Metroid Dread studio MercurySteam appears to confirm it's making Metroid Ravenous, addressing a lingering question from yesterday's Nintendo Direct

✍️ What we know so far

Automatic note by LuaCat Games, built from what we know about the coverage (who reported it, how many sites, the story’s history) — not a translation or copy of the source.

This comes from Eurogamer, which does its own reporting — for now, it's the only coverage. Worth remembering the scale here: Metroid changed what people expected from the genre back in 1986, and the bar stayed up. The previous Metroid trailer came out one day before this story.

Bottom line: Safe to take the main point — it's the fine detail that sometimes shifts later.