Nintendo Would "Happily" Make Kid Icarus Wii

Yoshio Sakamoto, one of the creators behind popular Nintendo platformer Kid Icarus, says Nintendo hasn't ruled out bringing a new title in the series to the Wii, they just haven't yet figured out how to.

"I don't know personally about any project underway regarding Kid Icarus, but if so many of those people are interested in it and really want to see it on the Wii they should really speak up," Sakamoto told Kotaku in an interview today.

[eagle21]

Get to work Ninty. :)

[thorstein]

So, what is stopping them? Power outages? Lack of money? What?

"Hi, I have an incredible franchise that could pull in millions: but I don't like money."

[Christopher]

Edit: Weird, posted to the wrong story...

[presto717]

Sony and Microsoft are busting their asses but what is Nintendo doing? Milking sh*t. Nothing new from them

[N4g_null]

This post only has 25 comments. If you want it then you better speak up. So many come and have asked for this game yet they only comment on negative nintendo story. I think nintendo knows when smoke is being blown up it's azz lol. You guys don't want these games and even if you did get a chance to make it what would you want it to be a mega man 10? To test the waters then you can vote with your money.

[WildArmed]

Oh man that'd be interesting.

Nintendo has one of the most endeared characters in it's pocket and it's afraid to use half of em :(

[dktxx2]

"but if so many of those people are interested in it and really want to see it on the Wii they should really speak up"

ummm.. they haven been... since like e3 2008... when ur show really sucked and had no good core games on display...

hell, no kid icarus has been one of the reasons every year people are disappointed by your e3 exhibits

[blue7xx7]

They probably are making it they are just being coy about it until it's ready.

[Redempteur]

seriously since kid icarus appearance in smash bros , everyone want another game .. it's not like you have to market the character ..it's still fresh in the mind of gamers AKA "people will buy it"

GET TO WORK NINTENDO !!

[tristanmike]

Where the hell do I "Speak up" ? I've always wondered this. You'll see a company come out and say, "Here's what you've been asking for." but no one I know asked for whatever it is they were offering. Or conversely, you have Ninty saying, "You want it, speak loudly," but where ? Email ? Go to the corporate office ? Write my member of Parliament ? What mystical forum are these guys all on looking for what people supposedly want ?

Tell me, 'cause I'll go there and ask for this personally. :P

[chaostheory]

@ tristanmike
Send an E-mail or see if Nintendo has official forums and post it their. You don't need to ask in person you can use the internet. You probably don't even need to use Nintendo's official sight, game developers often use forum comments to show interest in a game or game feature when pitching to publishers so I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't keep track of major news and fan sites.

[holyorangecows2]

Then make it Nintendo people have been wanting this game for quite a while so what is stopping you.

[tunaks1]

let retro studios handle it

[bioshock1221]

This they know how to make great games Metroid prime 3 corruption was awesome.

[Valay]

Man...I'd really like to see Kid Icarus Wii.

[knightoftears]

Well then get work and stop talking about it Nintendo...lol. Bring the Kid to the next gen!!

[Bush]

Kid Icarus would be great Still have mine on my NES.

[ApocalypseShadow]

i bought kid icarus when it came out.

if they haven't made a sequel by now,they aren't even trying.

[Immortal321]

or you guys did not play GOW2.

[ShottySnipa417]

Yeah Icarus's fate is sealed. I won't explain how unless you got the picture when you see Kratos with wings.

[chaostheory]

I think they might be able to do something interesting with the archery similar to Twilight Princess. It might be fun if they something like a mixture of Legend of Zelda and Metroid Prime where you explore a large world and get power ups to open up the world to more and more exploration. I think gaining the ability to fly around the world by the end game could make exploration very fun. I think it would need to be in third person to feel right. Then again I never played the original so I don't know the strengths of that game or how its fans would react to my idea.

[supersonicsaga]

Where is my Starfox and Kirby Wii, Nintendo?!

[pcz]

Outside of Smash Bros i haven't heard of him, and i bet millions of others haven't either. And i actually consider myself a Nintendo 'enthusiast.'

Whoever he is, his games mustn't have made an impact for there not to have been an update for the last 20 years. I guess its just fans of the old games not letting go.

[Mahr]

It's a NES platformer that really wasn't all that distinguishable from the dozens of other platformers on the system save for the fact that it was produced by Gunpei Yokoi, who also produced the Metroid series.

[AWBrawler]

Pit just isn't famous enough to get his own game just yet. They are trying to figure out who to pitch him at? Should it be hardcore like Zelda and metroid? or Casualcore like Mario and pokemon?

[hatchimatchi]

seriously,

Kid Icarus is an awesome game but it's not anywhere near the status of metroid, zelda or mario.

I think some people trick themselves into thinking that they are part of something that was huge back on the NES but in actuality kid icarus was never an extremely popular game. Most people had metroid & the legend of zelda. Not a lot of people talked about kid icarus on the playground back then.

It's an awesome game but it wouldn't sell stellar (nintendo-style) numbers.

Just for an example, look at Metroid. Most people recognize Metroid games in stores and it's one of nintendo's most popular IP's. Metroid Prime 3 has sold about 1.5 million.

Lets compare that to mario kart & others...

mario kart wii: 21.22 million sold as of December 2009
wii music: As of January 2009, Wii Music has sold 2.5 million copies worldwide (miyamoto has expressed disappointment with these numbers...)
wii fit: 22.56 million copies sold as of December 30, 2009
mario galaxy: 8 million as of march 2009
zelda tp: roughly 6 million (both consoles)

Kid Icarus would not be a blockbuster seller and that's probably the reason why nintendo has been waiting so long to make a new one. A million sales for sony and microsoft might be a big deal but for nintendo, that's small potatoes.

Kinda like Mother/EarthBound. The series has an extremely loyal fanbase but the series isn't and wasn't ever a blockbuster in NA. That's why nintendo doesn't/didn't release them over here.

[CaptainPunch]

Lol then hurry up and make it, because we're all waiting.

[na-no-nai]

mmaybe the game is already in the works that why he said it

[MonopolyRSV]

Kid Icarus is too good for the Wii.