Resident_Hazard on 15 June 2011
I think a hiatus is best for the series for now. Nintendo spams certain franchises while others languish or are forgotten--like StarFox (no NEW game since the DS), F-Zero, and many other long-forgotten classics like StarTropics and the Ice Climbers. Their constant use of Mario in everything damn near killed variety on the Wii and DS, and they have yet to deliver Last Story or Xenoblade outside Japan.
I would like to see the franchise continue--but not for a while, and only if they ERASE Metroid: Other M from the series' continuity since the "Samus" in that game is clearly not the strong heroine we all knew and loved from every other game with "Metroid" in the title.
