“So I of course told him, ‘No, you already know I’m not going to make a MOTHER 4 ’. This meeting was held on February 7th, 2011, at Nintendo’s headquarters in Kyoto. This influenced Yasuhiro Nagata, board member of Itoi’s company, Hobonichi, to reunite Itoi and Satoru Iwata for one last discussion about MOTHER 4. Itoi himself has even had fun with this extension of what MOTHER 4 could possibly be, even proclaiming that, “Animal Crossing is MOTHER 4 !” However, as much enjoyment as everyone was receiving from the freedom of entitlement of what MOTHER 4 was, many still wanted to hear more from the official source.
This quote inspired many fans to create their own interpretations of what MOTHER 4 could be, resulting in many wondrous ideas and fangames. In the same interview, Itoi did admit, “…if someone were to come up to me and say, ‘I’d like to make a MOTHER 4,’ I might just say, ‘Sure, go ahead!’ Yeah, if there was a MOTHER 4, I’d really love to play it”. While the story could’ve ended just like that, many over the years still persisted with the question of the series possibly continuing! Just a few months later in an article with Nintendo Dream, they exclaimed to Itoi, “Let’s make a MOTHER 4 !”, to which he humorously responded, “Making MOTHER 3 was already difficult enough for me! I’d like to be the player now”.Ĭould this really be the end for the MOTHER series after so many years of touching people’s lives? Not necessarily. When asked about a fourth game, he immediately responded, “There won’t be a fourth”, unfortunately closing the curtains on the MOTHER series as we knew it. On the night of MOTHER 3’s release on April 20th, 2006, a livestream was held where Itoi answered many questions about the game. After so many years, he just wants to relax and play games like everyone else! Shigesato Itoi trying out the Nintendo 3DS for the first time. What began as a thought of “let’s focus on MOTHER 3 first”, eventually became “MOTHER 3 is the final game in the series.” At the time, the team was so occupied with getting MOTHER 64 out the door that they had not even considered the possibility of a MOTHER 4! Over time, when faced the difficulty of developing the game, Itoi became more and more hesitant about creating a fourth entry in the series. While the game still wasn’t out and met with yet another delay, the journalists still threw out the question of a fourth game in the MOTHER series. This is a short excerpt from a March 2000 issue of 64 Dream, while MOTHER 64 was still in development.
However, the production difficulties associated with MOTHER 3 have demoralized us to the point where we don’t want to do a “ 4.” Besides, mentioning another sequel would get me in trouble. We were working on the concept of MOTHER 3 while MOTHER 2 was still in development. For the time being we have to get MOTHER 3 out.
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