14 DAY TRIAL // Star Fox may not have a lot of support from the executive board, and the series hasn't seen a new release in three years, but besides the fans, there is at least one person out there that loves the game. In the last years, all the title got was an episodic appearance in Super Smash Bros., but it deserves a lot more attention than a little pity-hug. In an interview with MTV Multiplayer, Shigeru Miyamoto confessed his love for the series. "I'm a big fan of the Star Fox games," he said.
"Every time we make a Star Fox game I'm hoping people will enjoy it as much as I do. Of course the goal every time is to try and make it more and more fun but, at least in Japan, the [number of] people that purchase the Star Fox games has decreased over the years." Well, maybe that's not as big of a surprise as he would make it seem. Sales for the game would definitely pick up if a new game was actually released. After all, it's only so much one can expect from a game, in terms of long-term productivity. It's bound to die out over time, as the graphics become obsolete and since the publicity for the game ends as soon as it is launched.
In the end, Miyamoto added that, "We still try to make them more fun and hopefully people will see the appeal in those games." The latest game in the series, the three-year-old one, is Star Fox Command and it was released on the Nintendo DS. The game easily proved that it was a big hit with the fans. The community has given birth to anything from the vast quantity of fan-art to a complete Freespace 2 mod to ease the time's passing until the next game arrives.
Unfortunately, it seems like even all these acts of dedicated loyalty, along with even Shigeru's hopes of a new Star Fox, aren't enough to convince Q-Games to make another sequel. Dylan Cuthbert, who was involved with both the SNES and the Nintendo DS versions of the Fox, said that he doubted a new Star Fox would be made by the studio anytime soon. You would think that, even if the company won't pay that much attention to the fans, the words of the game designer that gave birth to Mario, Donkey Kong and The Legend of Zelda franchises would be taken a bit more into consideration. It looks like Miyamoto doesn't have so much pull in the gaming industry as he once did, and it's really a shame to see that.