Back in 2016, Platinum Games and Nintendo launched Star Fox Zero for the WiiU, and remains one of the few first-party Nintendo games on the console not to be ported over to the Switch.

In an interview with VideoGamesChronicle, Platinum Games studio head Atsushi Inaba said that they would “definitely” be interested in bringing Star Fox Zero to Switch if given the chance, especially since not many people will be able to play the game if it remains exclusive to the WiiU.

“It’s not cool that people aren’t able to play older games because they’re locked out of the platform, so of course if anything was possible we’d like to bring over any of those older titles to the newer platforms.”

That said, Inaba expressed that the final decision will ultimately be up to Nintendo and Shigeru Miyamoto, the latter of whom was heavily involved in Star Fox Zero‘s original development. This includes whether to port the game over in the first place as well as any potential updates and changes, such as altering the game’s controversial control scheme.

“It kind of depends on what’s in the realm of actual possibility, but yeah, if the chance came up it’s definitely something we’d like to think about.”

“The important thing to remember there is that because it’s Nintendo’s IP, the ideas are coming from Miyamoto-san himself, We have to respect what Miyamoto-san wants to do.”

“Of course, at that time there was a lot of discussion between Platinum and Nintendo, but if the opportunity came up to bring Star Fox Zero to the Switch again it would be more of a question of what he would like to do in that opportunity, and of course we would respect that again.”

“Mr. Hashimoto was working on Star Fox as director at the time, but he’s no longer with [PlatinumGames]. He was probably the one who had the most trouble taking the ideas to Mr. Miyamoto, because aside from how he is personally, he is a giant in the industry and somebody who a lot of creators look up to. So, it takes a lot of courage or anyone to go to him with ideas or feedback.”

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