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Nintendo releases video about Metroid Prime 4 development - Currently below expectations - Will redo from scratch with Retro Studios
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Metroid a big game? Haha, the big game this year is Animal Crossing.
They say starting from scratch, but I assume there are plenty of assets and shit they're going to build off of.
Prime 3 with normal controls? day one buy, it's a good game held back a bit by motion gimmicks.
the same kind of winning sony did when they shows FF7 remake?
What do you mean translation? Lol it's clear as day in no minced words. Shit was sucking and now it's being redone elsewhere.
Also with that said: Nintendo, I want my god damn MP Trilogy in the meantime.
im sure they do it (or close to it) with Zelda games all the time, ergo why games tajke 4-5 years inbetween. but this is the 1st time they are so face front "current game state is so trash we are burning it"
Well it's in development and they're honest about it being delayed at least.
Edit: I guess this means the Prime games could get ports sooner rather than later.
Edit: I guess this means the Prime games could get ports sooner rather than later.
Wow, what a weird video/announcement. Not sure I can remember anything quite like it.
Bummed it won't be coming soon. If we take the video at his word, and they have had to start from scratch we are talking at least 3-4 years.
Bummed it won't be coming soon. If we take the video at his word, and they have had to start from scratch we are talking at least 3-4 years.
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Take your time Nintendo.
Retro creating it from scratch is actually a relief. It's nice that Nintendo is just being upfront with this.
Releasing a sub-par product would've been mishandling. Making sure you release a quality game seems to me to be the opposite.
Good communication on Nintendo's part. They could have announced the trilogy as consolation though.. :)
like when Sony won E3 when they announced FF7R(isn't real), Shenmue 3(looks bad), and The Last Guardian(came and went without much noise)
Wow, Nintendo isn't typically so publicly facing about development challenges. I wonder if this means that whatever Retro was currently working on is close to announcement/release or canceled?
I'd rather Nintendo get it right then get it out in any particular timeframe. They should probably port the Trilogy to the Switch sooner rather then later as a low-effort mea culpa, though.
I'd rather Nintendo get it right then get it out in any particular timeframe. They should probably port the Trilogy to the Switch sooner rather then later as a low-effort mea culpa, though.
I guess we now know why Nintendo skip January direct this year. At least give me new Fire Emblem news. :(
fortunately they'll have animal crossing and pokemon, but as far as those critical darling oscar bait-style games, yeah - i imagine that's what they were going for.
the switch right now is also the perfect climate to launch the metroid series again in a big way, so the loss of potential here hurts too.
It's funny that some people actually thought we would get this game in 2019 when we had seen nothing from it. See you in 2022 or later Metroid Prime 4.
You do realize Zero did have a pretty significant delay and feedback period, right?
You have to think what was going wrong with the original MP4
It had to be really bad if they canceled it.
Did they even announce who was doing it?
It had to be really bad if they canceled it.
Did they even announce who was doing it?
Mishandling their own franchise would be them putting out another Other M tier game.
More likely it's wrapping up development at this point. They have to have been working on it for a while, right?
Shiggy's last delayed game was both delayed and bad though.
Take your time Nintendo.
I was referring to the full translation of it. No worries. I got the gist of it
In 2 years on Switch, Nintendo will have published:
BOTW
Odyssey
ARMS
Splatoon 2
Xenoblade 2
Kirby Star Allies
Smash Ultimate
Super Mario Party
Pokémon Let's Go
Yoshi's Crafted World
Mario Tennis
12 Switch
Labo Kits (x3)
Fire Emblem Warriors
...of the top of my head, that's 14 new titles in 2 years. Quite a bit more than "4"
Indeed. It is what it is, but let's focus on my negative feelings instead of appreciating transparency
The thing is, Nintendo HAD to announce MP4. They had the Metroid remake re&ady to launch. It would have received a lot of hate had they not said they were planning to release a new Prime game. Same thing that happened with Let's Go this year: they had to reassure people that there still was a new Gen coming. See the hate USUM received when it was not Pokémon Star. This is all there was to it, it had barely started development.
And so, In early 2017 (when they decided this I would guess) they couldn't give it to Retro because they were busy with their current project. But now that Retro is (probably) close to finishing their new game, they can start a new project.
The main problem is that they announced it in the first place. Who knows how many F-Zeros came close to being announced as being in development over the years?