BitSnark

After the bad news of the Metroid Prime Trilogy discontinuation the other day, Metroid fans are perhaps in need of cheering up. Well, here is just the thing; Nintendo today have confirmed that the Team Ninja developed Metroid title, Metroid-M, will arrive on the Wii before the year is out.

Nintendo told G4TV: “The next highly anticipated offering in the Metroid franchise is Metroid: Other M, which will be available this year,”

Being one of the standouts of what was otherwise a somewhat lacklustre E3 presentation for Nintendo, i’m very interested to see how this collaboration with the Ninja Gaiden developer will turn out.

This is especially true in the light of the fact that it shuns the Prime series’ 3D trappings, instead opting to return to the good ol’ 2D gameplay of yesteryear.