Nintendo Developer Hints at Metroid Wii U

[Soleron]

haxxiy said:

Soleron said:
If it's Metroid Other M 2, given the sales, Nintendo would finally have gone insane (defined as, no longer interested in making money).

A 2D Metroid would take them a third of the time to make with fewer people and likely sell more.

Can't see why. Prime was the best selling game in the series by far.

(I mean, the first one likely sold a lot too, but it has been, well, 25 years since it)

Let's assume another Prime game would sell about 2m. A 2D Metroid would sell about 1m judging from Fusion. But the 2D one would cost much less to make so I think they could make more profit from it overall and also need to commit fewer resources that they could use on other games.