It’s been a while since the site was functional, due to real-life obligations and site issues. During that time, a few important items of Star Fox news occurred. This is a summary of what happened.
October 27, 2009
Just before Halloween, Mr. Miyamoto was quoted saying that he was saddened by Japan’s apparent lack of interest in the Star Fox series. He loves the series, but he said he was forgetful of it (no surprise, since his job now requires him to oversee every major Nintendo project).
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I can’t help but make the connection many Star Fox fans already make: Star Fox these days has become less of a flying game, and more of a third-person shooter game. Dylan Cuthbert was quoted a while back saying Mr. Miyamoto wants Star Fox to be about more than Arwings and flying, and many of us believe that lack of focus results in sub-par games.
August 21, 2009
Nintendocu.com posted an obviously fake Nintendo Power cover, purported to be the image for the next month’s issue. It contained several Arwings, the Great Fox, and an ambiguous background. They, or whoever made the fake, applied the most noobish of techniques when making fakes: using old game renders to advertise a new game. That NEVER happens in real game leaks. There’s ALWAYS new art. Anyway, when they realized it was fake, they admitted it (good for them).
Then, in the same article, they posted that the domain “starfox.com” had been renewed by Nintendo. This is other issue of late. Late last year, or early this year, Nintendo started reeling in their old game sites, including all the sites related to a specific game. They did this just as we at Starfox-Online had finished making backup copies of all the sites, so they are still available on the site. Anyway, Nintendo redirects most old sites to their homepage (nintendo.com), but a few were reworked into series-specific setups, such as metroid.com). Nintendo will no-doubt rework starfox.com into a whole-series setup like the others, but that will probably come along when the next game comes out. That is to say, there’s no reason to believe that JUST because they renewed the domain, that they must necessarily be working on a Star Fox game, or are close to releasing one. This is not evidence of it. It’s only evidence that Nintendo wishes to maintain its intellectual property.
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April 4, 2009
Everyone, including us, reported on what Dylan Cuthbert said in his interview in April. He didn’t want to make Star Fox Wii, the Wii is a toy, Miyamoto likes Star Fox outside of the cockpit, and furries are weird (Ok, I’ll give you the last one).
What isn’t as often reported is that he responded to the criticism made about his comments, the next day, in fact. Unfortunately, few people noticed what he said to clear up matters. I think he did a reasonable job too. The only potential problem is that he made his response as a comment on an article where his interview was posted. There’s no way for any of us to verify that it was really him saying it, but the comment does seem to be in line with what Dylan was saying, so I believe it. Here are his responses:
Um.. just like to point out here (this is Dylan of Q-Games) that I wasn’t having a dig at Miyamoto at all.
I was just explaining how he works – he gets on and does his thing. He is an amazing creator and that’s what amazing creators do.
And the comment regarding not wanting to make a Wii Starfox is clear, it would take a very large team and right now I am having a lot of fun with smaller teams. That’s all there is to it really. That’s how I intended the comment not as “Dylan spurns Starfox, shock horror!”.
I also say the Wii is “more” of a toy and it is. It’s not derogatory, the Wii is a great machine with lots of bells and whistles and this makes it feel (to me) to be more toy-like. In comparison the PS3/XBOX360 are more “media center”-like.
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