Funny story - Jonathan Metts, the host of Radio Free Nintendo (an awesome Nintendo podcast, here's a
GAF thread dedicated to it) was at E3 last year and was chatting with Tom Happ at the Axiom Verge booth and Reggie Fils-Aime showed up. Reggie jokingly said something to the effect of "wow, this looks familiar!" to Tom and Johnny stepped in and basically said "well, SOMEBODY has to make a Metroid game!"
Pretty hilarious lol