#Metroid prime 4 scrapped series#
While this does mean that it will be sometime until we hear more about the game, Nintendo pledges that when it's eventually released it will stand "shoulder to shoulder with the past Metroid Prime series titles. Nintendo will also continue to work closely with the development team. With Metroid Prime 4 Delayed and a New Switch Game for Metroid coming at a later date from Retro Studios we turned to twitter to see what you guys had to say. Nintendo has now handed off development to Retro Studios, the developer of all previous Metroid Prime games. So it's rebooting it.Īnnounced on YouTube by Shinya Takahashi, Nintendo's head of development, the reboot is a regrettable move, but one that Nintendo feels it needs to make, as the game has not met its standards at this time. After its original announcement in 2017 though, the game has gone through some difficulties and Nintendo isn't pleased with its progress. Sequels from that branch of the series have been equally successful, so fans have been eagerly awaiting the release of the 4th Prime title. Then, in January 2019, Shinya Takahashi of Nintendo EPD, the game development division of Nintendo, said that Metroid Prime 4 had been completely scrapped and restarted.
It switched to the first-person perspective and was the first Metroid game to use 3D graphics rather than the more traditional 2D approach. The original Metroid Prime was a breakout hit in 2002 for the Gamecube and represented a change of pace for the franchise.
The Metroid Prime series has been a historic performer for Nintendo selling millions of copies throughout multiple titles, spanning decades of development, generations of gamers, and generations of consoles in the same breath. The good news is that it's being remade! But that does mean Nintendo is starting almost from scratch, which means it's going to be a good long while before the game sees the light of day. Hopefully now that Retro Studios is back in charge of Metroid Prime 4 development, the game will come out at just as high a quality as the last three games have.If you were hotly anticipating Nintendo's Metroid Prime 4, we have some bad news. Dark Samus, the antagonist for the Prime games, even became popular enough to become Samus’s Echo Fighter in Super Smash Bros Ultimate.
#Metroid prime 4 scrapped update#
It was presented by Shinya Takahashi, who gave an important update on the development process of Metroid Prime 4, for which there had been no significant news since its unveiling at E3 2017. All three of the Metroid Prime games not only had enormous sales but also critical acclaim, making them one of the benchmarks for the Metroid series. Development Update on Metroid Prime 4 for Nintendo Switch is a three minute video released by Nintendo on January 25, 2019. It’s no surprise that Nintendo wants to make Prime 4 high quality like the original games. Tanabe will now be heading back to Retro Studios, and hopefully the team will make Metroid Prime 4 the same labor of love that they used with the other three games. Originally, the game’s development was supposed to be done by the Singapore division of Bandai Namco, though the man behind the original three Metroid Prime games, Kensuke Tanabe, would still be working with them. Like any game series, Metroid has had its ups (Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion, Samus Returns) and downs (Other M. Nintendo putting Prime 4 back in their hands hopefully means that the fourth Metroid Prime game will be just as good. When Nintendo announced Metroid Prime 4 at E3 2017, it sent fans into a frenzy. Retro Studios was the studio behind the original three Metroid Prime games, which gave them a great deal of clout especially since those three games were critically acclaimed. Instead, they will now be working with Retro Studios in the West to restart Metroid Prime 4 development.
Despite a year of development, Nintendo believed that what they saw of Metroid Prime 4 wasn’t up to their standards. However, since then the game has had absolutely no news released about it despite multiple rumors, and a video handily released onto the internet by Nintendo explains why. Following its announcement, there were a handful of development updates, however, in 2019, it was announced that the entire Metroid Prime 4 project had been scrapped and was starting over. Metroid Prime 4 was originally announced over a year ago at E3 2017 at that year’s Nintendo conference. No updates will be forthcoming for a good while before release. Metroid Prime 4 development is being scrapped due to poor quality, and will be starting over. If you’d been looking forward to Metroid Prime 4 being released sometime in 2018 on the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo has some bad news for you.
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