May 10th, 2012

There won’t be a sequel to Kid Icarus: Uprising

106 Comments

According to Masahiro Sakurai, the man behind Kid Icarus: Uprising, he doesn’t have plans to make a sequel to the game, explaining that:

…because we pushed a lot into the game in order to let people have this short yet deep experience, but the novelty of that would likely grow thin in the next game. For now, my thought is that perhaps we’ll see someone else besides me make another Kid Icarus in another 25 years.

I wouldn’t be surprised if we see Pit make an appearance sooner than twenty-five years, but I also wouldn’t be surprised to see Sakurai stick with his word. Either way, I think we can be grateful that the game won’t get the Call of Duty-treatement. That in itself is not too much of a revelation though.

  • FLUDD

    WHAT? NOOOO!!!!!!

    • juan

      GUYS CHILL what happens if they add DLC for the game 0.o he didn’t say no about that so maybe we can buy dlc for our kid icarus to add more chapters to the GAME AND THAT IS CONSIDERED SEQUEL !!!!

    • RIVER

      Dude, I’d hate to break to you, but if added chapters via DLC are considered a sequel, then that means no DLC, he just stated there won’t be a sequel.

      Besides, I highly doubt there would be any DLC seeing as the game is big enough already, plus, it would most likely delay SSB for the WiiU and 3DS.

    • Wolof

      Juan has a point

    • RIVER

      not really.

    • Will

      Didn’t they already say DLC was coming for the game at the latest Nintendo Direct?

    • Green Reuben

      The same was awesome and that makes me happy that it wont get a sequel, mario has been milked and I don’t want to see that, keep kid icarus games few and far between and the series will never grow stale.

    • Omarsonic9

      Sakurai got tired making this game.
      and didnt even take at least a 5 months break or more..
      he started to create SSB4 the moment he finished the game!
      Hes a hard-working man
      so give him time

    • miiworld2

      @Will No it wasn’t DLC. It was additional contents from when you finish the game.

      Besides, I’m not too bummed out about the fact that there won’t be a sequel to this game, because I don’t want people whining about how the sequel gets repetitive or how the game has too much change and whine, whine, whine… it gets REALLY old and REALLY annoying.

      I’m with Sakurai on that one. I do hope to see Pit and company in the next Smash though.

  • Pedzz

    AWWW :( i was really looking forward to a sequel. That sucks. Whatever at least this game was great and i enjoyed it a lot, of course there will be other great ones :D

    • Belinni

      To be fair, the odds of a sequel are higher than they were 25 years ago. The only thing mentioned here is that Sakurai himself won’t be working on a sequel and if anyone remembers Smash Bros. Melee he said he wouldn’t do another Smash but then we got Brawl and then he said YET AGAIN he wouldn’t do another; but here we are waiting for TWO new Smash games.

      Either he will relent to Nintendo and it’s fans as usual or Nintendo itself will get another person to do a sequel based on Sakurai’s work.

  • Josh

    Well, Hades did say that there wouldn’t be a sequel for 25 years. I guess he was telling the truth.

    • FLUDD

      Thanks for the spoiler…

    • Krazz

      @ FLUDD It’s been out for like 2 months, spoilers are everywhere man. This isn’t much of a spoiler anyways.

    • brian

      That wasn’t even a spoiler dumbass.

    • Xarreno

      Hades isn’t revealed until later. Maybe that’s the spoiler he was talking about?

    • Xemnas

      What chapter does he say that in?

    • Josh

      @Xemnas Wait for about 5 minutes at the The End screen.
      There’s…interesting dialogue.

    • FLUDD

      Now I know that he will say this, spoiling the experience of hearing him say it fro the first time.

  • Jodel

    I have to wait another 25 years for another Kid Icarus? That’s until 2037!

    • brian

      Aww, look who knows their math!

  • Bigpete849

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Why, Sakurai, why?

  • someone

    sakurai hates money wait another 25 years!?!? WHY THAT SUCKS

    • Captain Falcon

      Sakurai is the creator of Smash Bros and Kirby. He’ll definitely make money during the next 25 years.

    • revolution5268

      you do realized that he is working on smash bros so he cant make a sequel for it.

    • AceOfBlades247

      He created Kirby? No wonder Meta Knight was Over Powered IMO.

    • Captain Falcon

      Yep. Meta Knight is definitely over powered… Brawl is kind of broken imo.

  • the psvita is better

    WHY!!!!!!!!!
    dude this is now one of my favorite nintendo franchises and you decide to make a game only once every 25 years?

    • revolution5268

      i think what he was saying is someone should make another kid Icarus without him… keep in mind he is now working on smash bros he cant do both at the same time.

    • Belinni

      I love how everyone is taking the 25 years joke as pure fact.

  • Xarreno

    I doubt it’ll last for 25 years, but that’s more likely than a possible sequel coming within five years. I’d have to place my bet on a 15 year wait at least, but I do hope it comes sooner.

  • ZimmerRemmiz

    Well I would imagine if the game sells well enough Nintendo will be green lighting a sequel sooner than that, but who knows…

  • Captain Falcon

    Perhaps Retro Studios?

    • kwfMathew154

      Whoa… O:

    • http://nintendo3ds.wikia.com J. Severe

      Maybe that game Retro’s working on is a KI:U sequel… No one would expect it!

      Nintendo just teased us with this game. That’ll be the real deal.

  • zeldafanboy23ify

    Guys this is nothing but a Propaganda scheme, he wants us to beg and then he will ask us to donate money, and finally he will ask us to buy some sort of item to see if maybe he’ll develop it.

    • http://www.something.com TechTris

      Look at you, jumping to conclusions.

    • AceOfBlades247

      This is not Crapcom

    • AceOfBlades247

      *Capcom

    • My name is NOT Earl

      *Crapcom :P

    • zeldafanboy23ify

      But this has happened many times. Heck, theyre doing this for Shenmue 3 now!

  • http://www.facebook.com/GetMeOffTheMoon Michael M

    I now worship this game. (I Really do.) Why can’t there be a sequal. =(

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/Spakiness Spakiness

    I don’t really mind much as long as Sakurai is working diligently on the new Super Smash Bros. game

    • Cecil 64

      and a new kirby game :)

    • Spakiness

      Agreed

  • the pig

    that is pretty gay, but what hes saying was the truth. if he would make a sequel there isnt very many NEW things thast he could put into the game to keep out interest. i am forever sad :(

  • Mignaga

    Guys just because he said he wont make a sequel doesn’t mean someone else wont. Nintendo is not going to let a profitable series lay dormant for 25 years. I would love to see a sequel on the Wii U, and I have a feeling Nintendo feels the same way.

  • will4zoo

    guys, calm down. as sakurai said “because we pushed a lot into the game in order to let people have this short yet deep experience, but the novelty of that would likely grow thin in the next game.” I would have to agree with him there. they expanded the series and put so many different story elements into the game that if they were to make a new kid icarus game, it wouldn’t feel the same. though it does make me sad. I really do like the game.

  • DarkBlueNinja

    what… this is soooo upsetting. this ruined the rest of my day…

  • bewoulf2000

    Rather wait 25 years for a game that doesn’t feel forced than one that would ruin this near flawless game.

  • Matt

    This is the same guy that said he probably wouldn’t do another game after Brawl but Nintendo made him and he’s doing it anyway.

    To be honest I’d like him to bring another classic Nintendo franchise back to life and see what he does with it.

    • Alex

      Perhaps Ice Climbers, or Mr Game and Watch? Nah, that would be weird.

  • Cyclone

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    whyyyyyy IT WAS A FANTASTIC GAME
    i don’t want to wait 25 years by the time i would be 39 0r 40 T.T

  • megajacobf

    this sucks

  • Jordan

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  • Csaw

    Even of he doesn’t develop it, if this game was profitable to nintendo, then they will put another team to work on it. I would rather have sakurai working on a smash bros or reviving another dead nintendo ip.

  • BR!4N

    That’s what they said about the Maka Wuhu patch.

    • Ness

      They said there wasn’t gonna be a sequel to the Maka Wuhu patch? Fuck, I would’ve paid good money for that shit.

    • BR!4N

      Me too, Maka Wuhu Patch was a great game, especially with the limited edition.

    • My name is NOT Earl

      There won’t be a sequel to maka wuhu patch? Dammit!

    • Perry

      The Maka Wuhu Patch changed my view on what video games should be.

    • RIVER

      Rofl.

      This is what I love about the internet.

    • BR!4N

      @RIVER
      What, it’s a perfectly good legitimate game, with nothing wrong with it. Don’t forget the original Bowser Castle Patch, that game could easily be better than Zelda AND Mario put together. (ROFLCOPTER)

  • My name is NOT Earl

    I don’t care if he takes 4-5 years to release the next game, as long as it the series doesn’t die again, and I sort of expected that it would take time, I mean they do need to think a lot in the story…

  • http://hybrilynx.net/ Hybrilynx

    i dont know what they are doing. they have experts to program games, and coming up with ideas is no work at all.

    • GameCollector44

      Then how about you get a job at Nintendo and do it yourself seeing as it’s so easy. o_o

    • http://hybrilynx.net/ Hybrilynx

      if i worked for nintendo, or anyone, i have to follow their rules. if one of my games had to be released holding back anything, like how donkey kong country returns didnt have any animal besides the rhino, i would rather cancel the whole game instead of selling something that is not at its best. becuz i value my work. besides, im only good with ideas, not programming.

    • GameCollector44

      All I know is that if Nintendo doesn’t have a sequel to their games every other year, people whine, but if they do have a sequel, people complain that they’re milking their franchises.

    • http://hybrilynx.net/ Hybrilynx

      i dont know about sequels, but all i ant is metroid. they could at least make another metroid prime pinball.

  • st4mpede

    Why is this News?!
    I dint wanna know that a great game title is not going to have sequel, I wanna know that its going to get a sequel if that was the case. grr

  • Cecil 64

    i cant wait another 25 years for another kid icarus game D:

  • North

    …just as soon as I though about the sequel last night, this morning I got the answer, man… this was getting interesting.
    by the way he just said that he has no plan for the sequel, this doesn’t mean there won’t be a sequel until the next 25 years, it just that he haven’t though of any sequel yet, there could sequel in the next 3 to 4 years if he get some inspiration just like Miyamoto-san did

  • Perry

    I guarantee that there will be another Kid Icarus in the next 6 years.

    • gordo97

      Place official seal of nintendo here:

    • BR!4N

      [citation needed]

  • gameamster0100

    This news make’s me sad :(

  • ZeldaCrazed

    A WiiU sequel with multiple playable characters: Pit, Magnus, Gaol, and Dark Pit.

  • Will

    Damn. It was a great game though.

  • http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/16a07c1e06c4010a42f31cc4d1a0702d.png ABEzilla116

    I mean this with the least disrespect to Sakurai but… This is just a stupid move.

    • RIVER

      How?

      If there will be another one, it would probably be develop by some other team.

      Besides, I’m not ready for another Kid Icarus sequel yet, the game has pretty much kept me busy since I first purchased it.

      If you’re looking from a business stand point, the obvious thing to do is make a direct sequel, but there won’t be for a while, thats fine, they don’t loads of cash right now.

  • scotty

    too bad, atleast he wont go the call of duty route, that would be baddddd

  • Ty

    I think they’ll probably make another Kid Icarus game soon, it just won’t be in the same vein as Uprising. They could make a platforming style game instead, or maybe something completely different.

  • http://www.facebook.com/GetMeOffTheMoon Michael M
  • Shadowwolf767

    People its a finished game that won’t get Dlc. and a part 2 won’t happen like that…. like he said in a lots of years there well be maybe a part 2. but right now nothing. hear me

    • My name is NOT Earl

      Well, skyrim will get dlc even if it has over 300 hours of gameplay…

  • Andy

    Me giving you my money is part of the natural cycle of life. Tell me Sakurai, why do you hate life?

    • Bob

      He hates life because you ate him!

  • http://www.gamesradar.com GameManiac

    Is it wrong that I’ve bought the game on Day 1 and HAVEN’T TOUCHED IT YET?

    (I’m gonna, when I beat other games that I want to finish first.)

  • PixelKnot93

    New game in 2037?

    Oh goody.

  • xrickx

    Good game but id say thats a good call not to make another for some time atleast

  • Oblivion comet

    I will be playing this game everyday until the sequel comes out, Come on 2037!

  • http://WiiUAndMii.com Joshawott

    I at least imagined that there wouldn’t be another Kid Icarus game for a few years due to Smash Bros., but I would have thought Nintendo would want to milk this revival for all it was worth.

    Having played the game, I’d say there definitely is room for story to be expanded – we still don’t know what the deal with Magnus is for example, or why the Aurum were doing what they did (aside from wanting to rip off the Gundam 00 movie).

    There are obviously a lot of stories still to be told in this universe. I guess all it’ll take is the Big N to tell Sakurai to do it though xD.

  • Tails the Foxhound

    We’ll see another KI on Wii U (later rather than sooner), mark my words. I’m not worried at all.

  • djnforce9

    I can’t say I feel let down. As nice as it was having a full 3D Kid Icarus game on the 3DS, the convoluted controls really ruined the experience for me.

    They REALLY needed to add a “twin stick” mode for the platforming sections (if you have a circle pad pro of course) while keeping the stylus for the “on rails shooter” parts. The way it is now, controlling Pit is a nightmare during those parts.

    • Andy

      Try playing it for OVER an hour. Trust me, you’ll get used to it. Besides, Sakurai already said they tried to implement dual analog into the game, but it was too slow to respond to enemy movements in time.

    • TheDarkHero

      Well he should have added the gyro like in face raiders or RE:R.Thats faster than the stylus and my fav way to controll shooting games.I just dont see how he could have missed that!

    • Craig

      You do know that as awkward as it can be… You can actually change the controls manually. Anyway, with the Circle Pad Pro, the right stick is the aiming reticle… So what’s the issue?

    • My name is NOT Earl

      You can also change the controls in the pause menu… That’s how I did in the very first chapter and since then I’ve been extremely happy with it.

  • Craig

    Well, the original game was made by someone different… Maybe he’s hoping that someone else will work on a Wii U game to make a different kind of Kid Icarus game. I think it would keep it fresh at least and I don’t think they’d ignore the success of the 3DS game.

  • Han Solo

    Glad to see they’re not milking it. I’d like to see a sequel on the WiiU or next handheld.

  • BR!4N

    Does anybody know how to make a countdown clock?
    12:00 AM January 1, 2037

  • http://gravatar.com/kayriss Kayriss

    It’s fine, long as he appears in SSB games from hear on out everytime I can wait another 25 years for each game lol.

  • Ice Climbers

    Maybe Monolith Soft would work on the sequel. Monolith, Retro, and a team that Miyamoto oversees would be the ones to trust with this.

  • Jorpor

    NO, NO! I want the Call of Duty treatment for this game D: … at least, in a more normal kind of way.
    It’s one of the only good franchises on the 3DS, damn it!

  • OmegaPit

    So, he does not want to make a sequal because it might end up a clone of the original (uprising) or something?

    That’s insane. There are plenty of things he can add and improve. Enough to make at least one sequl for Wii U.

    I an name a lot. But that would take time to type tem all out.

  • Recoil

    Nooo… I don’t want Kid Icarus to disappear again :/ They should release a downloadable game that combines the 2D elements of the original Kid Icarus with the gameplay of Uprising. It doesn’t have to happen right away, but maybe in 2 years or something. And they should aim for a proper sequel to Uprising within the next 5-8 years.