Like dashv (I believe) said, don't pine for another Metroid. Go play Ori and the Blind Forest instead. It's a great "metroidvania" title. So is Song of the Deep.
Nintendo are just assholes. I'm done. I'm tired of waiting & hoping & dreaming about what they could do, only to have my soul crushed by their brain-dead shenanigans. When was the last time fans got a proper 2D Metroid? The Game Boy Advance titles?
How long ago was that!? I'll tell you when - 2004!
Twelve friggin' years ago! I'm sick of Nintendo apologists and even at one time being one myself. I'm not going to sit here and pretend or tell people "Just wait until Zelda comes out!" Because it won't make a damn bit of difference!
And look at the NX! Instead of making a powerful console that can compete with the Xbox One and PS4, all signs point to a weak-sauce half-ass portable running a Tegra processor and using tiny cartridges with extremely limited capacity. It's graphics are going to be shit. It's battery life is going to be shit. Third parties aren't going to port their AAA titles to this thing. If for nothing else, because it will be so radically different from the architecture of the PS4 and Xbox One. And we aren't talking about a company with clout like Sony to negotiate or that developers will be chasing after them to release their titles.
The NX is doomed to fail, just as the Wii U before it. While certainly stronger than console sales, Nintendo's portable sales have been steadily declining. I know my kids and all their friends couldn't give two shits about carrying around a Nintendo or any other portable for gaming. They have Androids and iPhones with
free games that are long enough to keep them entertained. Especially since the "next big thing" happens just days or weeks after the last anymore it seems.
So this is where Nintendo and I part ways. I've sold my Wii U and the last few games I had for it. I hadn't touched the damn thing since February. I'll always have my fond memories of the NES and SNES days and many great handheld titles from the past. But Nintendo has officially lost me. I can no longer abide by or support their brain-dead ways. I'm happy for those of you who wish to continue supporting Nintendo and enjoying their games. But for me, it's like they keep throwing up obstacles to keep me from playing their games. That's fine. If they want to make it painfully difficult to play & enjoy their wares, I'll save myself the pain and just buy a game for one of the two normal systems I own, with perfectly fine controllers that don't require me to shake or twirl them or stand on my fucking head.