Nintendo has said that future Mario and Zelda games will be open world. From that perspective, I think it's unlikely that we'll see individual releases of these games digitally and may not ever see again them for years. Certainly not until after the release of Mario Odyssey 2. What we may see are homage worlds in newer Mario games a la the 2d platforming sections in Odyssey. I could see a "Galaxy World" in a future game, for example. I think 3d all stars is likely the "last hurrah" for this style of 3d mario.
Similarly, after watching that most recent Direct, I don't expect remakes of the Twilight Princess or Wind Waker anytime soon. While it's crazy to imagine, I think a remake of the original Zelda, which after-all was very non-linear is more likely than another remaster of TP or WW.
It might seem to a lot of fans like remastering these games is easy, and releasing them is basically like printing money, but you have to remember that the average consumer attach rate is low compared to the people who post in comment sections, and Nintendo is probably not interested in competing with itself between old-style linear games and it's future in making primarily open-world games.
More speculatively, I also think that the reason Metroid Prime 4 is being remade completely from scratch could be because the original game was simply too linear for Nintendo's vision of itself.
This is an explanation, not a defense. This is undeniably annoying, and I wish Nintendo made it as easy to access their all of their old games as, say GOG or Steam.
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Nintendo has said that future Mario and Zelda games will be open world. From that perspective, I think it's unlikely that we'll see individual releases of these games digitally and may not ever see again them for years. Certainly not until after the release of Mario Odyssey 2. What we may see are homage worlds in newer Mario games a la the 2d platforming sections in Odyssey. I could see a "Galaxy World" in a future game, for example. I think 3d all stars is likely the "last hurrah" for this style of 3d mario.
Similarly, after watching that most recent Direct, I don't expect remakes of the Twilight Princess or Wind Waker anytime soon. While it's crazy to imagine, I think a remake of the original Zelda, which after-all was very non-linear is more likely than another remaster of TP or WW.
It might seem to a lot of fans like remastering these games is easy, and releasing them is basically like printing money, but you have to remember that the average consumer attach rate is low compared to the people who post in comment sections, and Nintendo is probably not interested in competing with itself between old-style linear games and it's future in making primarily open-world games.
More speculatively, I also think that the reason Metroid Prime 4 is being remade completely from scratch could be because the original game was simply too linear for Nintendo's vision of itself.
This is an explanation, not a defense. This is undeniably annoying, and I wish Nintendo made it as easy to access their all of their old games as, say GOG or Steam.