I always thought the "resident evil" is the t virus,that lives in every body it infects.
One of the plot points of Fahrenheit is that it get colder and colder as the story progresses and Fahrenheit is simply how Americans measure temperature (the only major country that doesn't use Celsius btw.). Ironically is the US version not even called Fahrenheit.
Metroid is the Chozo word meaning "ultimate warrior" and was assigned to the species upon completion of the bioweapon project. Basically Samus herself is now a Metroid in two senses of the word: she has the creatures' DNA grafted into her and she is the ultimate warrior in the galaxy by her own merit.
They tend to do quite well salewise, yes.
I think that's misremembering or not the whole story - only once did Sakaguchi say that, but he has said in multiple interviews years before that he had been planning on leaving the company go to back to university after that game, so the name was because it was his last game. And Uematsu also filled in with more information years before, saying that was true, but more that the company itself was also on the verge of going out of business, so they wanted to release a game that was their final swan-song, go out with a bang. Here's an example article: https://www.wired.com/2009/07/final-fantasy/.
Nintendo Power did a couple pieces on Pokemon before it was localized. The first big article they did called it Pocket Monsters and "Pocke-Mon" for short.
That reminds me of Yars' Revenge. The creator of that game (Howard Scott Warshaw) simply inverted the name of Ray Kassar, CEO of Atari at the time, to come up with the alien race Yar and their home planet Razak.
