PlatinumGames boss Atsushi Inaba revealed in an interview with VGC this week, regarding porting Star Fox Zero to Switch, “if the chance came up it’s definitely something we’d like to think about.”
“It’s not cool that people aren’t able to play older games because they’re locked out of the platform, so of course if anything was possible we’d like to bring over any of those older titles to the newer platforms. It kind of depends on what’s in the realm of actual possibility, but yeah, if the chance came up it’s definitely something we’d like to think about.”
Star Fox Zero had a unique control scheme on the Wii U that used two screens, involving players looking at both the television and GamePad, which was not well received. While a Switch port would allow Nintendo and Platinum to address the criticism and rework the game for a single screen, Inaba noted that it is up to Nintendo and Shigeru Miyamoto to decide on any potential changes.
“The important thing to remember there is that because it’s Nintendo’s IP, the ideas are coming from Miyamoto-san himself. We have to respect what Miyamoto-san wants to do. Of course, at that time there was a lot of discussion between Platinum and Nintendo, but if the opportunity came up to bring Star Fox Zero to the Switch again it would be more of a question of what he would like to do in that opportunity, and of course we would respect that again.”