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Wonktonodi on 30 June 2015
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padib said:
Wonktonodi said:

Fils-Aime: “Look, we know that the fans want a straight Samus Aran game. We also know that the best way to launch a game like that is to surprise and delight them, to give them a launch date, in an environment like this let them play it vs. what other companies do which is to announce a project that you may not see for five, six years. It’s just not the way we do things. We know the community wants to see a straight-up Metroid game. We know it.”

His quote is a judgment statement on what other companies do, since they are saying that their way is best.

It's also such an exageration, other companies implies far more than the select few that have titles that were anounced a long tim ago, and 5, 6 years has pretty much been just a few square-enix titles that they tease people with way too soon with not even plans of the games being out that soon. TLG was supposed to be out 2 years later. Had he just said 3,4 years he would have been right about a few more devs but even then most games are faster from anouncement to release than that.  had he said 2,3 years more acurate still, but even then while it would need to be checked I still think most games come out faster. Though several big titles from this years e3 will probably fall in here.

I think it goes without saying that the way a company does this is the best way to them. Otherwise they would be doing like the others. I don't think that's something you can consider a judgement call except to the most extreme of interpretations.

@bold. And I think that's part of why it was mentioned. It's true that most games by the competition come out 2-3 years from reveal, but this e3 contained a fair amount of megatons which were either a long time in the making or are in very early stages of development (Shenmue III, FFVII remake).

That's why I think his comment is fair, and explains why Metroid proper was not at e3 this year.

Then again, he may be lying about it and Metroid really hasn't even begun development, but that is a whole different question.

if it goes without saying, what does it mean when it is said? Without saying "best for us", It was a judgement staitment of we're not anouncing a metriod game now becuase it's not best to tell you now, like other companies do with their games.

even ShenueIII and FFVII remake will probably be out in less than the 5,6 years he said. Had he said a much shorter timeframe he'd have gotten less flack.

If we werer to put the 5,6 years just in the context of Metriod does that mean the next one is that far away? because I think there are very few games that ever have that long of a developement cycle planned, that's a console generation right there.