The Nintendo Switch presentation unveiled the console in all its glory, and it announced a slew of new games—a good number of them unexpected. Indeed, several of the most hotly anticipated games for the Nintendo Switch weren’t announced or mentioned at all. Probably most notable among these is the new game from Retro Studios, which is widely rumored (or really just hoped) to be a new Metroid Switch game. Yet we saw neither hide nor hair of it.

Metroid Switch: What’s Going On With Retro?

Although Nintendo announced several pretty big games during the Nintendo Switch presentation—most notably Super Mario Odyssey—the company could really have used one more flagship first-party title to get everybody super jazzed for the new console. And we know Nintendo has a lot of other games in development: the Switch Pokémon game, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Pikmin 4 and, of course, whatever Retro Studios is making.

Retro Studios is most famous for the Metroid Prime trilogy, which reinvented Samus Aran for the 3D age. But for the last few years, Nintendo moved the company onto other projects—first Donkey Kong Country Returns, then Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, which came out in February 2014. Since shortly before then, most of Retro’s efforts have been focused on developing a new, unknown game. Some rumors have pointed to it being Metroid; some rumors say otherwise. And we had every reason to expect that the new game, whatever it was, would be announced during the Nintendo Switch presentation.

Clearly, that didn’t happen, and there’s really only one reason for it—whatever Retro Studios is working on, it’s not ready, even with three years of development behind it. That tells us it’s a pretty big game, and it’s reassuring in one sense: it’s proof that Nintendo has more games coming down the pipeline later on, which is good news. Still… we’d rather have it right now. Keep at it, Retro. And let’s hope it really is Metroid.