Jon-Erich on 08 July 2015
I would like to point out that the OOT remake, the Majora's Mask remake, and Hyrule Warriors were all outsourced, so those games took very little of Nintendo's time. Most of the would-be developers of Metroid games at Nintendo have been busy with non-Zelda projects. This Metroid spinoff is being made by Next Level games, a company who only recently became a second party developer.
That being said, I really don't see a link between the Zelda spinoffs and this new Metroid spinoff. I'm sure the project exists because Next Level wanted to do something with the Metroid franchise but Nintendo didn't want to hand them the main franchise until they could prove their worth with a spinoff.
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