Earthbound, eller Mother, var en ret berømt serie, der godt nok primært havde flest fans i det japanske, men som alligevel har et loyalt globalt følge også. Faktisk ankom der et tredje kapitel i Mother-serien på GameBoy Advance for over 15 år siden, men det spil kom aldrig til vesten.
Så vil det det en dag? Hvis du spørger tidligere Nintendo-chef Reggie Fils-Aimé, så skal man ikke holde vejret. I et interview med Kinda Funny fortæller Fils-Aimé at det faktisk ikke er så mange der reelt set plager:
"Don't hold your breath. Again, I'm not there [anymore], I don't know what's going on. While [former Nintendo CEO] Mr Iwata was alive, he really understood the passion that fans had for the Mother series. And you need to remember that it was under his watch that Earthbound Beginnings was first brought on to the Virtual Console platform. And so, the company knows that there's a lot of passion for that franchise, but thinking about how to make it current, thinking about how to make it bigger than just the, you know, let me call it the relatively small group of fans that desperately want to see Mother 3 or something next in the Earthbound series. That's what the company I'm sure has been thinking about and they just haven't figured out yet the solution to that, or at least they haven't been prepared to talk about it."
Det lyder ikke helt som om at Nintendo har lyst til at bringe serien tilbage. Ønsker du det?