April 30^th, 2002 (12:00am) - The guys at Gamespot recently got a chance to conduct a lengthy interview with Nintendo’s vice president of corporate affairs, Perrin Kaplan. In this Q&A Miss Kaplan commented on Rareware, Metroid Prime, delays, and ofcourse...E3.

Here’s an excerpt from the Q&A which sheds some light on the Rare situation...:

GS: Rare is arguably one of Nintendo’s biggest assets where exclusive games are concerned. Has Rare told Nintendo that it plans on making games for other platforms besides the GameCube and Game Boy Advance in the next few years?

PK: No, our good relationship with them continues and there aren’t any changes at this time. Star Fox is well on track to come out and they’re continuing to do their good work. We’ll see what the future holds, but we’ve stayed very close to them and they to us and they definitely have done good work with us over the years.

GS: So you don’t see them making games for the PlayStation 2 or Xbox over the next couple of years?

PK: You’d have to ask them. I don’t foresee it, but you’d have to ask them.

The entire Q&A can be found here .