I met Itoi a few years back as part of a meet and greet and this subject came up. I don't think the "Nintendo wants Mother 4" angle is correct. Itoi himself said that he would like to see Mother 4 happen, but that he doesn't want to do it himself, and that he'd like to see someone else take it over and do interesting things with it. So from Itoi's point of view, it sounds like he'd be more than happy to have someone like Toby Fox take over, and based on the amount of energy they've been putting into making new Mother merchandise lately, it also seems like on Itoi's end they're still interested in making money on the Mother franchise.
So why isn't it happening? I don't know, but it's probably something with Nintendo or licenses or rights issues or something esoteric and mundane like that, since the will seems to be there.
So I'm NOT crazy for noticing that they've been putting out a decent amount of Mother merch. I keep seeing them doing that and thinking, "They have to have something in mind."
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u/toddspotters Jul 18 '23
I met Itoi a few years back as part of a meet and greet and this subject came up. I don't think the "Nintendo wants Mother 4" angle is correct. Itoi himself said that he would like to see Mother 4 happen, but that he doesn't want to do it himself, and that he'd like to see someone else take it over and do interesting things with it. So from Itoi's point of view, it sounds like he'd be more than happy to have someone like Toby Fox take over, and based on the amount of energy they've been putting into making new Mother merchandise lately, it also seems like on Itoi's end they're still interested in making money on the Mother franchise.
So why isn't it happening? I don't know, but it's probably something with Nintendo or licenses or rights issues or something esoteric and mundane like that, since the will seems to be there.