This reads like you just took a bunch of rumors and insider information over the years as fact without verifying whether or not it's true.
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Retro Studios reportedly pitched a demo for Prime 4 themselves, which Nintendo liked, MPT port for Switch has been done for a while (and more)
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This reads like you just took a bunch of rumors and insider information over the years as fact without verifying whether or not it's true.
I could see them trying a full open world Metroid after BoTW.
Or in the worst case...been cancelled.
(But I think Retro made the Demo and said they could help with Development because they nearly finished their other project
Damn, I was hoping for higher resolution textures and maybe reworked lighting + shadows.
He said he does not know anything other than that, not that they've just done that.
Seems like they were trying the Ubisoft approach to development.
Nintendo has been pretty consistent having a big Nintendo-published game a month since the first few months of the Switch's release so I expect this year will be no different. We had NSMBU DX this month so I would expect an early Feb direct with a lot of dates for the year with MPT being one of them.
Metroid has split lore, though, and only Sakamoto makes main-story games. Metroid 5 will definitely be a Sakamoto game.
while i agree that motion is more accurate than dual sticks can be(still think it NEEDS to have dual stick controls to work in handheld mode ofc), but it will never beat the IR pointer of the wii.
At this point im even wondering if MP4 will be a switch(exclusive) title anymore or that is skipping the switch entirely. Dont forget that this will probably take 3 to 4 years at best with the current state retro being much smaller that the OG team. That puts us in 2023/2024 meaning year 7 of the switch.
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We already have access to native GameCube controllers too... So that'd be nice
We know they do for sure because of the Chinese NVidia shield versions of TP and Mario Galaxy
Motion Controls for shooters were and have always been far, far better than duel analog sticks.
We would have been better off if Sony and MS adopted IR sensor aiming. People always bitch about motion control aiming, but casually ignore that developers literally have to put cheats into the game to make up for how inaccurate analog sticks are
It makes zero sense to me to save all of the Metroid games for one time period. Why realase Prime Trilogy and Prime 4 close together? Put out Trilogy soonish to hold people over and then release Metroid Prime 4 when it's ready. Give people some time to miss Metroid again instead of dumping them all out near each other.
I own the trilogy and still haven't gotten around Mercury's 3DS game. I'll be happy to skip Switch if Prime 4 takes too long and releases on their next console as well like Zelda did. All these games will eventually be re-released anyways and I have a huge backlog.
Sounds more like a repeat of the Kid Icarus Uprising/Project Sora model...
... a model that lead to a very dysfunctional and disastrous development process; and the decision to go with Namco for Smash and to disband Project Sora.
I assume you mean in style, where MPT would have gotten the Bayonetta 1-2 announcement?
Yea. With how retro can do stuff and them having their own demo, 2022 is not unrealistic.
They only pitched a demo, its not like actual development is being done. Maybe some storyboarding, artwork ect. My guess is that they go to full production after they finished they project they are working on right now(whatever it is). It really doesnt sound like MP4 from retro was pitched in september/october.tho. Hope im wrong ofc, but stil taking into account your timeframe of late 2018 would still push it past 2021/22 if development is going smooth and retro has a good number of devs by then.
It really sounds like a last minute desission based on probably a demo of some sort. But yea namco bandai and the presumable idea to let multiple namco studios make the game backfired big time. BC even for nintendo this is unprecedented, so they must have really fucked it up.
3 years would be early 2022. I could for sure see earlyish 2022 if things go really good.
If that happened and prime 4 was great, nintendo should just give retro the keys to everything.
If MPT would be announced a month ago, it wouldn't be at a Direct. It would have been announced at TGA, just as quite a few people suggested it would at the time.
But I think it's still a big chance the MPT announcement will come at the next Direct. To me, the MP4 announcement today, and the Smash 2.0 update arriving "within 7 days" suggests the Direct might be next week.
I bet we find out down the line, at least some stuff. It will make everyone even happier that this happened.
If they started late last year that would give them two solid years which would be more time than they had for MP2
Well it all really depends on multiple things, one being is there any talent left at retro or is is basically nintendos "rare" studio. Totally not saying that retro is incompetent, but they havent released a game in 5 years and they havent shown anything about their current project.
Does retro need to make a new engine from scratch, its not like they can use the mp3 engine and be done. Mp3 was released more than 10 years ago, in the SD era. And although the art still looks fine, it would really help development if they have a engine that is HD ready to go.
Wasnt namco bandai rumored to use UE4 for MP4?
I think they'd want it in the fiscal year ending March 2022 for sure. Whether it's a holiday 2021 tentpole or an early 2022 title likely depends on how development goes and what other titles Nintendo has close to releasing then (Retro's last game was delayed until Q1 for strategic reasons).
I mean, it's possible they knew there were problems with the game but most studios do that all the time with several IPs.
Next Level Games did the same some time ago (prior to FF) and Nintendo rejected what the team showed to them.
In an old interview someone from Retro said Nintendo gave them the choice to pick between Metroid and DK.
They said they love Metroid and that they still wanted to work on the series but they had so many ideas left for Tropical Freeze they picked the DK series instead.
Well, for one they absolutely still have tons of talent and a bunch left from the prime days. And it's seeming likely that they were making one game, bur scrapped it in like 2015, and started starfox in 2016.
I just don't see a scenario where Nintendo accepts Retro's late-2018 pitch and says "see you in five years!" Nintendo has already set a lot of money on fire for this project and Metroid isn't known for topping the sales charts.
I agree obviously they aren't forcing any time crunch, but I don't think they want prime 4 going into the mid 2020's.
I do not think it's a good idea that at the same time that bad news are given, try to associate it with a good one.
I think it's better to wait for a Direct.
Make of it what you will, but I've heard a couple of things that conflict with this stuff. One thing I've heard pretty definitively, for example, is that neither a Metroid Prime trilogy nor a Metroid Prime 4 announcement were ever planned for The Game Awards.
Nothing prevents them to make such an announcement on another day.
My only reason to believe this is that Nintendo Software & Technology finished working on Captain Toad 3DS port, and they do mostly ports these days so i hope this next one is MPT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Software_Technology
Let the "bad" news settle, let the realisation that Retro is taking the project cement itself as a positive thing in people's minds, then announce trilogy for everyone to really appreciate how great that news actually is. It's coming in a direct.
Is Metroid Prime Trilogy for Switch done and Nintendo is just sitting on it?