Probably next E3.

Rackin' frackin'!

I'll wait five years. So far, everything Retro has made is the kind of stuff you can come back to for years to come.
Sooner would be better, of course. ;)

I have faith in Retro and what they make. It will be good.

They probably are busily scrapping that Metroid/Star Fox crossover that nobody wanted.

Retro will do good for sure. Problem is it will be too late by that point. Wii U will be a dying platform. I see the GC era happening all over again.

i don't care if the game they are making isn't coming until 2013, but a trailer would have been sweet.

It makes you wonder just how many things they do work on that never see the light of day.  To some extent, I imagine that they do a bit of R&D work and experimentation, or pinch hit work for other projects.


The fact that nothing was shown from them was probably my biggest disappointment in E3.  I can't say that I really expect them to make another Metroid game anytime soon, though.

But doesn't it seem like kind of a long time for them to be working on something?  It's been 2 years, maybe more, since they finished work on DKCR.  Unless there have been some major hiccups along the way, I would have thought they would be ready to show something. 

And before someone says "What about those MK7 tracks?"....well, I doubt those took significant development resources.

I would agree.  I'm really curious about how their relationship with Nintendo works. 

I had rather hoped that their work on the MK7 Retro tracks meant that they were delving into 3DS development; I was disappointed to hear that they didn't reveal a surprise Retro game at the 3DS presentation.

Well there was a 3 year gap between Donkey Kong Country Returns and Metroid Prime 3 and they didn't show DKCR until E3 of 2010 which was just a few month before its release.  So it's not that long now compared to how their previous games development and unveiling went.

question is what is Armature studios doing?

They're making the Vita port of Metal Gear Solid HD Edition.

http://www.siliconera.com/2012/03/10/armature-studios-first-game-is-metal-gear-solid-hd-edition/

Once again the Nintendo curse strikes.  They left Nintendo because they wanted more freedom only to end up having less then before.  Just like everyone else that leaves Nintendo, they discover the grass is not greener on the other side.

I ear hustled caterkiller talking to a main Retro guy near the Nintendo booth, and not only can I say that there well be no Retro news anyone soon, but according to Caterkiller, it was heavily implied that it's not gonna be Metroid either. I didn't hear the whole conversation because it was loud but I heard enough.

I wish I could have heard that conversation.


It's not really a surprise, sadly.  Both Metroid Prime 3 or Other M underperformed, so it's difficult to envision a scenario where Nintendo would greenligh another Metroid game anytime soon.

Prime 3 sold over 1.3 million copies, it didn't under perform.  Now Other M did under perform but that doesn't change the fact Prime 3 was successful.  Hell even Other M managed something over 500k which would have been good if the games budget was much smaller.  Just because the games weren't putting up Mario or Pokemon level numbers, doesn't mean they do well.

This is why we're much more likely to get a new Metroid in the near future then some of you think.  Of course I wouldn't expect anything from Retro since they were sick of the series after the 3rd game and wanted to start doing something different.  But that doesn't change the fact we'll probably get a new Metroid from another studio sometime in the next 2 years.