Here’s why Nintendo won’t make a new Advance Wars game

Intelligent Systems’ forgotten child Advance Wars hasn’t had a new game in almost a decade, the last game released all the way back in 2008.

So why aren’t the development team making a new one yet? Speaking to Eurogamer in an interview about Fire Emblem Echoes, Nintendo’s Hitoshi Yamagami who worked on the last three games has given a reason;

“Personally, I’d love to do Advance Wars, but since it’s harder to create relationships between its characters compared to Fire Emblem, I don’t have a clear idea of what kind of setting it could have.”

Normally I wouldn’t editorialise a news story and I don’t want to speak for all Advance Wars fans, but I’m quite OK with Fire Emblem having all the waifu relationship stuff – we just want to blow some stuff up.

In the same interview producer of Fire Emblem Echoes and contributor to the original Advance Wars game Masahiro Higuchi has given us some hope;

“The Advance Wars series is one that I personally have a lot of interest in. I hear some of the staff here saying that they want to make one too, so if we have a chance it’s something I’d like to do!”

What do you think? Let us know in the comments.