Gamasutra: Was Tecmo’s deal to develop Metroid: Other M for Nintendo a pre-existing deal or something that came after the merger?
Kenji Matsubara [Koei Tecmo CEO]: It was pre-existing, so I didn’t know about that from before the merger.
Gamasutra: Obviously they were able to negotiate that as a separate entity, but that’s a part of your company now. That was, I think, a big surprise for everyone at E3.
KM: (laughs) Actually, it was very surprising for us too. Because of the contract with Nintendo, Tecmo could not disclose the exact title name before consolidation was fixed. So just before consolidation, I heard the name of the title, and whoa — that’s a big title! Yeah, that’s a very good and big surprise.
Read the full interview here.
-Justin
