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Quote:IGN reported today that the short Metroid Prime 3 teaser footage shown at Nintendo's Tuesday press conference was actually only a small part of the footage that was on-hand and available to be shown. The game, announced for Nintendo's next-generation console, is apparently well under development at Retro Studios, the developer of the first two Metroid Prime games. When asked why Nintendo would hold back on additional media for what is one of the company's most popular franchises set to appear on its currently most talked-about (and whispered about) project, Nintendo's Perrin Kaplan had this to say:

"Several of us felt pretty strongly that we didn't want people to misperceive that Metroid Prime 3 was our big [Revolution] launch title because that's not what it was intended to mean," Kaplan said. "And we really want to feel like we want to make sure we have a compilation with a lot of stuff that we're really happy with before we show it. It's like showing one finger of a hand doesn't make sense."

Disappointing news to be sure, as many fans had anticipated (and in some cases hoped for) a deluge of Revolution information as well as footage. Although it does not look like this E3 will provide that intimate look, the promise has been made and it would seem that Nintendo has indeed ensured that all eyes will be on them when they finally decide to pull back the covers completely from their new flagship project. For now, fans will need to rest easy with the knowledge that game development is deeply underway at each of Nintendo's talented internal teams.

They should have showed it anyway...and some more games too. Oh well.

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Told you guys that they pulled stuff.

They really need to have Spaceworld this year.

I knew they had the footage ready to go! So it sounds like the whole reason they didnt show was because Miyamoto didn't want to show his projects because it's "So God damned Revolutionary"!

Oh Mr. Miyamoto... you fucked us.... it better be so awesomely great that I weep. Make me weep Miyamoto! Make a 26 year old man-child weep before your awesome goodness!

I don't think it was because it would give away any "revolutionary" details, just that Nintendo loves to cocktease.

Nintendo is always secretive like that, but at least we can always count on them to deliver quality games.

That super short MP3 clip they showed was very underwhelming though. It looked like a GC game, and probably was running off the Prime 2 engine. It was stupid of them to show just that.