Gender locked race?

[Iscah]

Has anyone mentioned that they said it's difficult to make a new playable race and that's why Viera might be the last one? Why would they then go out of their way to make two races only to have each race be gender locked? I think there will be a male Viera just because of that reason alone. They're probably saving its reveal for Japan due to its historic nature.

The gender lock is exactly why they could do two races in the first place. It's not so much "one race" or "two races" as adding a new male character and a new female character, which may or may not be designed as the same race.

From a practical standpoint, creating a male-locked race and a female-locked race would be the same amount of work as a single race with both genders represented. The same number of characters need to be designed, modeled and animated.


I've said before, after Viera-and-male-counterpart (male Viera or otherwise) I think we will get one more race eventually, for a total of eight pairs of characters, but not for a long time yet - because there may be a hard limit on how many they can program in, and it really would be the last. So they don't want to get people's hopes up for more future races.