Status of F-Zero answered in the latest annual shareholder meeting

This year brings another Nintendo Annual Shareholder meeting. At that meeting, one shareholder asked Suntaro Furukawa - the president of Nintendo - whether the company had reconsidered relaunching some fan-favorite game franchises, specifically F-Zero. The fan bought 100 shares of stock - amounting to 5.6 million yen, or 40,000 US Dollars - to specifically ask about the status of F-Zero.

Sephazon translated Furukawa's response on VGC.

"It is realistically difficult to develop new titles and remakes, including sequels, for every Nintendo game that people request, but we are very grateful and appreciate the expectations our fans have for our games."

The shareholder confirmed the accuracy of VGC's translation.

Shinya Takahashi - Nintendo's Senior managing executive officer - also provided a response to the question [Thanks, VGC!]

“During the 79th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders in 2019, we were asked if there were any plans to remake the Famicom Detective Club series, and, at that time, we happened to be planning a remake. That is an example where we were already actively developing such a title.

We cannot tell you if there are any plans for future remakes of any specific game, but, during development, we are always thinking about various possibilities that players can enjoy.”

The F-Zero series has not received a new game in over 15 years, but fans can still play F-Zero and F-Zero X on Nintendo Switch online. The latter requires the Nintendo Switch Expansion Pack.

Author's Note: Wow, over 40,000 dollars spent just to ask one question. That's dedication.

Credits:
Editing & Writing - Thirdkoopa
Translations for VGC - @Sephazon

 

considering how badly the last couple games did im not surprised their reluctant to try again

 

What wasn’t mentioned how much this fan spent to ask that question…

 

The last F-Zero game I played was Climax on the GBA. It would be brilliant if there were another F-Zero game in the works.

 

What wasn’t mentioned how much this fan spent to ask that question…

do we know the exact figure?

 

do we know the exact figure?

It said it in the article that was linked. Roughly 40,000 USD. It was obviously in yen though.

 

It said it in the article that was linked. Roughly 40,000 USD. It was obviously in yen though.

good grief

 

Probably they wanted to kill Excite and F-Zero series as they noticed it can’t make as much money as Mario Kart which disappointing it had to die for that cause.
Nintendo can make a new Excite and F-Zero game but they always try to look for excuses even kids nowadays can make new game so why can’t one of the biggest companies do that? It’s literally just a racing game

 

Probably they wanted to kill Excite and F-Zero series as they noticed it can’t make as much money as Mario Kart which disappointing it had to die for that cause.
Nintendo can make a new Excite and F-Zero game but they always try to look for excuses even kids nowadays can make new game so why can’t one of the biggest companies do that? It’s literally just a racing game

that makes no sense. It’s like saying they don’t want to make Kirby because it can’t make as much money as Mario

 

that makes no sense. It’s like saying they don’t want to make Kirby because it can’t make as much money as Mario

Majority of Kirby games is carried by Hal Laboratory so that’s a different developers
While the same team who did majority of Mario Kart games is the same as F-zero games

 

Majority of Kirby games is carried by Hal Laboratory so that’s a different developers
While the same team who did majority of Mario Kart games is the same as F-zero games

yeah and they handed f-zero over to sega on occasion so that puts it in the same place as kirby. f-zero isnt dormant because of mario kart's success but its own short comings. thinking that one dev team only makes one game series per genre just isnt true. hal makes kirby and boxboy, SE makes multiple rpgs, nintendo made tomodachi life while they still had animal crossing and then of course they were still making mario platformers when they were making wario land or when they had other people make DK games, intelligent systems makes both paper mario and fire emblem

 

What wasn’t mentioned how much this fan spent to ask that question…

Fixed.

 

How can you top F-Zero GX's story? I think that can easily explain why the F-Zero series has been lying dormant for so long.

 

How can you top F-Zero GX's story? I think that can easily explain why the F-Zero series has been lying dormant for so long.

Parts of my brain exploded when

Spoiler: F-Zero GX's amazing finale

the bad guy reveals that there is an F-Zero tournament in Hell as well, and that combining the belts of the two champions, aka Light and Darkness, would give the power to destroy the universe. And the rest of my brain blew-up when the three gods who created the world tell you that's it's actually bull**** and challenge you to a race to... rip your soul of your body. But captain Falcon beats them, so they die, and the world is saved.

True story.

 

honestly i'd just be happy with a GX HD remaster that includes Online and AX mode built in

 

The only way I can see a F-Zero revivals is made a NSO exclusive game. Much like other usually asked games like Prime Hunters and Pokémon Stadium.

 

F-Zero has some wealthy fans huh?

 

So in short: there will be no F-Zero. Wish he could've spend the money on asking about Donkey Kong instead.

 

Honestly, even if you have zero game development skills, you could use that money to hire a small team of developers and marketers and launch a crowdfunding campaign and make a spiritual successor to F-Zero.

 

With that money, he probably could have gotten a custom made car modeled after the Blue Falcon lol.