Kensuke Tanabe, the producer of the Metroid Prime series, spoke with IGN about his desire to make a new Metroid Prime. He says that at the end of Prime 3 there is a mystery gunship chasing after Samus that resembles the ship of Sylux from Metroid Prime Hunters. He confirms that the ship indeed belongs to Sylux and says there is an untold story between Samus and Sylux that he wants to tell in a sequel to Metroid Prime 3.
I said this at the beginning, but I'm not involved in the 2D Metroid games that [Yoshio] Sakamoto works on. I still feel like there's a little more work left for me to do in the Metroid Prime series. I can't say when, but I want to make another one.
He's [Sylux] actually chasing after Samus, and that's where that game ends. There's still more I want to build around the story of Sylux and Samus. There's something going on between them. I want to make a game that touches upon [it].
I'm also thinking that, in that eventual game between Sylux and Samus that might get made, that I want to involve the [Galactic] Federation as well. So it would be a good idea to release a game like Federation Forces to flesh out its role in the galaxy before moving on to that.
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