![]() ![]() It’s also worth at least mentioning the Metroid Prime Trilogy Switch remaster here, since it’s been a subject of fevered anticipation for at least as long as the Switch has been around. (The first-person perspective is a hallmark of the Metroid Prime subseries if Retro wanted to make a side-scroller, then it wouldn’t include “Prime” in the title.) Whether Samus will explore one big planet, as in the first game, a planet with light and dark halves, as in the second game, or multiple smaller planets, as in the third game, is anyone’s guess. That means it will be a first-person shooter with the same exploration and gear upgrade elements that you’d expect from any Metroid game. We may not know for years, although it’ll make an interesting postmortem someday.Īt the very least, we can say that Metroid Prime 4 will probably have gameplay similar to the first three Metroid Prime games. ![]() Perhaps the original studio was trying something different, and Retro has something more traditional in mind maybe the reverse is true. Even if we did, though, it would likely be material from the first studio’s build, and would therefore have no bearing on the Metroid Prime 4 that fans eventually get to play. It’s difficult to say anything concrete about Metroid Prime 4’s gameplay, since we don’t have any screenshots or footage to work from. You can watch it yourself if you’ve got 42 seconds to spare: We do actually have a short teaser trailer for Metroid Prime 4, although it’s basically just the “Metroid Prime 4” logo materializing out of space. In short, Metroid Prime 4 is likely a long way out. And by then, who knows if the Nintendo Switch will even be Nintendo’s go-to platform? Perhaps, then, we’ll see Metroid Prime 4 in 2023 - although 2024 is more likely. ![]() If Metroid Prime 4 had been in development since 2017 and Nintendo pulled the plug in early 2020, that may suggest that the company had a three-year development cycle in mind. Sometimes the series goes eight years without an entry sometimes it gets two entries in a single year. There’s no pattern to Metroid release times. ![]() Where does that leave Metroid Prime 4’s release date? The series timeline up until this point doesn’t necessarily help that much. Until Atlus or Nintendo make official announcements for such titles, this is all purely conjecture and hearsay.This is good news for longtime fans, as Retro Studios developed the first three Metroid Prime games, all of which fell somewhere between “well-received” and “beloved.” But it’s also potentially bad news, since it means that a game with at least three years of development time had to jettison all progress and start again. It being deleted or not means nothing anyway until they're officially announcedĪs with all rumors, we stress again to all NintendoSoup readers to take this information with a large pinch of salt. Basically, the listings are still there in one form Just to clarify on the Best Buy thing, the Switch listings are still there in its RSS, but not on their CoreBlue system. While traces of those listing are still present in the system’s RSS, Best Buy most likely took action to clean up some sort of mistake. According to various trusted sources of Wario64, Best Buy has taken down those listings. Namely, that Persona 5, Metroid Prime Trilogy, and The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past were all listed for Nintendo Switch.Īpparently, the plot has now thickened. Previously, we reported about a supposed leak from one of Best Buy’s CoreBkue employee terminals. ![]()
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