In an interview with Game Informer, Shigeru Miyamoto was asked about the potential revival of franchises, such as Kid Icarus and Mother (a.k.a. Earthbound), on home consoles. Here’s what he had to say:

Well, my development teams aren’t working on either of those franchises right now. Of course Nintendo has a lot of development teams that it works with. On those development teams are a lot of people that are Nintendo fans and on those teams there are a lot of people who are constantly telling us, “Oh we want to make a new Kid Icarus.” So you never know when something like that might happen.

As for Mother, that’s a slightly more complicated matter that I can’t really answer because it’s really up to Mr. Itoi is to whether or not he’s interested in continuing that franchise. But I can say that Mr. Itoi and I are still on very good terms and we enjoy working together.

You can head on over to read more of the interview, which talks about Wii Fit, passing on the development torch to younger developers at Nintendo, franchise revivals in general, and expanding the market. I’m interested though, would you The Tanooki readers prefer a new Kid Icarus game or a new Earthbound game if you had to pick one for the Wii?

Game Informer