In a recent interview reported by Jeux France, Shigeru Miyamoto spoke about Nintendo's plans.

Miyamoto stated that Capcom's Shinji Mikami, who has worked on Resident Evil 4, has expressed an interest in handling one of Nintendo's franchises, like Sega have done with F-Zero GX and Namco are doing with Star Fox Armada. No word on an official agreement but it sounds promising.

During the interview Miyamoto also stated that Metroid 2 should be out in 2004.