Future Of Project Giant Robot Is Still Up In The Air, Says Miyamoto

They could moved it to the NX

Maybe part of a Nintendo Land sequel, can't really think of what IP they should use for that one.
EDIT: Wasn't there another game he did as well? I forget.

i imagine a similar treatment to project guard turned into an added-value star fox game. probot gets bundled with zeldau/zeldanx with that mech thing we see link fighting in the only footage ever. i think that's a good trend to start at nintendo. out there ideas get attached to bigger names. going by the wario vid posted previously, that's how he got his start. looking outwards, that's how portal got started as well with the orange box.

That's a shame, it looked like a fun silly game to play with friends.

I don't like Star Fox Guard (and to an extent, Metroid Prime: Blast Ball) because they're being marketed too heavily. You don't need a big World Championships reveal for your minigame! Star Fox Guard should've just been a minigame in Star Fox Zero included in all copies, not a $15 spinoff. It looks fine, but over-marketed.

@Megumi Are you talking about Star Fox (Project) Guard? I'm pretty sure this, Guard, and Star Fox Zero were the games he showed at E3 2014.

It's Miyamoto so if he can find a way to use it he will.

If Codename: S.T.E.A.M. was more popular, then they probably could've turned Project Giant Robot into a STEAM spin-off that's more focused on the Giant Battles of the game.

Wasn't this first shown off as part of the hype for the Wii U? Nintendo's almost guilty of false advertising, or something along those lines. From dropped games to abandoned gimmicks, Nintendo now has a history of not really delivering what they had advertised.

He should have lied, said "oh, we took the fighting robots and made them Kirby-er and you've got Kirby Robobot" and no one would ever have to know the truth...

I'm not going to lie, I never knew this titles was supposed to be a full retail game. I guess I missed the announcement that it was supposed to make it retail and just took it for a tech-demo. Now that I know, I am sorry to see that people who were interested in it be neglected. That's never a good thing.

They turned Guard into an eShop Starfox game, why not turn this into an eShop Custom Robo game? I'm sure there's a lot of fans who miss that series...

They can always turn it into an eShop download title like Dillon's Rolling Western or Pushmo and charge $15 for it.

@Iggly They still could. Since STEAM didn't really catch on, people might not be super hung up on how far away from it's roots the new game would be. Maybe it could even spawn a continuing series.

The game could be a Xenoblade spin off.

@ap0001 I certainly would have just looked at this as a headline, shrugged, and scrolled on without a second thought. Wouldn't even be thinking 'Huh, whatever happened to that Kirby Robobot game Miyamoto mentioned a few years ago?' The game even at E3 looked like a mess and I could care less if it gets released or not.

When those tech demos were revealed, I cared more about Project Robo than Guard. It reminded me of Rockem Sockem Robots, with the exception that you get to build your own. Honestly it looked rather unwieldy, but that seemed to be part of the charm of giant robots.

While Star Fox Zero is largely focused on the experience of controlling the Arwing, Miyamoto's statement here could be perceived as ambigious. Perhaps either of the two upcoming Star Fox games could have incorporated (unseen-as-of-yet) segments or elements from Project Giant Robot, even if there's no full game in development which uses these concepts.

Of all his projects this was the one I thought was sure to be a full title but evidently we get guard first.

Remember the rumour about controller sticks with "push-back"? They would be perfect for something like this.
[dream bubble where my NX controller has me in a choke hold]
I TAKE IT BACK!

They could make a new IP out of this. Or make a Star Fox spin-off and give Falco a GIANT ROBOT. How awesome would that be?

Given the new Godzilla game appears to have stumbled, I'd love to see some kind of Daikaiju/Giant Mecha game that's decent.

Good riddance I say. It looked like garbage and I especially don't want to see it if it's handled like Star Fox Guard.

Kind of reminds me of King of Monsters on the Neogeo.

@dizzy_boy Only King of Monsters was a million times better. Even Pong would be better. Now you've reminded me of.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glPhunEfPd4

Great game btw.

In the left corner we've Project Guard and in the right corner we've Project Robot.

If they dropped motion-controls (or made them less important for the game), included more parts/weapons for the robots and made the cities more interactive, this could turn out to be a great fighting game.

Robot?

ROBOT!?

ROOOOOBBOOOOOTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope it comes out eventually. It looked really fun from what I've seen.

I don't where this would fit. Mario & Luigi RPG boss fight? Though without a console entry, that's impossible and it seems to be a bit too much to relegate to a fight.

It would have a form a mode of another game or would need to be a low price budget eshop effort, I think.

Don't get me wrong, I've always loved the idea of this but mass appeal (especially with motion controls), might be difficult.

I was actually lucky enough to get to try this out at an event, and by golly was it fun. It was simple, but very challenging, and it certainly felt like you were controlling this big hulking machine (trying to even stay upright was hard enough).

I think they've probably missed the market with this now, unless there's some sort of clever way they can rebrand it into something more relevant.

I can't help but think that this sort of game would have made a great bundled game for the Wii U at launch, a bit like what Nintendo did with Face Raiders on the 3DS.

@edcomics Yes it was. It was mentioned in Nintendo Power when the Wii U was first being mentioned. They did this with other games for their systems too. Eternal Darkness was to be a launch game for the Gamecube (after they moved it away from the N64) and it ended up coming out almost 2-years later. There were other games that were mentioned for Wii in Nintendo Power too...also shown on the original box art for the Wii system. I'm forgetting what those games were, but they never saw the light of day either. It kind of makes you wonder what other games they started too and never finished. Kind of also makes you wonder how many of those games could have made it. Sony does this too, I know, as some games were mentioned for PS3 and never came out. I agree too, they shouldn't even mention the games or show screenshots of them, if they're just going to cancel them.

@TruenoGT If you look back at some of the old Nintendo Power issues from when the Wii was beginning to be shown off, this game was part of it, or at least the name was mentioned. It shows how long the game has been reviewed but never seen the light of day. Now, nintendo will bleed it into their next console. Seems that they can't figure out a story or something else for it, but I see it being played into another IP or even into the next Smash Bros.

Who needs project robot when we have Kirby in skells?

Why this isn't an amiibo I'll never know. Do we really need Waddle Dee?

Just remake that episode of the Pokemon anime with the sumo wrestling and make it so it's like Godzilla.

FROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM THE EAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAST FERAAAAAAAAAAALIGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATRRRRR!
FROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM THE WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEST BLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAASTOOOOOOOOOOISE!

They could just either use it for a new IP, or Hell, bring back an old one. Custom Robo, I'm looking at you.
If this maybe goes to an old IP, I think it should be Star Fox. Make it in the way of Star Fox Guard, how the robots protect the city (Most likely Corneria) and Andross's robots are invading. Give the game to Falco, because who doesn't want to see him drive a mech? I really wish they did that. Maybe they will. But I really want Project Robot to be a game.

Neither Project Guard nor Giant Robot were originally conceived as full games, as they were created as tech demos, which is something I'd been noting since the E3 reveal. But people still argued that these were "totally real games coming out in 2015." This provides further evidence that these things were never intended to be actual games.

Needs a major overhaul or just a free mini game with every NX.

Starfox Build.

Starring R.O.B 64 and his uncle, B.O.B. 32.

They could resurrect that "Doshin the Giant" game with it, that'd be fun.

Basically, they have now officially tried and failed to come up with anything at all to 'show off' the game pad. Even Nintendo doesn't know what it might be good for. Next time they should maybe do that particular research before they launch a product.