Metroid Prime 4 Development Updates Seemingly Discovered

I've looked up SupermetelDave64 on the matter. I know the YouTubers who get this information. I wonder though if true, MP4 gets the trigger pulled in a direct, or is saved for the next gen Nintendo console and its set as a cross gen title like Breath of the Wild.

@GinMiguel

I really hope the coming direct re-announces Prime 4 while shadow dropping Prime 2 Remake

They can take all the time they need. It's a nearly perfect series thus far. Hope they keep it that way.
...damnit, I forgot Federation Force exists

@Classic603 yusssssssss

So yeah, it's probably going through extensive QA. Typical of Nintendo

@Samalik seems their QA is some of the best in the biz.

Now I'm really wondering what they're about to do.
With the Switch coming to an end of its lifecycle, they should announce this game right now otherwise it's gonna release after the S2 is already announced and people will have moved on at least in their mindset. But the user base couldn't be better for a Metroid game.
If they'd decide to bring it for the S2, they should wait at least another year until there is a user base of at least 10 Mio units as Metroid isn't such a great selling franchise and shouldn't be released in a console's early lifecycle.

One possible scenario could be that they bring it as a S2 launch game, but plan it as a new trilogy, calculating that people will later on keep buying this new one if the others are successful. This would be my dream scenario as it would mean they wouldn't have to care too much about the user base of the S2, it would mean it would be a pretty solid and obviously refined launch game and it would mean that there was already more in the works.

Well...
A MAN CAN DREAM.

@imadeanaccount
But the most desperate for sure are F-Zero fans.

"a game tester and quality assurance developer who claims to have been playing a demo of Metroid Prime 4 for the past 10 months while using the bug-tracking software Jira."

Oh my god! Someone is testing the game as they develop it! Maybe they even have 3D modellers and game designers on staff too!

This is gonna be my first Metroid Prime game.

I want Retro to take their time so they can make the best Metroid Prime sequel. We'll probably see this game on the next hardware successor, but every Direct I hope to see just a little glimpse of the game.

@GinMiguel Nintendo know that gamers will fall over themselves for a Retro-developed Metroid Prime 4. They’d be foolish to make it cross-gen. Nintendo know the value of software exclusives to shift hardware.

@LikelySatan Also forgot Metroid Prime Hunters on DS.

@Classic603 a year after the prime 1 remake would be perfect for that!

@PokemonDMG that one was okay by me, but I get the disappointment.

@valcoholic Mind you, most F-zero fans just want F-Zero GX2

Would definitely be a good plan to have this as a launch title for Switch2.

@Bulborb I would love that. I hope you are right

@IceDomino play the remake what are you doing. Literally rn go play it

@RadioHedgeFund they also are keenly aware that there are a bajillionty Switch owners.

Tbh I'm only now getting into Metroid so I'm hoping this game is still a few years away and they remaster 2-3 first.

@imadeanaccount Uhh, we get new Metroid games every few years, kid. That's hardly "desperate". Now F-Zero, that's another matter...

@IceDomino You really, reeeeeaaaaaly should play MP remastered. It's available right now. No need to wait for MP4.

It's very very very very obvious this is a switch 2 launch game. You won't see it before then. And yes, my Dad owns Nintendo.

i believe Metroid Prime 4 marketing will be directly linked with Nintendo next console, so expect the game anounced on Switch sucessor reveal or a blowout presentation focused on Nintendo next console(dont worry MP4 will still come to Switch, it would be sort of a Twilight Princess/Breath of the Wild situation for Metroid)

This is gonna be my first Metroid Prime game.

@IceDomino Fellow Metroid fan, why would you not play Prime 1 Remastered? Tell us how we can support you in your journey toward éliteness and enlightenment, all through the visor of Samus Aran.

We, the Metroid community, stand ready to embrace you in the warm glow of a invulnerably Varia-suited lava bath. (... a good thing, I promise you)

Rumour aside, this one is never coming to the current Switch. Hopefully it won't be cross gen and fully use some more powerful hardware.

@EVIL-C Am I to understand that this person was trolling the Metroid fans?

Looking forward to Metroid Prime 4 on Switch 2 at launch!

@RadioHedgeFund Considering that Zelda is the bigger franchise, and TP and BOTW were both cross-gen and launch titles, I wouldn't rule it out for Metroid.

1. Nintendo announces MP4 as a launch title for Switch 2
2. Nintendo announces MP2 and 3 Remaster for Switch releasing in Spring and Summer respectively.
3. Nintendo announces that switch 2 is backwards compatible and I can play all 4 on one console.
4. I buy all of it and move to an island where I can be happy forever.

Setting myself up for another fall with this mythical game, but I feel they must be quite far along with it now, especially with this latest ‘news’. My hope is MP2 gets a shadow drop imminently, then MP3 comes at the end of the year with an attached release window for MP4 in 2025- maybe as a cross-gen title or maybe as a Switch 2 exclusive.

This is the same guy who was convinced that the Wii U's successor would be a "full home console" with an AMD APU. To the point where they were railing against people who actually had what turned out to be accurate leaks. Notably Eurogamer/Digital Foundry. IIRC they even put out a video immediately after the Switch reveal trailer where they argued the "real NX" was still coming....

I'm sure Metroid Prime 4 is nearing the end of its development cycle. I'm sure it comes out soon and there's probably a trailer being worked on. But I wouldn't use SMD as a source.....

I don't think MP2 and MP3 remasters are coming anytime soon. Nintendo will be well aware that MP4 sales will be eroded by releasing too much Metroid in quick succession.

As a Metroid fan, obviously you want all the games right away.

As a Nintendo fan... not being funny here, but I played MP1 remaster, I loved it, but I came away from it thinking... hrmmm... how are Retro going to get me on board with MP4 because I am not going to be interested in more of the same.

Just look at the sales decline in the MP series between titles to see why Nintendo would do well to keep the Prime powder dry in the run up to MP4.

Besides... when MP4 launches and we're back to day zero on the development of a new 3d Metroid game... is that not the best time I.e. the next 5 or more years development cycle, to release a MP2 remaster?

I see the same argument amongst Zelda fans. They want WW and TP HD now. I'm here scratching my head... we just got TotK, we're approx 6 years from a new 3D Zelda now... doesn't it make sense for TP and WW to land during those 6 years?!

I really hope they don’t make MP4 cross-gen. We really don’t need to hold them to an announcement from 6 years ago.

Let it go and let this game breathe on new hardware, please. We’ve waited this long and I have no problem it being exclusive to the Switch successor.

No rush, I'm still making my way through the first game. A little aside here but I am thoroughly enjoying my time with Metroid Prime Remastered. I am terrible at both FPS and labyrinthine games, so I really appreciate casual mode and the incoming data hint system.

I'm definitely hoping for a teaser trailer with some gameplay footage at the February direct and I would absolutely welcome a shadow drop of Prime 2 and 3 even if they're not remastered and just polished up a bit with non-motion controls I'll be one happy dude

This Metal Dave isn't that one that lose a bet because he said that Switch would be more powerful than the PS4?

I'm so tired of hearing about this game.

Nintendo Direct Starts...

She's Back!

Metroid Prime

Federation Force 2!

sounds of pitchforks being set alight

"triple AAA co-developer production studio"

Wow, that's nine A's!

@IceDomino and sadly, at the rate they churn out games, maybe your last ☹️

This will be on the next gen system.

It's been 5 years since the announced reboot. Nintendo's barely commented on the project, just stating that it's still in active development and that progress was going well at the Metroid Dread & Metroid Prime 1 remaster announcements. Since that announcement, Zelda TOTK was announced, delayed, and released and we've had 2 new Pokemon generations all within that timespan. There comes a point where the silence becomes laughable, it's time to show receipts.

JIRA shudders I have never worked somewhere that has a good JIRA implementation.

Well guest this game won't be ever ready on Switch, if they want they could just move the project on to the next successor. I don't even think Switch would need it either since Switch still had many good games coming out in its later life from both first and third party devs anyways. Switch is not like the N64, GameCube, Wii, and Wii U where there's a saturation of games near the end of its lifespan, that's why each of those console rely on a swansong title rather than ending on a positive note like the NES and Super NES. A swansong title is a good game that came out on the previous console in its end life but as an active title for the successor as well. We see this with Animal Crossing for N64 and GameCube, Twilight Princess for GameCube and Wii, Rodea for Wii and Wii U, and Breath of the Wild for Wii U and Switch. We don't see this with the NES and Super NES and Super NES and N64 cause both systems still had great software at the end of their lifespan.

@Fiskern I love you

@Manguy888A good plan lol

I think Prime 4 releases day one for Switch 2 and also releases on switch 1. Because it was promised for switch 1 but also to show off the upgrade from switch 1 to switch 2 in hardware. With a docked rez bump and possibly higher quality textures and Anti Aliasing. Kind of a good comparison of "why you should upgrade to switch 2"

@nocdaes im pretty sure prime 2 and 3 remasters are on their way after the first one was quite successful in sales this time around.

Maybe in 12 months we’ll be lucky enough to see the title screen?! 😂

@Arcata that makes sense and hopefully it’ll turn out to be true. I’d love Prime 4 on my shiny new switch 2!

Not much of an "update", though this is through unofficial channels. I'm glad MP4 is still in the works though. In the meantime, I'm overdue to replay the earlier numbered Metroid Prime titles, starting with the remaster I was gifted on Christmas. If rumors are to be believed, the other two titles might be in the remaster pipeline as well. Even if they aren't, I can always replay Metroid Prime Trilogy on my Wii U. Unpopular opinion maybe, but Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is my favorite of the bunch due to the differing environments and other bounty hunters.

If anyone needs a good laugh, then watch Supermetaldave64's rection to the Switch reveal

I think the clear reality is that MP4, whatever it ends up being in the end, will simply not be a Switch game.

@RadioHedgeFund It worked for Breath of the Wild. Nintendo respect the people who bought Wii U's for that game when it was first announced while giving the Switch a tentpole launch game that kicked off its success.

Safe to assume it's been pushed to the next console now. With any luck it's going to be a launch title. Probably be the big first party launch title like BOTW was for Switch.

@CANOEberry Perhaps? It's hard to tell. But them calling Metroid fans desperate; what parallel universe are they living in? That user took the L. 🤦‍♂️

I guarantee this game, if it is cross-gen, will not be the launch game for the Switch's successor. Launch window? Sure. But Metroid Prime is not big enough to sell a system. Remastered only shifted around a million copies!

@RadioHedgeFund I don't know. They did it with Zelda twice and that's an actual system seller whereas Metroid mostly sells to a specific hardcore fan base. It doesn't really sell systems like Zelda does. It would be awesome if it was exclusive to new hardware so it wasn't held back by the Switch of course.

@PikaPhantom They could still launch it with the system alongside a real system seller.

I get the feeling it would be pushed to the next console. We might get a dual release like Breath of the Wild or Twilight Princess.

Honestly at this point I don't think this is coming out on the Switch. With the rumors of the next console being unveiled soon, they'd probably most likely change development to the new one. I can see (and I hope they do), when they do finally announce a release date they could ghost drop the release of the other two primes on the Switch

Most likely will be a launch title for Switch 2 at this rate.

this can be also bad news, 10 months of QA without any announcement is worrisome is almost the same thing that happened when development was under Namco Bandai, which is not hitting the quality standards.

@NIN10DOXD Zelda wasn't a system seller until BOTW, you can create new stuff on old franchises to get the attention of new public. Is actually easier to increase the fanbase of an old known franchise than creating a completely new franchise with huge fanbase.

At this point Metroid Prime 4 will be a launch title for the Nintendo Switch 2.

Wow, you guys didn't do much research? Did you just rip your information straight from SMD64's video?

Next-Gen Dreams don't make trailers, they didn't make the Judas trailer. A quick google will tell you that they made the content for the game which was then featured in the trailer. That doesn't mean they "specialise in trailers"

@huupawel Zelda has ran circles around Metroid in sales. The best selling Metroid games before Dread reached 3 million were Prime and the original which both sold around 2.8 million. The only Zelda game that sold that many copies or fewer was TriForce Heroes and The Minish Cap which are both infamous for being considered commercial bombs even with the latter now being considered a cult classic. Even when Zelda's popularity dwindled for most of the 200s and 2010s it still sold around 4 million almost every time with that being considered a failure compared to Ocarina and Twilight Princess. Metroid has never come close to that kind of success, but Dread could be positive sign of a momentum shift.

Testing phase is a good sign but doesn't tell of release but knowing someone bug testing is good.

@Serpenterror Quick nitpick: Rodea was not a swan song. Not only was it critically panned, but it released SAME day on Wii, Wii U and 3DS in 2015, almost three years into the Wii U’s lifecycle.

@RiasGremory I'm pretty sure they're not. Happy to be proved wrong, but honestly, as a huge Metroid fan myself... how can we seriously believe FOUR Prime games in as many years is going to be anything but an utter disaster?

I guess this is why following Nintendo is so much fun...!

@datamonkey Yea for sure!

I hope they wait for Switch 2, so they can add better motion controls to the system (and game). I don't care if it's the janky sensor bar, I just want Wii-esque motion controls back. 😭

I hope they add more enemies, walking around in a maze in a near empty world has been pretty boring, I’ve never been able to sit all the way through any of them, bring back 2D Metroid!

@stache13 I really hope not, I’d prefer a new Mario

@stevep It could be dual release.

Metroid Prime 4 Ever Delayed