I hope this and Retro make Nintendo acquire and make more and bigger studios in the West. I mean, that's where they get their biggest sales for home consoles, you'd think they would try to appeal/expand the market.

well they gave retro studios metroid franchise only because miyamoto saw one game they had in development and he liked it.

Well Luigi's Mansion 2 was pretty loved, so they must have made the right decision trusting them.

I thought Iwata was biased against western developers

Nintendo needs a strong 2nd party developer like in their old successful days (Rare with N64). Retro games and Next Level games seem perfect!

I honestly like all their games. Punch Out is awesome. LM2 is great, the strikers games were all great fun. I'm totally a fan of their stuff.

They split off from EA. Nintendo liked what the team did while they were at EA.

I honestly don't want Next Level, or Retro, or anyone else to make another Metroid game.

I'd like Nintendo to kindly get off their own asses and make one again, a GOOD 2D one, a proper follow up to Super Metroid (which Fusion, while decent, wasn't), that many of us have been waiting for for over 2 decades now.

And to anyone who wants to trot out the tired old argument "but 2D doesn't sell on consoles", not only has that already been defeated by previous recent successes (DKCR2 notwithstanding, which while a good game, few were SUPER hyped for when announced), but I could almost guarantee that if Nintendo unveiled an honest to god Super Metroid follow up, in THAT style, in HD, on Wii U, people would be super fuckin' hyped for it.

The coincidence with Retro is heavy Nintendo supervison. Level5 are exclusively devs to Nintendo by choice if I am not mistaken.

I really like their work.
They are doing a great job so far and I hope they will give them more big projects!