It appears as if this year’s remakes of Star Fox and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time won’t be the last remakes Nintendo ever tackles. While it would be silly to think Nintendo would never retouch another classic, in an interview with Polygon about Ocarina’s recent release, Nintendo SVP of product development and publishing Nate Bihldorff confirmed that new games and remakes hold equal importance to the company in regard to production.
“I do think that new games and remakes both have a place in the Nintendo stable, of equal importance to be honest,” Bihldorff told the outlet. “There are fans of every single IP that we have out there. Of course, having new games in those series is wonderful, and I look forward to them as much as anyone else does, but there’s also a deep satisfaction in revisiting games that were very, very special, like Ocarina of Time.” He obviously brings up how many players have never experienced these games before, which is a number that grows every year as the original becomes more distant.
Maybe this new approach is because Nintendo has multiple franchises which are 40 years old now, but it does seem to be paying off for the company. Star Fox has moved over one million units and Ocarina of Time got off to a solid start. If Nintendo can manage to balance new releases alongside classic reduxes, then the Nintendo Switch 2 generation will likely be as successful as the first Switch.
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Written by Peter Glagowski
Peter has been a freelance gaming and film critic for over seven years. His passion for Nintendo is only matched by the size of his collection.
