Metroid fans have it easy, try being a Suikoden or Legend of Dragoon fan 😂 😂

Whatever.

The one who said that there is no Metroid Prime on development (Tanabe) was the Metroid Prie producer. Who is not the same producer for the main numbered series (2D ones and Other M). Metroid V (a sequel to Fusion for example) for example could be on development and Tanabe would not know shit about the project. Not that I believe we'll get any other game besides Federation Force, I'm just clarifying that Metroid Prime ≠ Metroid as a whole and that we have a chance to get a new Metroid before the OP said.

If it can top the original TF, I would be ridiculously excited about this xD

I love Metroid, but I feel like people keep forgetting that it is a NICHE franchise. There's a reason Nintendo doesn't care that much about it.

I'd rather they not make another DK or Metroid personally.

I'd like to see them try their hand at either an all-new IP, or a franchise that's been long dormant.

It unfortunaly happens, to a franchise be left for a while.I mean, look at Golden Sun.Its been what, 6 years since a new game has been announced?

Let Retro do a new IP, whatever they want. They deserve it, and it would be a new addition to the Nintendo's family.

I really wouldn't expect that they would said in interview they working on new Metroid Prime game, espacily saying something like we started to work on Metroid Prime for Wii U but we moved project to NX. So I relly think they started working on Metroid Prime for Wii U but they moved project to NX, so we could actually have new Metroid Prime game in 2017 or 2018. In any case I expecting some news at E3 about Metroid Prime, even that means only concept art.

I wouldn't mind a 2d version, probably wouldn't take as long to develop.

I think people are too hard on nintendo... Developing games takes much longer than it used to, is much more expensive, and people expect them to churn out a mario game or two, a mario kart, a super smash, probably a Splatoon now and a zelda title each console while also wanting new installments from other franchises like Pikmin, Kirby, Metroid, Yoshi, Star Fox, Mario Party, f-zero, donkey kong etc, while also calling for new IP's to be introduced. Meanwhile, they're also trying to churn out enough games for their handheld simultaneously... This may have been possible in the 16 bit era but it's asking a darn lot today.

Really, I think more than anything that might be what's pushing them to consider linking the two platforms, as there's simply no way they can please everyone with how long games take to develop when they're also splitting their library in two.

This is why I'm in favor of them porting a number of the Wii U games, such as the recent smash bros and mario maker, to the NX. Both games are superb, they'd be hard to top (Sakurai might work himself to death trying to get another one ready), and would free up resources to work on other games while helping their early Nx library. Really, as a wii u owner I'm not at all offended by the idea of them porting some of their games, a few of which went criminally under appreciated. The truth is I've gotten more than enough out of this console and, while I imagine the ps4 will eventually pass it, my library is pretty darn robust at this point.

Otherwise, they might also want to consider doing more collaborations like they did with the dynasty warriors boys for Hyrule Warriors. Might help ease the load a bit.