Oh also Super Mario Galaxy 2, why did the trailer not have real orchestral music? Too expensive? Very confusing. Feels like one of those disney movie sequels with horrible animation and no plot.
Nintendo feeling like horrible disney makes me worry. (they're probably gonna make a shitton of money if going in that direction, too! : D)
They're basically calling Galaxy 2 an expansion pack aimed at the hardcore players that wanted more and for it to be harder, sounds good to me.
Back to Metroid, pretty sure the footage resembling gameplay was a proof of concept, the CG stuff is probably final and being used in cutscenes though.
At the moment I'm only really excited that a new Metroid is on the horizon, and it looks to be filling in the gaps with Samus's commander Adam she referenced in fusion.