Longtime Metroid director Yoshio Sakamoto acknowledged that the long-rumored Metroid Dread is real and may some day be released.
During a Metroid interview yesterday with series director Yoshio Sakamoto and Team Ninja producer Yousuke Hayashi, we slipped in a question that was not about the newly announced Metroid: Other M.
Well, we thought it might be related.
For a few years, there have been rumors that Nintendo was working on a new side-scrolling Metroid game called Metroid Dread. There was even an easter egg reference to entities known as “Metroid Dreads” tucked into Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.
http://kotaku.com/297009/nintendo-is-a-metroid-dread-tease
So, we wondered, could the long-incubating Metroid: Other M, which we learned was conceived in 2006, be the Dread project?
“He’s very familiar with that [game,]” Sakamoto’s translator said after posing our question to him. “No, this is different.”
We pressed for details on what Dread is. Sakamoto’s response: “The day may come when Dread hits the stores, but this one is something that’s completely different. This is other M.”
