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Former Retro Studios dev says a Metroid Prime Trilogy Switch port “would take a lot of effort” and is “skeptical” of it happening
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I feel like it never hurts to be skeptical about Retro's output capacity. I can believe that the next Retro game we'll see is Metroid Prime 4. Wouldn't mind an HD release of Trilogy, but Metroid is a low priority franchise for NIntendo.
Heh, remember when some people were convinced there would be some unannounced new game from Retro in between Tropical Freeze and Metroid Prime 4, cause Retro couldn't have gone all those years without something to show for it?
Heh, remember when some people were convinced there would be some unannounced new game from Retro in between Tropical Freeze and Metroid Prime 4, cause Retro couldn't have gone all those years without something to show for it?
I used to be like you. Back in 2018.
Now in 2021 ... Im not so sure.
They have spent quite a good amount of resources for being a low priority. I mean, started from scratch to a new studio, and it's clearly a AAA title. Samus returns in 2017, this year thw rumoured metroid 5, prime 4, probably prime trilogy. It sells like shit, but it's still important for Nintendo.
This doesn't seem like a lot. Even with that cost added on top of the usual porting process and low balling MPTHD at 1 million copies, they'd return their investment several fold over.Wikan said:
Not that I necessarily believe the insiders, but that's typical Nintendo. Though, to be fair, that was more of a Reggie thing.
People used to go on and on about how Retro would be a two team studio and put out games faster. Those were the days haha.
It's really weird, Zhuge was one, right?
I love Nintendo, but some of their decisions are hard to understand. If the game is genuinely finished they should have released it shortly after the MP4 delay.
Several did. But several reliable insiders also said that Star Fox Grand Prix was real too.
I wonder if it would actually be cheaper to just have the game be Physical Only and come with a new Switch compatible Wii-Mote + Nunchuk (and then have Mario Galaxy 2 pop up with compatibility with them).
Prime Trilogy would likely sell best as a promotion for Prime 4, so if it did exist and was done and I was Nintendo I wouldn't release it until Prime 4 had a more concrete date. They're making money hand over fist with Switch, doesn't really seem like they'd need to put out Prime Trilogy early. I always assumed if it existed it got delayed when Prime 4 did so they could come out the same year (Trilogy around E3 and Prime 4 around Black Friday).
Prime Trilogy would likely sell best as a promotion for Prime 4, so if it did exist and was done and I was Nintendo I wouldn't release it until Prime 4 had a more concrete date. They're making money hand over fist with Switch, doesn't really seem like they'd need to put out Prime Trilogy early. I always assumed if it existed it got delayed when Prime 4 did so they could come out the same year (Trilogy around E3 and Prime 4 around Black Friday).
It'd be kinda weird to be like, "Here's Metroid Prime 1 and 2, now please be excited for Metroid Prime 4!"
I guess they could remedy it by dropping the 4 and just giving it a subtitle though. I don't want them to pretend 3 doesn't exist though... It's a great game.
Not sure about Zhuge, but Nate, Emily, king Zell, Thugstas, among others.
But the game is nearly finish now, not two years ago. The rumour says it's MercursySteam who is making the game, and they released Samus Returns in 2017. So it makes sense as a develop cycle of 4 years. I think they haven't bringed anything during this time.
the effort part suggests that they'd need to spend money and effort to do it and these games won't sell enough to justify that (remember the original Trilogy release never got to a million and that was the easy port)
though i'd be fine with a Prime 1 + 2 combo. if they can emulate the first 2 in the same way Sunshine was emulated, that's be enough.
though i'd be fine with a Prime 1 + 2 combo. if they can emulate the first 2 in the same way Sunshine was emulated, that's be enough.
Metroid Prime 3 is a great game.
But it also takes me back to a time where I wanted to convince myself that it would look better than 360/PS3 games and it makes me cringe.
From an art direction standpoint, I would literally put Prime 3 against any game ever made. Skytown especially is just magnificent.
It's 100% finished, sitting right there on the shelf next to Star Fox Grand Prix. Nintendo's just waiting for the right moment.
Maybe it's just me, but I feel like 4-5 people working in it for a year isn't that big of a deal? I was kinda under the impression most remasters took a few dozen people a good few months, which would about equate...
Never got around to playing Metroid Prime 2 (I don't know why I own 1 and 3, I almost bought Trilogy during blockbuster closing sale but someone knicked it before I got there), I was hoping the rumors of Nintendo sitting on the Trilogy for Switch were kind of true. (MP2/Trilogy Wii go for $100+ CDN apparently)
No, I'm with you. A handful of people spending a year or so seems.. reasonable?
No, I'm with you. A handful of people spending a year or so seems.. reasonable?
Seems like he left the company 8-10 years ago? I'm sure he's correct about the technical challenges but not necessarily the corporate decision making to still do it or not. It's not like retro has exactly had a lot of output in the last decade to have distracted them away from potential technical challenges anyway
Haven't played to MP3 but how does PrimeHack's KB/M controls handle that?
I found original traditional controls horrible so I hope they make a more modern focus on them :/
But so many insiders claimed to have knowledge that it was done and ready.
Either way, I'll be interested to see if it does release on Switch. If not, I own the GameCube games, the physical trilogy and Wii and I think the digital version on Wii U.
Could have been a controlled leak by Nintendo to root out leakers.
Maybe Starfox Racing was the same. One place leaked it and then everyone and their mother claimed that they'd also heard about this from their 'sources'. What a joke.
Great. So probably no MPT port, no Eternal Darkness port, but thanks for half-assedly porting some fucking Mario games, Nintendo. Why port some actually interesting stuff when there's Mario games to milk? 🙄
Even if we get Prime Trilogy, I am entirely sure they are developing Prime 4 knowing most of the audience has never touched a Metroid game before.
Why are you acting like this is an announcement? Lol
It's just a dev who worked there over a decade ago.
Yeah, especually if Tanabe goes on with is obsession with Sylux, and you dont need any contest for it
But they will probably reference the Phazon, maybe in some log or scan
A year's work for a team of four to five people doesn't sound exactly hard to overcome, though? That's what, a 1.5 million development budget? Seeing how software has been selling on Switch, that seems easy enough to turn profitable, even accounting for logistics and advertising. Especially if there's a halo effect for Metroid Prime 4.
