i used to be on the "warioware is deeeeeeaaaaaad" train, but nodaway I'm not so sure. Infact, I'm downright optimistic. Here's why:
1: In the Iwata Asks for G&W, Goro Abe says they gave it a different name because they didn't want people to confuse it for a regular WW game. So evidently they don't consider it representative of the series.
2: G&W is a Wii u game, and pretty much ever franchises beside Mario saw massive drops, so I think the suits are not-stupid enough to consider that before axing franchises. While G&W did notably more poorly than other first party games, it was released early in the system's life, before quote-unquote system-selling games like Mairo 3D World and MK8 came out. And it did outsell Wind Waker HD in Japan according to one sales tracker, which may count for something????
3: The current merchandising push. even if it's largely on the back of ashley. You don't see dead francises like f-zero or mother promoted like that.
I'd say the bigger obstace is that there's no obvious input method to take the franchise to (while patents hint the NX will have funky scrolling wheels instead of regulartriggers, that's not really something you can build a full game around). Yoshio Sakamoto is the guy who greenlight(ed?) the games, and as the interviews I collected
here shows, he had strong ideas about how SPD1 games need to be totally different from each other and that they can't just make "Wario Ware II" with different microgames. But now that he's seemingly out of the picture, then perhaps...
