December 4^th, 2004 (11:07am) - Nintendo Power, the official gaming magazine of Nintendo of America, has conducted an interview with Retro Studios’s senior designers Karl Deckard, Jason Behr, and Mike Wikan about their newest release, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes.

The interview is typical Nintendo, telling those who’ve played the game things that they already know. Those in search of hints towards what Retro Studios may pursue next, if not Metroid Prime 3, won’t find any quotes to dissect here.

Here’s an excerpt from the interview:

NP: Are you thinking beyond Echoes? Anything in the hopper?

Karl: We’ve got 10,000 ideas. Every time you come out of a project you say "Man, if I have four more months I’d do this!", and that’s always the seeds of whatever you’re going to do next.

Mike: Seeds from Prime are in Metroid Prime 2. We were successful the last time, we knew what we didn’t have a chance to do last time, we knew what we wanted to do this time, and we have the best people in the industry as far as I’m concerned. We’re here approaching the end, so right now we’re just focused on making this one good.

The entire interview can be read at Nintendo of America’s official website by clicking here.