game series nintendo is too scared to bring back 

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I want to point out that Dogz/Catz/Petz series predates Nintendogs by 10 years as it was first released in 1995.

Ever since of Miitopia’s crazy amount of Customization on the miis I’m surprised we never got a Tomodatchi life with the switch’s Miitopia Mii maker

WE NEED TOMODACHI LIFE NOW NOW NOW NOW I NEED IT KEEP THE MUSIC (especially the supermarket) KEEP THE VOICES I JUST NEED IT ON THE SWITCH

I like the idea for a Tomodachi Life 2, when I played the Tomodachi game on the 3ds I felt some things about the game were lacking. If this game was supposed to mimic real life, a school should have been provided for your islanders' children. If 1 had been included, the school lessons would be somewhat similar to attending a quiz show.

Regarding the Mother franchise: The reason why there aren't more games being made is because doing so would go against the creator's wishes. Mother is owned by both Nintendo and Hobonichi, the company of series creator Itoi. Itoi has stated that he is satisfied where the series is currently, and does not see a reason on expanding it further. I definitely think Mother 3 needs a western release, but I don't think it would be right to continue making more games for a story that the creator said is finished. Anything beyond would be more akin to fanfiction. Also, one reason why Mother 3 hasn't been localized (among others): When the fan translation team launched their translation, Nintendo sent them a letter that basically said "yeah you did this better than we ever could lol".

I've had my Tomodachi Life island since my 16th birthday (in 2019), and I do still play the game at times. It's the craziest game I've ever played.

Seeing Kid Icarus in the thumbnail reminds me of when I played Kid Icarus Uprising on the 3DS. Man, gotta go find my cartridge and boot it up after all these years.

“Scared” is the wrong word for these games. The Problem is that none of these games sold well covering their costs and had device exclusive mechanics. It’s not Scared, it’s Financial Literacy. Earthbound, Kid Icarus and FZERO were flops almost anywhere so rebooting this franchises was ill advised in Nintendo’s Part. Wonder why Pikmin 4 took so long? Because it was a risky investment by Nintendo to continue the series as the games weren’t getting enough traction. You really only know these games now by Smash Bros.

I don’t think Nintendogs would do well on switch like you said, those virtual pet games were ran into the ground. But I could see them making bank off of a mobile app targeted at kids maybe.

As a gay man it's hard to buy a game like Tomogachi Life knowing you won't have the option to marry the same gender. I get why Nintendo is so hesitant to even mention anything LGBTQ+ related because of what happened to Disney, but The Sims has been doing it for many years and the community loves the extra options that they can marry whoever they like.

Well ok, it’s less Nintendo’s too scared to bring back Mother, and more that Itoi feels he’s done telling the story he wanted to tell, which we should respect……… BUT YA WANNA KNOW A FRANCHISE NINTENDON’T *IS* AFRAID TO BRING BACK? POKEPARK. THAT GAME SERIES KICKED ASS-

I pretty much grew up playing The Legendary Starfy on my DS. The OST for that game is amazing. It's such a fun, great game! If they did make a new game, or at least a remake or something, I would be buying it immediately.

Would love to see Starfy come back.

I would pledge my loyalty to them forever if they bring out Pokémon ranger again. I'd even give them my first born if they make another remake of Pokémon Heartgold and soul silver 😩

Little Friends: Dogs and Cats is probably the closest to a Nintendogs you can get on the switch. There’s also Little Friends: Puppy Island, which doesn’t have cats, but has a small story mode. It scratches that Nintendogs itch. I’d still like to see what Nintendo would do themselves tho.

It's worth noting that quite a few of these IPs aren't actually owned by Nintendo directly, just licenced for their systems by third parties. And even the ones that are, they have full control over to request a new entry. Not to mention some of these games had entries a few years ago, even if they were remakes or ports... Mystery Dungeon, Mother, and Pokemon Ranger are all franchises that were developed by a third party that own the rights to some aspect of those games directly. While Nintendo and Creatures Inc both co-own The Pokemon Company alongside Game Freak, for example, Hal Lab is entirely independent of either and is co-owner of the Mother franchise alongside Creatures Inc (specifically 2 and 3 which they co-developed) and also owns the design of the catching mechanic used in the Ranger games. Mystery Dungeon is a non-Pokemon series owned by Chunsoft which licenses Pokemon for one of its spin-off series, it would be on them to approach Nintendo about making new games not vice versa.

I feel the reason we haven't seen a new stadium game, is because the main selling point of those games were the fact you can battle your Pokémon in a 3D stadium. Now that all the games are 3d there is little incentive to do so. Unless they go the opposite route with pixel art, but that probably won't happen.

They aren’t scared they’re perfectionists the timing has to be perfect and stars and planets have to align Also starfox isn’t dead we had starfox content in the switch era

Friendly Reminder to buy Another Code Recollection to support smaller Nintendo franchises

I was waiting the whole time for spectrobes or fossil fighters and was shocked they weren't included. A pokepark 3 or a new ranger game would also be really cool

Thanks for mentioning Golden Sun. I love the series. Every Nintendo console since the DS I've been paying attention to Camelot's releases of Mario Golf and Tennis games hoping the next game would be Golden Sun. If Golden Sun came out on the 3DS or WiiU I would have bought one for that game alone

37:44 Interestingly enough, Magical Starsign isn't a one-and-done kinda game. It's actually a sequel to the Japan-exclusive GBA game Magical Vacation, created by Mana series devs after leaving Squaresoft in 2000! So if Nintendo were to bring the series back, maybe we could also see a proper Magical Vacation localization :D!

I can understand wanting Mother 3, but the devs have stated multiple times that they consider Mother a completed franchise. They did everything they wanted to across those 3 games. If you want a similar experience a lot of indie and fan games have you covered. Id also say try Dragon Quest, the series is actually pretty close structurally due to Mother taking influence directly from it.

No Fossil Fighters Here! C mon our franchise went extinct in 2015 but man all of Fans want to see it return so bad on the Switch.

1:54 nahh purr pals was a vibe!!! I loved driving my cat around in a truck and my mom loved the little music mini game.. we loved it so much the too this day we still meow along to the little songs that where in there 😂 purr pals made my child hood

I’m one of the few DS owners (and I grew up with it playing DS games so much) to have never played Nintendogs even to this day.

As a massive Kid Icarus fan, I hope to one day watch a Direct live like I always do, hoping for Kid Icarus content, and actually getting it. I'll actually start crying if I hear the main theme of KI in a Direct this year

Hope we get a new Nintendo Direct soon.

My series that I want back that will likely never come back is style savvy. It was published by nintendo and synsophia, but nintendo owns the IP. Synsophia is still doing fashion games exclusive to nintendo platforms, just without their official partnership with nintendo- if nintendo wanted to do it, they could. But, for a lot of reasons, they likely never will. I can accept that, but I'm still going to be sad about it.

I don't consider Mother as something to bring back. The series is just finished. I can see remakes and ports but it doesn't need a new game entry.

Technically tomodachi life is the second game in the series: the first one was for DS but it was Japanese exclusive because the DS couldn’t handle the English voices of the miis for some reason so the English release had to be scrapped. But I still want a third game.

Man I’ve been wanted Starfy 6 for so long! And for them to translate the first 4 games as well….

Some corrections: The original Sin and Punishment came out on the Wii Virtual Console in the west before the Switch version. Endless Ocean wasn't a "one and done" as it had a sequel 'Endless Ocean 2: Adventures of the Deep'. Also, I can't believe you didn't include Chibi Robo, it's been 9 years since we last saw that series 😢

The problem with bringing back Diddy Kong Racing is that, besides Diddy Kong, Krunch, & Tricky (As well and Tiny & Dixie if we’re counting the DS version) every character in that game is owned by Microsoft

"Donkey Kong was repurposed to a side-scrolling adventure" To be fair, Donkey Kong Country existed way before DK64 was even an idea.

Finally!, someone mentions Magical Starsign! :D Now there's a dormant Nintendo IP I would love to see get a new entry.

I really want a brand new Pokémon mystery dungeon game…we haven’t had an original one since Gen 6….

Bandai Namco is working on a 3D action game remake. and they have a new studio for Nintendo games. and Masahiro Sakurai says that he wants to make a remake or a remaster of Kid Icarus Uprising one day

I did read that Nintendo is remaking Super Punch Out, but someone told me that they are not, because Punch Out for Wii did a bad sale, due to Donkey Kong being too difficult, so they are not doing another Punch Out game. I can see that as the problem, because they might have to bring in another character from a different game. I do see a chance for King Dedede or Bowser as the secret opponent if Super Punch Out gets a remake, and probably one new fighter to each circuit, like Kid Quick, Pizza Pasta, Mr. Dream, and a brand new opponent (like Bear Hugger and Aran Ryan from Super Punch Out and a brand new opponent named Disco Kid came in Punch Out for Wii). I read Nintendo's contract with Mike Tyson expired, and that's why Nintendo remade Punch Out on NES by replacing Mike Tyson with Mr. Dream. I read Mike Tyson was not in the Wii version, because he retired from boxing. I read Mr. Dream was not in, because he was hated by alot of fans for replacing Mike Tyson. I do not see a chance of Mike Tyson joining Super Punch Out. What if Mr. Dream came in as new? You do not have to believe everything I posted, because my info can be wrong, because I been getting info from other people, but about the boxers being in Super Punch Out remake, it's just my guess, and even someone suggested those boxers to return. From what I been seeing and been told, I do not think Nintendo will bring Punch Out back.

Funny thing is that my OC’s name is Gorden son and I didn’t know they was a game called golden sun

Keep up the videos, I’ve been watching every single one of them, and being a blast!

I think it’s because most children that played the game at the time couldn’t have a dog irl, so now that it’s core audience has grown up already, we all have pets now.

What’s the remix of running in the 90s used in this video?

I once had a dream where there was a Tomodachi Life sequel named Tomodachi Life: Versus World. I remember each Mii living between several high-rise apartments, as well as food trucks and an area that looked like the classic stair and flagpole from Super Mario Bros. This was all I saw. As someone who has played Tomodachi several times and bought the Miitopia port, I would buy a Tomodachi Life sequel.

I thought they brought back Nintendogs but with another name. Edit: ok it may not be the same people but it's called little friends. I saw it while browsing games in Walmart.

A little correction. Sin and Punishment finally came to the west on the Wii's Virtual Console before the switch came out, so it saw a western localization WAY before switch online

I was really hoping punch out would have been mentioned. I adore punch-out and we haven't gotten a new one in over a decade

I actually have a ridiculous sense of PTSD when it comes to "Nintendogs" because of the donation feature and the fact you could starve your pets. i would not emotionally survive tomogotchi 💀

No, bc it's the way I've been begging, fooling myself that Nintendo will make a starfy game again

One series I’d love to see revived is The Last Story. I loved the story, the characters, and game mechanics - and, it was essentially a spiritual successor, to a degree, of final fantasy. I still keep holding onto hope that we’ll get an HD remake or true sequel to it.

18:43 thought I was watching Boundary Break for a second

I love that you’re making these kinds of videos again! I love all your content, and I love it when you talk about more than animal crossing! Even though I love animal crossing haha ❤

I feel like starfy is so underrated the story is very cute and the ending is down right bonkers i wish theyd translate the older games cuz i really want to play them and see if they are just as good

To be honest, aside from wishing for another F-Zero game (and another WipEout game, but that's a rant for Sony...), I'm still waiting on a few game series to come back. •Warioland •Custom Robo •Steel Diver •Lylat Wars (it's been decades!) •Pullblox/Fullblox •X (no, not that one. The one by Argonaut) •Dillon's Rolling Western •Ever Oasis (although that's more because I like the fan art people drew of Miura...) I'm dying out here missing these franchises!

13:18 the thing about this is that the Mother/Earthbound series is owned by Shigesato Itoi and Nintendo, and Nintendo respects it as Itoi’s baby pretty much. Itoi has no interest in making a 4th game considering how long and arduous the journey was to finally release Mother 3. He still loves his series ofc.

No mention of the Mario and Luigi games? I know alphadream is dead but for a Mario spin-off that has such a cult following that with some of the best games of certain consoles being games in that series it's criminal they don't at least try to get another team to work on another one.

ive had my 3DS since 2016, and i still play Tomodachi life on it. need a second one with updated features and mechanics for sure :'0

I see this and I'm reminded of this statement from Telltale from before they shut down saying something to the effect of "These series are an important part of our company's past, but not its future." Call me negative, but I think at this point, Nintendo might see these off-series as being good only for nostalgic releases (like for NSO) and nothing else. I see the same thing with other publishers with lots of highly requested nostalgic properties, like Capcom, Sega, Square-Enix, Konami, Sony, and more, and think a big new release for any of those series is just never going to happen, no matter how much we'd want it. They'd understandably rather spend their money and effort on a sequel to a flagship franchise that they know will sell decently than a revival of an old or obscure series that might bomb. I'd love to be proven wrong here (and it looks like Sega's trying to), but I just don't see it. Well, I'm sufficiently bummed out now. I'm gonna watch some hip-hop dance videos to cheer myself up.

Mystery Dungeon games have always had a special place in my heart and I hope to see a new one at some point. But I also feel like that may not happen. But that's probably one of my biggest wishes. A new Mystery Dungeon game.

22:06 I have been playing through animal crossing new horizons again C.J. refers to flick as his partner. Sure the word partner doesnt always mean being involved with someone romantically but the way it's used has some romantic implications.

you know whats hilarious, ive just watched this and a new endless ocean game was announced/possibly released? like a few weeks ago

I know it’s by 5th Cell… but it was on Nintendo systems, The Scribblenauts series!! This was one of my favorites and I’d love to see another game. Super Scribblenauts was one of my favorites for my DS Lite and I played Super Scribblenauts on steam on my computer and I’d have fun with more.

this video is basically a “whatever happened to that character from smash bros” and i live for it!

They need to do this!! So many great ips being slept on is sad!!! It would really help there exclusive lineup if they continued a lot of these series

I saw Starfy on the thumbnail so what I will say for that is that TOSE would have to want to make more Starfy games as well since The Legendary Starfy series is owned by both TOSE and Nintendo.

Some of these I think could see a resurgence and I think just suffered from fatigue of not being desirable enough to sustain having many titles released in quick succession. I think Nintendogs could have a very successful new title either on Switch or even Mobile phone, or perhaps both with a walk-your-dog segment with the Nintendo mobile app that links to the switch game. Just like back then, plenty of people aren't able to get cats and dogs today, or just want to enjoy some of the experience without actually owning one in the long term. For many others though, I feel like a lot of people expect every game franchise that has a character in smash to just be upkept alongside the top selling franchises. A good handful have had their directors move on to new projects for over a decade and wouldn't know where to begin adding on to an old franchise, or Nintendo has adjacent IPs that are much more successful. For example Mario Kart is also a racing game that sells ridiculously well, so having Nintendo develop another in-house racing game seems like a waste of money when if they put the same amount of effort into a Mario Kart main game / spinoff it'd without a doubt sell many times more copies. The best bet for these cases is probably just outsourcing the titles since many other companies don't have as high expectations of sales/profits as Nintendo does for their in-house studios, but a lot of the other companies that have worked on Nintendo projects have gone under or just haven't seen great success. Metroid Prime 4 restarted development, Hudson Soft went bankrupt (Mario Party), AlphaDream went bankrupt (Mario & Luigi). Perhaps the cut Nintendo takes or the licensing costs are just too high to justify these more niche titles to be developed even by 3rd party studios...

Thanks for these well-made videos!

I need endless ocean back and go vacation 2! I really appreciate this video. Brought back old memories.

One game that isn't mentioned here but that I fell in love with on my Switch: "Part Time UFO". That game was so darn charming, had one heck of a charming OST and the gameplay was so much fun! Would buy a sequel in a heartbeat.

Yes, I'm sure it's not calculated market data analysis but fear.

Had to check out this video from one Elyjah to another 😤

Having a new Pokemon Battke revolution would be so fun. I feel like if Nintendo and the Pokemon company were to release it that it would solve the battle facility feature that’s been absent in resent mainline games. Having facilities with different objectives and gimmicks. I think the best route for that game to be successful is to have connectivity with Pokemon Home. Being able to take Pokemon there and train them up in that game as well to use them.

Is 24:30 music from ZeroRanger?

I just want a Rottie in my Nintendogs 😭 plus I got the Frenchie version of + Cats and was so sad that the agility was replaced with that weird pully thing? When I was little that was the only sport I was good at and eventually I got the hang of the frisbee sport but never could get past the second comp for Obedience. My childhood bestie was incredible at it tho! She made it look to easy and was basically the opposite of me where she eventually got the frisbee one but could never really do that well with the Agility comps 😅

There's a rental system in Pokemon SV. They're actually made by people, so they're competitive builds, too

Whoa, hold thy horses! just for the record, Petz existed Looooong before Nintendogs. Nintendogs was my relief for the online community around Petz dwindling. The console versions of Petz were weak at best and new for post NintenDogs.. but Dogz and Catz existed from the mid 90s on the PC with a sizable community of people that hexed the breed files to create breeds the game wasn't developing fast enough, started breeding kennels, dog shows, agility trials, etc. It was a bit over the top really but the peak was probably around 1999 when Dogz 4 and Catz 4 were released. The version 5 left fans a little disappointed and the fandom tapered. But it was very different from Nintendogs and definitely caught and/or started the fad of virtual pets even before the little keychain ones came into play. I didn't mean for this to sound quite so aggressive but I guess I still remember those times and what I got out of it (I learned HTML because of those silly life form simulations) that I felt a way about hearing the franchise talked about as a failed follow-up to a decent console game of similar taste.

I want a pokemon stadium type game that includes higher res models of all pokemon that teaches you fundamentals of battling and minigames,, different tier cups, past battling option like triple battles or rotation battles. And it would justify pokemon home. An N64 filter would be cool too but but would probably wouldn't be probable but that's just me having dreams 😅

Early NES titles like Ice climbers, excitebike, balloon fight and so on would make good mobile games. Those games were designed to last a few minutes, which would adapt well to quick bursts of content on the phone during free time.

Here are some other Nintendo IPs you forgot to mention that they should bring back Disaster Day Of Crisis, it was the first game made by Monolith Soft after they were acquired by Nintendo and it’s basically Uncharted mix with Metal Gear Soild in the style of a Roland Emmeric disaster movie, it looked like a lot of fun but unfortunately never saw a western release because not only did it sold poorly in Japan and Europe but even Reggie hated the game and prevented it from getting a US release. The Last Story, a JRPG made by Hironobu Sakaguchi (the creator of Final Fantasy) after he left Square Enix, while it did get a North American release thanks to Project Rainfall it was just completely forgotten. Pandora Tower, another JRPG that Project Rainfall helped get a North American release and much like The Last Story it was completely forgotten which is a shame because I did played it and it’s very underrated Code Name S.T.E.A.M, a strategy game made by Intelligent Systems that’s basically a steampunk version of the Avengers featuring characters from American literature and folklore, it even had guest characters from Fire Emblem if you scanned their amiibo.

I want a Kid Icarus Uprising Remake on the Switch so bad. Just rework the controls, polish up the environments. I'd play it.

I’m still upset they never translated Kirby super star stacker when they put it on NSO…

Hal labs has definitely made more that 30 Kirby games sense mother 3s release

Every year I pray for f-zero, and kid Icarus comebacks. They’re really interesting games and would def sell u can see by the second hand prices of their older games that they are desirable

I have nostalgia for renting Warioland shake it on the Wii from my local video store 😂. Back when you and your parents would go to blockbuster or family video to get movies, or games. I tried so hard to beat it before I had to return it, I did not. But the same goes for Paper Mario

Terranigma. Mother effing Terranigma. There was so much love and story in it, give us a remake! A sequel! Aaaaaah

it'd be nice to have golden sun come back but that isnt happening anytime soon cuz camelot got sent to the mario sports mines

30:03 Your wrong waluigi did have his own game. Just A very forgotten game. He was the main villian in mario ddr on gamecube

I have a strong gut feeling that some of these games series will come back

Idk personally I am pretty ok with just letting franchises die, this frees up development time for completely new franchises and ideas. They have such a large roster of franchises, they simply cant keep em all running AND make new franchises, that would overload the switch with games and would reduce average. Sales per game thus reducing revenue

we need kid icarus reboot PLEAS!!!! I loved kid icarus uprising growing up

The thing with Nintendogs not mentioned in the video that may play a role in Nintendo's hesitation is the game's heavy usage of, and big reliance upon, the DS and 3DS touch screen. While that's not something that can't be overcome, as some other games shown us, in this case the touchscreen was such a big part of the gameplay, that removing it may actually feel like a totally different game. And that may be a problem Nintendo may not be willing to touch (pun fully intended). It is also a reason why I think we will never see another Pokémon Ranger game. It's another game series that was made specifically for the touchscreen and as much as I loved those games and would love to see them coming back, the question is, would it still be the same game I loved if they reworked the controls for Switch? Somehow, I don't think so. And regarding Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, one thing that's worth mentioning is that majority of those games were made by Chunsoft before the merger with Spike into today's Spike Chusoft in 2012. Only three games in this series were released after the merger and one of them probably being worked upon long before the merger. I don't want to speculate why that is, but it does seem suspicious to me that only two Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games were developed by Spike Chunsoft after the merger. But it's sad to see a series that actually saved Chunsoft from bankruptcy (which was confirmed by Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team developer) being overlooked by them now.

Sin & Punishment was actually released during the WiiU era as virtual Console

10:25 Is that Geist? I loved Geist as a kid.

the dogz and catz games were around for like 20 years before the ds even existed fyi

I wish we'd see a remake of, or even a sequel to, Pokemon Conquest. It was special, fun and different. I'd also love to see a new version of Pokemon Trading card game. I loved both of these on their original handhelds and even bought the digital version of the card game on the 3DS. The same way of playing, but with the addition of all the cards that have come out in the meantime for the latter game. More PKMN Mystery Dungeons would be awesome, I've always loved those games. I wanted the Star Tropics game for my NES back in the day, but I never got hold of it. Would be great to see it on the Switch and finally have a go at it. Would like to see a return of F-Zero, enjoyed it so much back in the day

Endless ocean series from the Wii was absolute masterpiece

Pokemon isn't making another battling game, they have a normal battle system in game where you can rent teams and battle against people or NPCs. The team renting thing in Sword and Shield onward is the same as the older games. Even in the older games they had the battle frontier and battle towers, but since we now have mainline games on the switch and not the ds, there isn't a need to showcase graphics on a big screen when they're already on the big screen.

Sun and punishment came out on the Wii store and then a part 2 on Wii.

I miss golden sun...