Shinya Takahashi

Shinya Takahashi (born November 9, 1963 in Kyoto, Japan) is the General Manager of the Entertainment Planning & Development Division at Nintendo. Having joined the company in 1989, he initially worked on graphic design. In 2010, he was promoted to general producer and has produced almost all Nintendo-published games since then, including two Metroid games for Nintendo 3DS: Metroid Prime: Federation Force and Metroid: Samus Returns. Takahashi has presented at the Nintendo Switch Presentation 2017 in January 2017, and the Nintendo Spotlight at E3 2017.

In 2014, Takahashi spoke to Kotaku about Nintendo's plans for the Metroid series, which had been on hiatus since Metroid: Other M four years prior. He acknowledged that fans wanted new traditional Metroid games and a continuation of the Prime Series, and said that Nintendo hoped to bring them those games in the near future. Three years later, Samus Returns (a classic title) and Metroid Prime 4 (a Prime title) were both announced during the Nintendo Spotlight at E3 2017. A year after Takahashi's comment, a spinoff of the series, Metroid Prime: Federation Force was announced, and then released in 2016.