Sakamoto – Metroid: Other M doesn’t feature an online component
A portion of a Joystiq interview with producer Yoshio Sakamoto…
J: Will there be any online component to Other M? And, if not, why isn’t online a priority?
YS:There’s no online functionality in this title, and the reason for that is that Other M does not rely on that as one of the core design ideas. They’re thinking more about the single-player style that you’ve seen in all Metroid games up until this point. And one of the specific goals here is to convey the charm of Samus as a character and to bring forth several perspectives on what kind of personality she has and how she reacts to situations. So online wouldn’t really factor into that kind of character development as a core idea. If they were going to design a Metroid game with an online functionality it really would’ve had to have come in at the ground floor, when they come up with the design of the game.
