Metroid co-creator Yoshio Sakamoto is up to his eyeballs in overseeing Team Ninja"s development of Metroid Other M for the Wii, but that"s not to say he wouldn"t like to see a followup to Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. Speaking to Wired"s Game Life, the game designer expressed his hopes that Prime developer Retro Studios would continue to work on the first-person Metroid series that they started on the GameCube back in 2002.

"With regards to the Prime series, if the team at Retro comes up with an idea that does bring a sequel to the series to fruition, I by all means encourage them to do that," Sakamoto told Game Life, continuing, "But I"m not directly involved with the Prime games. In terms of the Metroid series stories that I"ve told, the games that I"ve been involved in, I started with the NES Metroid and took it through Fusion."

The Nintendo designer went on to explain that he"s currently focused on bridging the gap between the events of Super Metroid and Metroid Fusion, and that any further continuation of the Metroid story would have to wait until he finishes with Other M. "One of my goals is to present Samus as an appealing human character, and that involves explaining a little bit about what happened in her past as well as the characters that influenced her," Sakamoto said of Other M. "The story will play a big part."