What was once a household name is quickly becoming a forgotten franchise. The last we heard of Star Fox was back in 2006 when he made an appearance in Star Fox Command for the Nintendo DS. Why haven’t we seen a new title? You’d think Nintendo would want to release a heavy hitting title like this giving the Wii another selling point.

Well, Bayonetta‘s developer Hideki Kamiya wants to take the work off of Nintendo and develop the game himself, with the help of Platinum Games, of course.

What do you guys think? Would the same studio that made Bayonetta be able to do Star Fox justice? Let us know in the comments.

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The original creator of the Star Fox series and founder of Q-Games, Dylan Cuthbert, said in an interview with G4 that he is not interested in making a Star Fox game for the Wii. Cuthbert was responsible for both the original Star Fox and Star Fox Command.

In response to why there isn’t a Star Fox for the Wii, he said “The problem with that is that it’d be a big project, like 100 people on the staff. It’s just not something we really want to do. I’m sure someone will make it. Maybe they’ll go back to Namco.”

An actual flying Star Fox game is what has been missing from a Nintendo console for far too long. When asked about why Fox has stepped out of the Arwing, Cuthbert attributed it all to Shigeru Miyamoto. “I think that’s all Miyamoto.  Whenever I speak to Miyamoto about Star Fox, he says it’s not meant to be just a flying, sci-fi shooting game. It’s meant to be anything we want to think up. But the core fans don’t want that, but Miyamoto doesn’t really care about that. He wants to make what he wants to make, so he just goes ahead and gets it done.”

In case you have tears in your eyes, don’t cry just yet; the creator hasn’t ruled the Wii out completely. He did say that he could consider developing a title taking advantage of the Motion Plus.

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