>>714581594
I must say it would be really funny and sad if all it took to get a new Banjo game greenlit was Gregg Mayles leaving Rare.

>>714528080
>>714528332
That's funny because I always felt like Gregg Mayles kinda suffered the same thing Miyamoto has in that they're really hellbent on returning to their old shit via wacky innovation. Like when you think about it, the reason we haven't gotten a new Banjo since Nuts & Bolts is kinda the same reason we don't get Star Fox or F-Zero games very often.

Like compare pic related and then this interview with Takaya Imamura: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2XNaWM4tGw&t=561s

>F-Zero and Star Fox, both series are close to Shigeru Miyamoto's heart, and I get the feeling that um, I'm pretty sure that if a new iteration of one of those games got greenlit, he would really want to be apart of the development. But he's a really busy person, so I don't think...you know, I think, um, realizing that's gonna be difficult.

>From my personal perspective, um, I also think Nintendo as a whole, Miyamoto's approach to game design, is that they don't want to rehash the same old thing, so they always need something unique in every new iteration. Perhaps one of the reasons to why there hasn't been a sequel for so long while I was at Nintendo was I wasn't able to find something that was exciting or new enough for Miyamoto to give it the greenlight, so he would be involved. As an example of how important the franchises are to Miyamoto-san and how he values new ideas, um, Star Fox Zero for example, started off life as "hey, let's do a shooter game using booth screens". This was the idea that came from Miyamoto-san, and if we can use that, then okay, we can put that into a new Star Fox, and that's where Zero comes from. If you want anymore proof, then that was the first game Miyamoto worked on as a director for about probably 20 years.

>>714489781
The sad thing, Gregg is also probably the entire reason a new Banjo-Kazooie hadn't been made after N&B.