Nintendo Fixes Its Metroid Prime 4 Blunder, And It's No Longer "Out Now"

Hum .. Hyrule Warriors was advertised coming this winter ... which technically starts December 21st ... Love to have it earlier though ...

Mind the gaff!

As soon as they said it was “out now” I went out and bought a copy. I woke up this morning, and it was gone! I guess this explains it.

Not just that, the Nintendo Police busted through my door and forcefully took my copy back as well.

Guess the game was shipped but Dark Samus realized she's not in the game and demanded a recall to include her.

See? What did I say? Just a mistake.

So, you're telling the game I bought on EBay was a fraud?! Well.... FML

Watch it get updated to 2026. 😉

It’s 2025 now so it’s so strange they can’t advertise with a useful date

from "out now" to "2025," just so it's crystal clear that the game is not out yet...

well done.

Actually Nintendo today app is adding Metroid terms with every letters of the alphabet. Today we are at “c”. My guess is after “z” we might get a release date!

Someone's going to be "Open to work" on LinkedIn for sending out the wrong artwork...

I need a release date !

I hope that when Nintendo announces the release date, they'll also shadow drop Metroid Prime 2 and 3 Remastered. Come on, make my dream come true!

Too late. I've already bought 11 copies, plus I even managed to snag the Nintendo Switch 3 Edition, which boasts 1,000,000fps and 1,000,000p resolution, and comes on a 1,000,000TB cartridge.

The textures are still mid tho, NGL.

They still make mistake that means whoever made that mistake in the first place is a human and not AI.

I'm starting to suspect they're holding back release dates mostly so that they can reveal them in the Nintendo Today app. Hopefully they'll still save most game announcements for Nintendo Directs. (In other words, hopefully Splatoon Raiders is an anomaly.)

Glad I picked this up while it was on sale. It's reeeally good.
(/jk for those that need it.)

Wasn't this game announced in 2017? Surely it must have been out for a while now?

I wonder why they had an 'out now' version of the poster done up already when they haven't even set a date. And it looks identical to the correct one; I thought they would change up the design for the final ad, even if only a little.

Umm, the "Out Now" version was just a fake photoshop by some immature attention seeker. You could see the brush marks where he erased the regular version. Nintendo didnt "fix" anything, the above poster has always been there. I suspect NintendoLife know this, but these days, it's all about "engagement", so let's report on fake news.

I'm going to post an exclamation point after I comment on every single solitary article that Nintendo Life publishes, just to be special!

@browneyes I’ve done a bit of poking around, and my strong impression is that while the ‘OUT NOW’ text bubble is not part of the original poster design itself, it seems to have been stuck on physically rather than digitally (i.e. via Photoshop, etc.)

If it were just a single Reddit post I’d be suspicious (and indeed was), even though it’s taken from multiple angles.

To be honest, it kinda looks a bit fake in all of them. The thing that swung me around is that the fact that it was independently verified by VGC who took some pics of their own.

To me, the above snap is the most important. You can just about make out the Metroid poster in the background, but what’s noteworthy is that the same ‘OUT NOW’ sticker has been also applied to the Mario Kart poster, cutting off Cheep Cheep’s beautiful blonde Mohawk and obscuring poor Daisy almost entirely.

It seems that the base posters are stuck up, and then afterwards they have the ‘OUT NOW’ stickers applied to them. The Metroid poster seems to have always had ‘2025’ underneath as part of the original poster design. Maybe a clueless billboard technician saw it, thought “2025? That’s NOW!” and prematurely covered it with the ‘OUT NOW’ sticker. Or maybe their boss told them to. Or someone else. I don’t know.

Anyway, long story short: I feel quite confident that the ‘OUT NOW’ stickers were applied physically, not digitally, and that there’s not foul play at work here. Just, as @ParsnipHero perfectly puts it, a gaff that wasn’t minded!

@TheBigK If my attempts at sleuthing are correct, the current ‘2025’ poster is the original and the ‘OUT NOW’ sticker was just pasted erroneously on top (which is why it looks a bit weird, doesn’t fully cover the ‘2025’ text box, and also partially covers Samus’ hand).

To fix it, all they (presumably) had to do was peel off the ‘OUT NOW’ sticker while praying to not damage the poster underneath. And it seems like they did a very good job!

@Olliemar28 I don’t think the poster has been ‘swapped out’ so much as had its sticker removed! You can see the original text box where the date should be underneath the ‘OUT NOW’ sticker.

@WiltonRoots I think it’s the poster-paster whose job is on the line here!

Whether it’s the Bakerloo, the Central, or the Victoria line I don’t know. Oxford Circus is served by all three.

But where's Metroid Prime Trilogy 4K?

Hoping this is released before Xmas, this year. Not that I mind the holiday season (also my birthday month) but it would be nice to play it before year’s end. An October or November release would be nice. Also- I’m in agreement with others here- we need Prime 2 and 3 Remasters to shadowdrop as well to satiate our ravenous hunger for Beyond.