What Zelda and Metroid for the 3DS should be

[nintendo_fanboy]

I really would like the idea of games like A Link to the Past and Super Metroid on the 3DS. As Rol said, those kinds of games never stopped selling, but they were just stopped being made because the N64 put so much focus on 3D environments that all Nintendo franchises moved to 3D, and because Nintendo was so great at recreating these games in 3D. But I also think that you have to give credit to Nintendo for bringing 2D back: If it weren't for NSMB, we wouldn't have any 2D games now, not from other publishers either. I also don't really get your issue with 3D Mario, because it is very clear that we will get a new 2D Mario sooner or later. I mean, it is not the same team that creates the Galaxy games (EAD Tokyo) and the Bros games (EAD 4 or any other number), so I'm pretty sure the Bros team is already working on a new game, probably for the Wii U.
Also, it is not only Mario that Nintendo re-established in 2D but also Donkey Kong, and they were already testing the waters a little bit with Other M, so your critique about Nintendo doesn't seem really fair to me.

Now for the two games we are actually talking about: I think a new side-scrolling Metroid is definitely a possibility, because other forms of the franchise didn't really succeed to sell well. Top-Down Zelda is a bit more unlikely I'm afraid, but I think the 3D Zeldas are not as different from the 2D games as it is the case in the Mario and Metroid franchise, so no 2D Zelda is more acceptable than no 2D Mario or Metroid to me.