It became the fastest-selling and highest-grossing Metroid game in the UK and has sparked a boost in sales for previous games in the series worldwide. It certainly hasn’t damaged the franchise, Metroid Dread has benefitted from huge sales since it launched last week. Perhaps Nintendo learned from its previous mistake and elected to only announce Metroid Dread when it was virtually finished. When Metroid Dread was announced at E3 2021 many fans were understandably confused about how a different Metroid game could be announced for release later the same year when we still haven’t seen a lick of Prime 4. This allowed Nintendo to take its time to make the game without any pressure. It was only barely RUMORED from a magazine unrelated to Nintendo itself, and nothing else. The project was taken away from Bandai Namco Studios, the original developer, and given to Retro Studios, who developed the original Metroid Prime games. However between Prime 4 and Dread, there was a key difference: Dread was NEVER properly announced to the public in the first place, until a few months before the release in 2021. 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. In 2018, then Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime even said that the game was “well into development” and yet, still nothing. However, it was announced with just a logo, no gameplay or trailer and since then we still haven’t received either. Metroid Prime 4 was an incredibly hyped announcement back in 2017 when it was revealed at E3. However, it could also suggest that these titles are further out than the games with fixed dates or launch windows, which would make them likely to release in late 2022 or 2023 at the earliest. Nintendo Is Not Ready to Reveal Metroid Prime 4 Release Window, Promises Game Is 'Well in Development' By Chris Compendio Published Reggie Fils-Aime of Nintendo of America assured that. What happened to Metroid Prime 4? It isn’t often that Nintendo announces games that take this long to come out. I spoke with Metroid Prime series producer Kensuke Tanabe back in 2015 about his ideas for a fourth Metroid Prime game - including which story arcs and characters from the original trilogy might crop up again, and which he now considered concluded.Metroid Prime 4 was announced all the way back in 2017, since then Metroid Dread was announced and released. Retro Studios, meanwhile, has been putting together an unannounced Star Fox racing game - the status of which is unclear. That leaves a massive gap in the Switch’s AAA line-up. But reports backed up by Eurogamer sources confirmed a team at Bandai Namco were heading development. While this glimmer of hope will have calmed the fears of many a Metroid fan, it does mean that a title which was expected to be launching next year at the earliest will now surely be coming in 2022, or perhaps later. Nintendo never officially confirmed its development partner for the project, other than stating it was working with a new team on the game which was not Retro Studios. "However, we will continue developing the game so that when it is completed, it will stand shoulder to shoulder with past Metroid Prime titles." It will be a long road until the next time we will be able to update you on the development progress, and development time will be extensive. ![]() "I'd like to extend my deepest, heart-felt apologies to everyone that the launch will be delayed. "We strongly recognise that this delay will come as a disappointment to the many fans who have been looking forward to the launch of Metroid Prime 4. "This change will essentially mean restarting development from the beginning, so the completion of the game will be delayed from our initial internal plan. "We did not make this decision lightly," Takahashi continued. "We have decided to re-examine the development structure itself and change it." "The current development status is very challenged, and we had to make a difficult decision as a development team," Takahashi said in a video statement, embedded below. In a statement sure to stun fans expecting a very different kind of developer update - or even a release date - Nintendo exec Shinya Takahashi today said the company had taken the rare decision to restart the game as it had "not reached the standard we seek in a sequel to the Metroid Prime series". Nintendo has also switched development teams, with the original Metroid Prime trilogy developer Retro Studios pulled in to take charge, led by the trilogy's producer Kensuke Tanabe. The project, announced via a logo back during Nintendo's E3 presentation in June 2017, will now be restarted from scratch, significantly delaying its release. ![]() Nintendo's highly anticipated Metroid Prime 4 has been rebooted.
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