Let’s look at that date – Monday 2nd January 2023. This could be because it’s nonesense, or it could be because Shigeru Miyamoto is giving Jeff Bezos a verbal whipping for the mistake. Nintendo and Amazon have yet to comment on the date leak.
This means that the fourth game in the canon will be releasing 21 years after the first title came out on the GameCube and 16 years after the last instalment in the Metroid Prime series. Amazon has leaked the supposed release date to a customer who pre-ordered the game back in 2017. We’re sorry to break the news to all the readers hoping for a 2021 release, but there it is. The Metroid Prime 4 release date is set for Monday 2 January, 2023. This would be especially true if BOTW2 drops on the old Switch before the new Prime game release date. If Metroid Prime does release on the Nintendo Switch 2, however, then it might be a title that Nintendo uses to sell the new console.
#Metroid prime 4 scrapped pro#
It’s unknown whether Switch Pro games will receive Switch releases akin to the Wii/GameCube Twilight Princess release. While it would be great to play a new Metroid Prime game on the existing Switch, Samus would look super-slick in 4K. If the Metroid Prime 4 release date stays the same, then it’s safe to say that this could be one of the first titles on the Nintendo Switch Pro. Switch Pro Credit: COMPUTER BILD / game Still Credit: WccFTech Which Consoles Will Metroid Prime 4 Be Available On? They have even appointed new members of staff for specific roles. The Retro Studios team that worked on the first three Metroid Prime games has been working on developing the new title for a number of months now. Nintendo has revealed that Retro Studios is currently making Metroid Prime 4. Thankfully, that looks as though it’s about to change. She’s a firm Nintendo fixture that, for some reason, seems to get less attention than Mario and Link. Some of you may have played as Samus on Super Smash Bros. Played from a first-person-view through Samus’ helmet, players explore space crafts, underworld dungeons, and dingy uninhabited overworlds in a quest to power up Samus’s suit while battling space pirates and escaping the clutches of evil. Metroid Prime was the first 3D Samus game produced by Nintendo and featured stunning alien planet levels with some of the biggest enemies I’ve ever seen. It’s one of the best GameCube games of all time and hardly ever left my Cube back in the day. The Metroid Prime trilogy first started back on the GameCube in 2002. While the news is undoubtedly disappointing for Metroid fans, Nintendo’s transparency regarding the issue and Retro Studios involvement will hopefully go some way to alleviate concerns.Samus Aran in the iconic varia suit on the left, and the newer Zero Suit on the right. The statement revealed that Retro Studios previously had another title in the pipeline, which until now was unconfirmed.
#Metroid prime 4 scrapped series#
Nintendo’s decision to “reexamine the development structure” will now bring the Metroid Prime series back to its original developers and hopefully back to store shelves in the future.įollowing the announcement, a past employee of Retro Studios voiced concerns that “unless Retro has grown to a two game studio” the game he was working on in August 2015 may have been shelved. We strongly recognize that this delay will comes as a disappointment to the many fans who have been looking forward to the launch of Metroid Prime 4.Īlthough the previous development team had never officially been announced, project descriptions uncovered on LinkedIn suggested that Bandai Namco’s Singapore studio were most likely handling the title. This change will essentially mean restarting development from the beginning, so the completion of the game will be delayed from our initial internal plan. Previous work on Metroid Prime 4 has now been scrapped and the game has officially been delayed.ĭespite the setback, Takahashi confirmed that the project would still be going ahead – this time with Retro Studios and producer Kensuke Tanabe on board to help create a game that would “meet our fans’ expectations”. Now, more than 19 months later, Nintendo’s Head of Development Shinya Takahashi has revealed that the game simply wasn’t up to Nintendo’s quality standards. Metroid Prime 4 was first announced to be in development for Switch during E3 2017’s Nintendo Direct. The game will now undergo development from scratch with series producer Kensuke Tanabe working collaboratively alongside Retro Studios. Nintendo has announced that development work for Metroid Prime 4 has been binned due to unsatisfactory quality.
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