Why has Nintendo given up on Metroid?

[TheSpindler]

AZWification said:

TheSpindler said:
People keep telling Nintendo to stop milking franchises, but yet they want them to milk them more.

How about giving Metroid a break and have Retro or whoever else work on something new? Metroid wont disappear and they can always come back to franchise.

Since when is Metroid a milked franchise?!

That's the point.  It's not quite there yet, but it seems people want it to be.  Last Metroid came out about 4 years ago, and before that they had finished up the PRime Trilogy, with a number of handheld games.

You don't need to release a new game every year or even every 3 or 4 years.  Sometimes you need to give it a break, and come back to it later.