Nintendo tease new Metroid chapter

A new chapter in the Metroid saga coming soon?

Nintendo’s official Japanese site for the Metroid franchise has an interesting little banner on its front page, which seems to suggest that the Metroid series is set to get a new side story, possibly based on the Space Pirates.

Spotted by an eagle-eyed NeoGAF forumite, the banner mentions ‘Another Side Story - coming soon’. Naturally, there’s much fevered speculation as to what it could be, but with strong rumours that Retro Studios isn’t currently working on a Metroid game, it’s unlikely to be a new 3D Metroid. A 2D outing on WiiWare, then? Perhaps, but I’d suggest it might be some kind of anime series, or maybe a manga comic. Or possibly even just a bit of background info on Samus’ enemies on the site, to tie-in with the Wii-releases of the first two Metroid Prime games in the Wii de Asobu/New Play Control range.

Still, there was that mention of Metroid Dread in Corruption…could it be that Wii’s Year of Hardcore brings us a new space adventure for everyone’s favourite bounty hunter?





This entry was posted on Friday, February 6th, 2009 at 6:18 pm by Chris Schilling
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2 Responses to “Nintendo tease new Metroid chapter”

  1. WJUK Says:
    February 6th, 2009 at 11:18 pm

    Could it be Metroid Dread?

    Somehow I’m highly sceptical that it will be. But I really hope for a 2D Metroid game (if possible on the DS), I’d love to see it return to it’s roots.

  2. austin d Says:
    March 31st, 2009 at 9:10 pm

    i dont think its gonna happen. metroid is constantly teasing us but with no reward. it may happen but for the sake of my hopes, i wont believe it until i see it.

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