What Happened to Metroid Prime 4?
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- čas přidán 22. 05. 2024
- Metroid prime 4 is supposed to be a more ambitious entry in the series, but is this really the reason we haven’t seen anything from it?
We haven’t seen anything about the game for over 5 years now, but it turns out there may be a pretty important reason for that
Some people think that we haven’t seen anything yet because it got rebooted at some point back in 2019. It makes sense! But I have a few issues with it. Sure, This tells us why it’s been so long, but it doesn’t explain the lack of trailers. Also, the game was in development for 2 years before the reboot, and still there was nothing, so something weird was going on. I reckon that they had an awesome idea at first and were excited to announce that it was finally in the works, but then things started to go downhill. Maybe there were unforeseen setbacks, development was taking longer than expected, or maybe their initial idea just wasn’t coming into fruition
Now, 4 years after the game was restarted, we obviously should see at least one trailer. Look at tears of the kingdom. That game got a teaser when it was only 1 year into development.
Technically, we’ve seen a ‘teaser’ but it’s literally just the logo with the number 4. Not much to go off really, but I bet some CZcamsrs have attempted to analyse what the number means.
However, there are actually some hints that point us towards what’s happened to this game.
The game started development with Bandai Namco, but it was eventually moved to retro studios, who are the original creators of Metroid prime. This may mean that what they had in mind is a bit of a shakeup for the series, however when developing with Bandai Namco, things started to stray a bit too far away from what makes Metroid Metroid, so they gave the work to the original creators, who know Metroid prime inside out. However, given it’s been so long since prime 3 on the wii, retro studios may have different staff who are unfamiliar with the series, hence the long wait time. For context, the first 3 prime games took only 2 or 3 years to develop. Sure, nowadays games are bigger making them harder to develop, but we’ve also got new technology that makes things easier. I think. I’m not a developer so don’t quote me on that
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its possible theyre gonna use it as a launch title for whatever console follows the switch. so it may even be near completion, but wont be released yet because timing
metroid isn't a powerful enough IP to sell a console. that's zelda, mario, and smash.
i guess it's possible for it to be a cross-generation game, but expect at least one of those other 3 to be a launch title as well. i'm willing to bet it will be a brand new mario game, odyssey 2 or something.
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I've discovered an Easteregg/Hint for Prime 4! In the Metroid Prime Remastered gallery under Extras, World Remastered - the 10th slide shows Samus in a T-Pose, in the echoes/corruption Varia Suit!
It will come out after Mettoïd Prime 3: corruption remastered with the same engine.
With Mettoid Prime remastered you have the gamplay, controls and graphies.
Covid surely slowed it down at Retro. Tears of the Kingdom took over 6 years, and we're still two years away from Prime 4 taking that long. I don't think Nintendo wants to show it until they have a firm release date after they embarrassed themselves with the restart. It's gonna be like Dread where it is a short window from reveal to release. I see Prime Remastered as the beginning of Nintendo getting us ready for Prime 4. We're definitely hearing about it soon.
Prime 4 is the Gta 6 of the Metroid prime series, it’s prolly gonna release late but it’ll be huge
we have newer technology to make games, and we have bigger teams to make them, but the scope of games has increased by a wide margin. gone are the days where a game like super smash bros. melee could be made in 11 months, with the majority of the cleanup being done by one guy near the end of its development. gone are the days where a super small studio of like 3 people could make the first 3d game on the SNES. nintendo has been working on tears of the kingdom for an incredibly long time and they already had the engine for it, and the team working on that game is likely substantially larger than retro's working on metroid prime 4.
i think it is a possibility they were also unsure of whether to make the game a canonical sequel to metroid prime 3 or to metroid dread, and trying to hedge on what they would do based on how well metroid dread sold. maybe they were hoping it would sell well so it could increase their funding to implement certain things in the game.
Metroid Prime 4 - Indeed, it is still being developed.
3:09 Metroid Prime 4 will look so impressive on Nintendo Switch, everyone will question how this impressive looking game at 60fps is running with no framerate drops.
That or Pokemon SV
@@Max128ping Metroid Prime 4 of course.
prime bros i dont feel so good
Now that we are close to the switch 2. And its the same people that worked on God of war 2018 it makes me excited. They are able to make beautiful character driven cutscenes with silent protaganist. I can just imagine the gameplay of metroid primer with boss fights and cutscenes of god of war. That would be easy goty
When MP remaster released and we did not get a single image from MP4 it says a lot. It says we are not getting the game on the switch. 1. 2. It suggests a possibility that the games development has been halted. Even if it meant revealing switch 2 footage, if it was close to done by now, or significantly close to done, they would have shown it. We got silence.
I have a good friend who works on this game at Retro, and while she's always careful to not talk about its progress in any kind of detail, she's happy to debunk the naysayers and the rumor mill.
Later we'll know more about why Nintendo approached Retro in the first place, but for now your take is about as good as it gets IMO.
My friend can't share details, and that's understandable.
What she did say is that she's stoked on it. She's excited for people to finally get to play it, and hopes are high that it will be a hit with fans of the original Prime.
For context, she's a Metroid Prime fan and worked heavily on the remaster as well.
Hopefully with the new year we'll see more info on its development.
Without any kind of credible info, my pie-in-the-sky hope is that we'll see Metroid Prime 4 holiday 2024 or early 2025. Fingers crossed 🤞
Pikmin 4 is out, hopefully Metroid prime 4 is next
The Switch 2 will probably come out this year or next. I think M.P.4. will be one of the flagship games for it.
If that happens I will not be buying no Nintendo console ever again. Because they have proven to be lazy at developing anything
@@thereisnopandemic Double negative, you just said you would be buying every Nintendo console. You idiot, learn proper grammar.
even if it is getting released on the next console, i could totally see this being another BOTW situation where it drops on both the Switch and the next Nintendo console just so people arent alienated and arent forced to immediately buy a new console
Will definitely be on switch 2 😭
Where did you get that sick metroid wallpaper?
The one that was showed on the switch? I think i took a screenshot of it in Metroid dread
You say they optimise their own games, but i can't help think of the piss poor frame-rate issues of the Link's Awakening remake.
0:51 Tears of the Kingdom have been in development since 2017, Creating a Champion confirm this
Not a bad video. I don’t know if you’re making informed enough points for substance though
My hunch is that the game is too demanding on the Switch so they are waiting for the next console. Only thing that really makes sense in my mind
Maybe it have been finish but the game will just not work with the switch and Nintendo refuse to release it due to tp the performance being too bad
@@QnjtGWonQNqVsbYyzjx4 pokemon tells a different story
@@beardalaxy The Pokémon company DON’T care about their mainline games anymore. Hence, the hot mess. S & V works perfectly fine on switch and they just release a broken game. Pokémon is the Switch’s COD, Nintendo put the most care about it but it still fall under the rush release tactics of them and basically ruined by Game Freak and Creatures. Creatures only care about marketability of their mech and it is best that it is the most accessible. Nintendo is the best out of the three. Game Freak don’t care as the Pokémon will sell even if the game itself is broken. It’s a kid game on their eyes.
nope. the Metroid Prime games are incredibly optimized, hence why MP Remastered plays so well. the game's way of rendering each room individually and only ever rendering whats in Samus' view and never whats outside of it means theres immense room for more and more to be added
@@spimbles Yeah, sure but why prime 4 take so long? Perhaps it’s a open world Metroid game
Some of the best games have gone through it. Nintendo still endures since 1800’s. They’ll get through this.
I don’t believe Nintendo will go back on their word. Prime 4 will be on the current switch and it’s successor as well.
But if you could just go anywhere in a Metroid game it wouldn't be a Metroidvania, and It is pretty open if you ignore the Metroidvaina factor.
It would be a big middle finger to the fans if it's exclusive on the next console, even botw got a wii u port
How is that a middle finger, that’s like saying it’s a big middle finger to fans since super Mario 3d world isn’t on the Wii but only the Wii U
@kp6903 no because announced that Metroid Prime 4 would be on the switch when the switch launched, so for the game to not even be on the switch would be disappointing. Nintendo did announce Mario 3D World when the wii came out saying you're beyond the wii so that analogy makes no sense
@@LincolnAKAVenox yeah I guess that is true but to be fair idk why they would release it on both consoles when the people who want the game that bad will probly just get the next console anyway but I know not everyone will be able to get the new console so idk
@kp6903 I'm getting the next console I just find it scummy that they announce something and don't follow through with releasing it on that console
On the Walmart app it says the game ships by January 4th not sure how legit that is
Here's a conspiracy theory. Nintendo is waiting until the Switch 2 (just credibly leaked) to release it as a launch title.
3:18 development of Metroid Prime Remastered was mostly done by outsorching studios
actually, very little was done by outsourcing
@@olsonbryce777 source that development of Metroid Prime Remastered has little outsourching
Relax. It's for Switch 2 this holiday 2023
Yep I totally agree. I think it's going to be one of the flagship games for it. Can't wait for the Switch 2.
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Metroid Prime 4? More like Metroid Prime for God's sake. I'll just go back to playing Astral Chain, instead.
prime 4 on the switch should be pure motion controls like 3 was. F U all those who thought the GC controller was better. Using the grapple beam and aiming at the screen is so much fun.
Hard disagree. Never bought a wii because I hated the motion controls.