While we wait on Metroid 4, Nintendo is releasing a new 2D game in the series titled Metroid Dread.
This is the first new entry of the 2D Metroid saga in more than 19 years and takes place after Metroid Fusion.
Pre-orders for the game start today, and a Metroid Dread: Special Edition will also be available at launch, which includes the game, a steelbook, a 190-page 2D Metroid franchise artbook and five cards that feature box art from all the games in the five-part saga.
Announced today during the Nintendo E3 2012 Direct, Metroid Dread will be released for Switch on October 8.