Itoi/Iwata full interview - Itoi says no Mother 4, Iwata says no new Mother games 'using the same production system'

Will there or will there not be another Mother game? Let this snippet from the Iwata/Itoi/Nagata interview confuse you!

ITOI: I’m not going to release a MOTHER 4; MOTHER is over now. But lately I’ve started to really appreciate having released three MOTHER games. That’s why I thought I’d come see you, Mr. Iwata, so I could talk about those feelings with you.

NAGATA: Mr. Iwata. If you were in a position where you HAD to give an answer and someone asked you if a MOTHER 4 would ever be released, what would you say?

IWATA: If someone asked me that right now?

ITOI: Like if you were at a presentation meeting or something.

IWATA: ……

NAGATA: ……

IWATA: …… I don’t believe there will be any new MOTHER games made using the same production system as before.

NAGATA: I see.

ITOI: Mr. Iwata’s words just now say it all.

IWATA: Yes.

ITOI: Well put. Like I said before, I’ve started to grow fond of people who like the MOTHER games, but to put that in a cooler way, I might say, “The very lives you’re living now are MOTHER 4.” I really feel that way. “Today we had lots of ridiculous thoughts, today we felt sadness, today we laughed a lot.” That’s what I had set out to do within the world of those games.

How’s that? Is that enough for your article?

NAGATA: Yes, it’s more than enough. Could you give some closing words?

ITOI: POTENTIAL!

NAGATA: Thank you.