Aielyn said:
No it isn't. It's speculated as not happening because Tanabe said that, if he started working on it now, it'd be on the NX because it would take about 3 years to make. Like what so many Americans do when reading their Second Amendment, the context has been stripped away in most reporting - they report him as saying "So it would likely now be on Nintendo's NX console". But the sentence before it was "If we started for Wii U now, it would likely take three years or so." What he didn't say was that it hadn't been started, yet. And this was from Eurogamer, and even they recognised that it wasn't a confirmation of anything, because later in the article they say "This all points to Wii U not seeing a new Metroid Prime (or just Metroid), which is a shame..." - "points to" is another way of saying "implies". And implication is not the same as confirmation. It's not a "confirmation" unless they say "Metroid Prime 4 is not being released on Wii U" or some variant thereof. And when he words another answer as "I'm not thinking about anything like that [partnering with another studio] right now. We have nothing to announce on working with any specific team." - the part that should stand out is "nothing to announce". If Tanabe was confirming MP4 wasn't in development for Wii U, he'd have said something like "We aren't yet at the stage of considering a studio to partner with", not "we have nothing to announce". |
Didn't he like say that he couldn't collect a team to do the game though?
