Possible. theyd still have to explain Axl's absence though. thats one big thing. they have to explain a situation for him.
Considering what they did to Bass in MM9 I'm not expecting much. We'd probably see Axl lying in the background somewhere with a microscope hooked up to his forehead.
And I'd prefer the LiveMetals evolve into MMZ's Chips; the Chips could be made out of the LiveMetal ore. Now we have an explanation for chips, and why X was limited to only one in X3. In MMZ, the new Reploids have higher tolerances.
*a'hem* Live Metal = Japanese term for Biometal, which MMZ predates and as such no MMZ content can "evolve" from it without involving time travel. I believe you're thinking of Force Metal, the stuff from Command Mission.
......and you do realize Force Metal never existed on the planet before the meteor presumably never identified until 2202 fell to Earth, right? It's impossible for that to be relevant to X3 (21XX). MMZ and beyond? Possible, but unlikely. If it happened, it would be severely downplayed compared to its intentions. Force Metal was expected to render Energen crystals obsolete. At best guess two centuries later in MMZ, that never happened, probably due to how dangerous it is; over-exposure to Force Metal causes an extremely high likelihood of Maverick behavior. The quantity of Force Metal is not so relevant as its strength (utilized in gameplay as "erosion/immunity", and highly focused on in story with the whole SFM warheads and all).
"Chips" in MMZ step on the same territory as Power-Up Parts in earlier X games, of which you could equip up to 4 in X5 and Xtreme2, and 5 in X6. Then there's X7, which had, what, 12 Chips to a character (it's been a while)? And X8, which had its own "metal" (not Force Metal) system had a whole freaking list of Chips applied simultaneously. X3's Chips are a different concept, they were distributed by Light specifically for use in X's armor, and impossible to use without first obtaining the specific armor part it was to be installed into. I'd say that concept is more comparable to X8's Neutral Armor parts than anything else.
I, personally, wouldn't want another X game. They already admitted that the story ends in Mega Man X5 and 6-8 is considered to be non-canon. I'd rather a new classic series game that bridges the Classic and X series.
Enough people have corrected you that I shouldn't have to explain this. But since I'm bored enough that I feel like straightening things out for the record: There are numerous references between later X games that confirms their validity. First of all MMZ, despite whatever its conception was, was released to follow X6's "sneak peek" ending and not X5 (Zero is sealed deliberately, behind a force field with his name on the door, not to mention with LEGS; as opposed to being left in a junk heap as in X5). X7 foreshadows MMZ twice; facing Snipe Anteater as Zero, and beating the game as Zero. Z1 and Z3 feature Orbital Elevators which are given a lot of emphasis across X8 and XCM. MMZOCW outlines plain as day that Zero was placed in stasis twice during the series gap; once before and once after Elf Wars. Zero's involvement in Elf Wars is irreconcilable with an X-series timeline that ends at X5; he HAS to come back from that beforehand. And this is not even touching the obvious, even if in-game unconfirmed, design inspiration of Axl in Biometal Model A, along with more story parallels between ZXA and the X-series Copy Chip arc than I care to count.
You could not, in any way, shape, form, or scent (that's right, I can SMELL the error on you), be any more wrong.
the next X game should be an Xtreme 3. maybe with different graphic, but a typical Xtreme storyline.
I'm all for that. Although, to be honest, I've often envisioned an Xtreme continuation tying in more with the main-series story. Xtreme1 and 2 were independent stories that just
happened to take place earlier than the currently released main-series games, and reused bosses and flaunted my fanboyishly favorite repli-gal. I'd like to see something that deals with the aftermath of the conflicts of X4 and X6 (X6 technically IS the aftermath of X5, so no need to go there). X4 especially, for more Iris references if nothing else. Seriously, I cannot swallow that no baddies thought to try and salvage 1/2 of the ultimate Reploid when she came so close to success, and regardless of whether or not they work out the kinks, still has OBVIOUS mind-farking value against Zero.