13th June 2017, 9:20 AM
Interesting, and that's a good question. Clearly, Nintendo has at least heard the concerns about whether the Metroid series died with M (Federation Force is a sub-par multiplayer game with a Metroid skin, so it counts about as much as Metroid Pinball does).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)