Grant Kirkhope, oorspronkelijke componist voor Banjo-Kazooie, sprak met VideoGamesChronicle over de mogelijkheid van een nieuwe ingang van de franchise.
Helaas kan hij niet veel zeggen. Kirkhope zegt dat, simpel gezegd, “ik weet niet of ze ooit een nieuwe Banjo zullen zijn”. Kirkhope zegt ook dat “ik gewoon een componist ben. Ik heb geen enkel verband met die beslissing ”.
Het goede nieuws is dat de reactie op Banjo-Kazooie in Smash Ultimate luid en duidelijk werd gehoord door Nintendo.
Grant over een nieuwe Banjo
My honest opinion is I don’t know if they’ll ever be a new Banjo. It’s easy to go, ‘look at these numbers’, but it might be a drop in the ocean for Xbox. Is there a market for it? I just don’t know. I would think that Rare probably doesn’t have the appetite for it. They’re super busy with Sea of Thieves and that’s a gigantic game: it’s going to take the whole studio to keep making content for that.
Maybe the E3 reception has made Microsoft think about it, but the trouble is, if I say anything more definitive than that then the fans will think I’m in the know! When really, I’m just a composer. I have no connection to that decision what-so-ever. Gregg Mayles and Tim Stamper are the real inventors of Banjo…
I’m just the most visible on social media.
They (Nintendo) were surprised by how crazy it went. The E3 reveal seemed to be gigantic. When I was speaking to Nintendo back at their booth at E3, they were all saying it was a bigger reaction than they’re normally used to for Smash. So Nintendo did recognize that it was a big deal.
They were surprised. And we all were: it was such a huge release for all those fans who’ve been waiting so long for a new game. Rare need to find somebody like that who gets the game, who really loves it, gets the humour, comes up with a great plot and then kicks on.
They would need to find an external studio who really cares about the project and wants to do it, like they did with Killer Instinct and also similar to how Ubisoft Milan did a great job with Mario + Rabbids.
Welnu, we kunnen dromen, toch, nadat Banjo Smash heeft bereikt en zo’n luide preactieop heeft gekregen, misschien wordt zijn waarde nu gezien door Microsoft … of misschien zijn ze zelfs bereid om hem naar de Nintendo-kant te laten gaan. (ja ja wishful thinking weet ik).
