The producer of Metroid: Other M has said there are no plans for a Metroid Prime reboot using his new Samus.
Samus Aran has been given a new look for Metroid: Other M but Sakamoto admitted that he didn't know what this means for the future of Metroid Prime or whether Retro Studios (the developers of the Prime series) would consider using his Samus.
"I didn't have a lot of input on the Prime series. I still don't know much about the future of the Prime series as well, I haven't been involved in that either," he told Kotaku. "As to whether our Samus is going to be used in the Prime series going forward. You really have to defer to the wishes of the creator in this regard. Maybe think of it as the same universe but a different world view."
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"I can't say what will happen in the future with Prime but I can say there is no reboot planned as such. You just need to keep in mind that different creators, different producers have slightly different visions and the end product will differ slightly as a result."
However, Sakamoto believes that his and Team Ninja's Samus is the definitive version of Nintendo's leading lady.
"You saw in the original Metroid series titles and then through Prime there were different glimpses of the Samus character," he said. "But this is our best opportunity to date to present everything all together about Samus, to give the definitive character sketch and that is going to be something people can draw from as a resource as we pull them into the Metroid universe in the future as well."
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