart DD releases wasn't too far off each other. So, who knows?
Good,
I don't like Captain Falcon anyway he just looks like he does too much "Caine" and Gallons of Energy Drinks in SSB. (jk)
Actually, I think it could still happen because of Earth Bound WiiU. If that can happen- I can believe in miracles.
Now that we have Mario Kart 8 would F-Zero even be necessary?
Nonsense article. Mario Kart 8's new style leads me to believe that this teams next project will in fact be F-Zero. They are developing a solid racing engine with MK8 that incorporates F-Zero like physics that they will later be able to supercharge and enhance as they become more familiar with the hardware for the next F-Zero game. Nintendo may be thinking ahead in this regard.