I said it was the last Prime game to launch never said it was a new game.

Compilations don't count as standalone games.

It's not a game in it's own right its just a rerelease of old games. So if nintendo say released trilogy hd last year, would you say that we have only gone one year since the last prime game?

EDIT: Nintendo did actually release trilogy for wii u last year in the eshop. So by your logic we have only gone one year without a prime game.

If they released it last year yes i would have been a year since the last Prime game but not the newest game that develops the story etc. 

So theoretically Nintendo could just keep re-releasing old games via Virtual Console and that would qualify as the sustaining the series in your view?

No because its basically the older games being rereleased while for the trilogy the first two games were never available on the wii before so they would have to revamp some things like controls and a few other stuff.

I'm one of those people that want a metroid fusion sequel rather than another metroid prime

can we just get some indie company to do it? shovel knight took over for the classic castlevania, freedom planet took sonic's place, and hopefully mighty #9 can get here soon enough to bring the megaman magic back

Even with the updated controls, Trilogy was still a re-release of three games that were already out. That hardly counts as far as signifying the series being sustained, any more than God of War 3 getting a PS4 rerelease represent that series continuing in the current gen.

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