I have read the interview with Tanabe, and all I got was that he has ideas and plans but nothing is currently being worked on and nothing is planned to be worked on at least until the NX is released, and we don't even know what the NX is let alone in what year it will be released. Also, it takes at least three years to make a proper Metroid game according to Tanabe.

There's nothing being done currently for Metroid.



And you know what? I had absolutely no problem with Federation Force before reading that interview, because I was thinking that it was merely a nice (if ill-timed) appetizer before the announcement of a main game. The interview however clearly state that Nintendo has absolutely no plans for Metroid either in the near or far future.

The fact that the only thing Nintendo bothered to do for the series's 30° Anniversary is a low-budget multiplayer game with Samus as a cameo and graphics so ugly it makes the PS2 look next-gen speaks an awful lot about Nintendo willingness to invest in the series.



At this point I'm utterly pessimistic for the future of the franchise. The only hope now is that Tanabe was merely withholding informations and that Nintendo will use the Anniversary in 2016 to announce a proper Metroid game. If also this Anniversary is ignored, as I fear and think it will be, I think that the franchise may be safely considered dead and buried at this point.

Useless to say, all of this made me become much more sympathetic with those who signed that dumb petition.