Nintendo: 2015 will be the year of Star Fox

It looks like Star Fox is coming back in a big way. Nintendo will be releasing a new Star Fox game for Wii U in 2015 with online play and some unique two screen mechanics, as well as 2 player co-op. Now Shigeru Miyamoto says 2015 will be the year of Star Fox, similar to how 2013 was the year of Luigi.

About why it took so long to make a new Star Fox, Miyamoto said:

We worked on some ideas around Star Fox back during the Wii days. But the problem was that we didn’t have any new ideas to bring to the game. I wasn’t particularly interested in just making another Star Fox game with better graphics and better sound. So we set that aside back then. This time, as we were doing our experiments, and we found this idea of doing the two-screen gameplay. I was particularly interested in a new style of play, where you’d have the cockpit view on one screen, and you’d have the third-person standard Star Fox view on the TV screen, and how those two screens could interact with one another.

The idea of having a helicopter-style game, and being to then to drop a robot down and tether it, and operate the robot that you dropped while you’re controlling the helicopter: [There are] a lot of new and different ideas that we simply couldn’t have had, if we didn’t have that Wii U Gamepad.

Shiggy would go on to add that he will be playing Super Smash Bros mostly as Fox McCloud and that 2015 will be the “year of Star Fox”. Hopefully he’s right and Nintendo celebrates Star Fox in a big way next year.

A big marketing push with an emphasis on multiplayer, both local and online, would be amazing for Star Fox fans and something we wouldn’t have thought we’d see years ago.

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