Thanks, that was my short lived thread. It's certainly interesting how much they've been on board but I guess it is highly speculative to make the reach to an IP collaboration from that support. I mean, Ubisoft hasn't shown the kind of support that Bethesda has and they were given a Mario game, so maybe that's not the reason Bethesda is showing this support.
Anyway, I do think we'll hear about two or three third party collaborations this year, though maybe not next week, including MP4 probably.
Of course it's highly speculative! Lol. It's possible they've been in talks for a while and used their current games as tests as to whether there was an audience for such games. It's odd Nintendo mentioned a "new team" but has since said absolutely nothing about it. Perhaps it wasn't set in stone yet.
Maybe we will know more next week, but I honestly I don't expect much if any Metroid talk in the direct.