Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime says the game will be worth the wait.
Speaking to Newsweek's N'Gai Croal, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has confirmed that Metroid Prime 3: Corruption will not be released for Wii before July 2007.
"Where is Metroid? Metroid is not going to ship by June. We've announced all of our games through the end of June," said Fils-Aime. "And the fact with Metroid is we want to make sure that that game is perfect. Unfortunately, Metroid Prime 2 didn't live up to our expectations, it didn't live up to Retro's expectations [from a sales standpoint]."
Fils-Aime is, however, in no doubt that the game will be well worth the wait.
"We want the sell-through as well as the critical acclaim for Metroid Prime 3: Corruption to be the best in the series, and that's a lofty bar. To do that is taking a little bit more time than we had anticipated. But it's coming. And it will be great," he concluded.
In Europe this leaves only Mario Strikers: Charged Football, Wing Island and Pangya! Golf with Style as confirmed releases in the first half of 2007. Super Paper Mario is scheduled for release over in the US next week, but currently has no confirmed release date for Europe.
bencrosaby wrote at 09:30 on 04 April 2007
Why does he keep torturing us Europeans? NA will be lucky to get it before Christmas.
Vallentin wrote at 12:58 on 04 April 2007
I'm sure Metroid is complete. Nintendo likely just wants to push fall/winter console sales with it.
bencrosaby wrote at 13:08 on 04 April 2007
It has to be, how long has it been in development? A while I'd imagine.