E309 | Nintendo, Team Ninja on Metroid: Other M

Nintendo's Yoshio Sakamoto and Yousuke Hayashi from Team Ninja recently answered questions on forthcoming Metroid game, Other M.

Speaking to Game|Life at E3, the pair discuss the Nintendo and Team Ninja collaboration, what styles and ideas the new team might introduce into this project, and hopes for another Metroid title from Retro Studios, as well as Sakamoto himself.

Around 100 people in total are teaming up to work on the new Metroid.

Also working with a studio called D-Rockets, who is producing the cinematics.

Trying to focus more on Samus's human side, bring out a story and aspects of her past.

Sakamoto wasn't involved in the Metroid Prime series, but he feels Retro has created the "ultimate first person adventure" game.

If Retro comes up with ideas for a sequel to the Prime trilogy, Sakamoto is all for it.

Goal isn't to make a "Team Ninja version" of Metroid - the pair hope it'll be a "game for everyone".

On shifting hardware from Xbox 360 to Wii (Team Ninja): "Given that my understanding of the Metroid universe is being this beautiful experience — my responsibility is to stay true to that."

Hints on a possible additional Metroid game in the works:

Wired.com: Have you been making games on Wario Ware: DIY?

Sakamoto: I created one that's been distributed.

Wired.com: Oh, right, I downloaded it! It's a Metroid game. So it's not true, then, you can in fact make two Metroid games at once.

Sakamoto: (laughs) I guess I have to be careful how I answer that question.

Thanks to C3 reader Robertd1138.