Shigesato Itoi explains why Mother 4 won't happen

This comes from a translated Game Watch Impress interview...

''Among big-time popstars, if they, you know, put out ten albums, around the fourth album, they can’t make very good songs. The albums sell, but everyone at the concerts wants to hear songs from those first three albums. Everyone.

I’m glad that video games are not my profession. If it was my job, I would’ve already made 4 and 5.''

Itoi added that when he made Mother 3 he thought he could do it, so Itoi did it. Mother 4 seemed ''totally impossible'' to him.