This topic certainly took a turn I wasn't expecting. Most everyone here has valid points, but I am asking, how would you SELL this? You could go on all you want about how you've "fixed" things from the original, but fans react badly to change. You would very much want to avoid a fallout similar to what happend with DmC or the new Ghostbusters. So, how would you advertise it and address the changes?
But why would they market it around the pairings anyway? It wasn't ever supposed to be a romance. The marketing for a reboot would be based around whatever nostalgic kitten got tons of people to watch the series to begin with. And that isn't Sakura. It's not. That was the whole problem to begin with. If they planned to have Naruto be with Sakura in a reboot, it would not be in their best interest AT ALL to advertise that fact. Even if Sakura hadn't been such a clusterkitten popularity and development wise it wouldn't be. Why would they not only market the romance in a shonen, but spoil it as well?
We can assume NS would happen at the end, so it would be over anyway, making this a moot point. Unless they also reboot Boruto.
NS happening on its own isn't enough to justify it, they need something else, like better animation or something. And make certain story arcs less terrible. If NS was that kittening popular, they never would've screwed things up to begin with. They would have done what they were supposed to.
And again, why would they spoil what pairings they would end with? They would leave it open to not alienate either faction. Though if they did this, NH fans would be idiots to expect the same thing to happen. So it comes down to damage control after the fact, which is not gonna make much of a difference to their bottom line. Nobody wants to hear it. I talked to a guy on FFN who fully believed what Kishimoto said about planning NH and SS from the start. I explained to him why that was BS, but it didn't matter if he believed me or not, because hearing that Kishi planned it from the start just made him hate Kishi even more.
Edited by DrK, 21 March 2018 - 09:13 AM.