Nintendo Debuts Two Metroid Prime 4 Ads As Eight-Year Wait Nears Its End

Prime Hunters doesn't count? Or was that before #3?

I want to know what the original plan for Prime 4 was ...

Despite being cross-platform, this game looks like a next-gen visual experience. I do wish Nintendo marketed this as their "Breath of the Wild" showcaser for Switch 2, but it's been under-billed a little in its marketing. It's also the first true mature AAA new first party game for the platform (a lot of adjectives, but trust me it makes sense when you think about it), which the Switch 2 has seriously lacked since launch.

@Olliemar28

It's early/late, I've been up all night. I honestly couldn't remember and also couldn't bother looking it up... LoL

I hope that "backseat" character isn't too relevant, thats probably the most jarring decision I seen for a series like Metroid.

@iLikeUrAttitude

The very, very little I've seen... ( a .gif) is giving me Other M vibes

@Spider-Kev
The funniest thing I read was a thread of comments predicting all the types of jokes the guy might say.

@Axecon
Tomb raider and Sw outlaws are mature I think.
I know older games for switch 2 but SW outlaws runs incredibly well.

Day one for me, have played all the other MP and the original is still the best MP 1 for me so far.

8 years and no Collectors Edition!
Lazy Nintendo

@iLikeUrAttitude @Spider-Kev "Samus just moved *****... with her FREAKING MIND!!" - Marvel McChucklemeister

@OldGamer999 Star Wars Outlaws & Tomb Raider aren't 1st party or new games though. You've also got Cyberpunk and Hitman and several other 3rd party mature AAA titles but those are also older releases.

@Axecon Outlaws is fairly new. Nintendo doesn't really do "mature" games so "first" isn't really an award I'd give this since you'll be waiting a very long time for "second".

Can't believe im gonna have to mute NPC volume and turn off subtitles but still have to escort and protect this babbling piece of useless ***** for the sake of appealing to a wider audience that don't care for metroid games.

Metroido Primo Beyondo…
It’s almost here!

@Spider-Kev @Olliemar28 Metroid Prime Federation Force ….. but we don’t talk about that one

@Freek I find this a little odd too. Collectors Editions seem to have taken a back seat as of late. I've got a ton from 3DS, Wii U and and earlier in the Switch's life, but now they're few and far between. Even TOTK didn't have one.

@AhabSpampurse
Yeah, I love a good Collector Edition and like you said, sadly they seem to be low on Nintendo's to do list.

@Axecon
SWO is new ish for sure.
I can’t see Nintendo making many mature games.
And third party support for switch 2 seems to going ok.
Will be very interesting to see how AC Shadows performs on switch 2 next month.

I keep thinking this is still ages away but it's not... It's less than two weeks away and I'm away on holiday next week so the wait is going to feel even less.
My mind can't even comprehend this realisation. I'm going to go eat a curry-dipped apple and sing Copacabana from my front porch

After reading about the myles character, this went from a must have, to a wait until I know how much and many of these types of characters are in it. Out of all the franchises to add marvel humour and they go for metroid..... the fact that this has been a consideration tells me, that they forgot what metroid means to many of us. I hope I'm wrong.......

I can't believe this game is finally coming out honestly!

Already got my Samus and Samus & Vi-o-la Amiibos. Just waiting for the game and the other Amiibo. Can't wait for December 4th!

@Axecon It’s strange. I wasn’t excited about this until last week. Now looking at these ads, it looks like it should be awesome. Nintendo really screwed up the marketing for this.

Hopefully it will be a massive success so we can have many more Metroid (Prime) games.

@Axecon Didn't you forget about Mariokart world and DK Bananza for the AAA first party?

Also it's cross gen, not cross platform. This is still a Nintendo exclusive.

@Yoshi3
Excited!!
But you misspelled “Praimu” 😉

Can’t wait for it and nothing I’ve seen so far has dampened my hype. More NPCs etc. isn’t really that surprising when they already headed in that direction with Prime 3. Didn’t bother me then and it doesn’t bother me here. Even Miles’ dialogue isn’t offensive to me; seems well acted and I’ve seen much worse writing.

Obviously I hope there’ll still be plenty of moments where you are left to your own devices but from everything I’ve seen that appears to be the case. Ultimately I don’t really mind if the 2D entries going forwards are the ones that stay truest to the formula while the 3D games experiment.

@Teksette It's actually "Metoroido Puraimu", if you really want to get pedantic. There's no syllabarys for two-consonant combos like "tr" or "pr" in Japanese.

@AhabSpampurse Here in Europe TotK did get a special edition that cost double the price of the game and included a set of pins and a metal poster. Nothing to write home about.

Bayonetta 3 also got a beautiful one with an artbook and a special frame collecting all three game boxes. Still available on the Nintendo store sadly...

Well it’s too late for prime 2 and 3 now. Missed opportunity. Even if they released them on switch virtual console game cube emulator who is going to play once prime 4 drops?

Be perfectly ok if they just made 2D Metroid games instead.

My biggest worry is that they’re calling this game Metroid Prime 4 but 4 isn’t prime.

It’s square.

They should have called it Metroid Square 4 or Metroid Prime 5.

I just can’t get over how someone with a suit that lets them run at 80mph, roll up into a ball and fly through the air like sonic on special sauce would need a motorbike? Why?!

@HingryHuppo hey man, even Kriss Akabusi needs to kick back in a Fiat Uno from time to time. I’m outdoorsy but I’d take the anime bike if it was just collecting dust in some lightning tower.

Instead of the industry standard "start to crate" metric, Metroid Prime 4 will be rated instead on "start to he's-right-behind-me-isn't-he?"

@Spider-Kev the same. It was scrapped only because bandai were so incompetent they split up the development across different studios in different countries with little communication between teams

@Polvasti
Puraimu not Praimu, of course, you’re right.
プライム

I hope I didn’t seem proper or pedantic - I was just having fun with “Engrish!” 😉

@AhabSpampurse totk did have one

@B3RTAY Kris Akabusi drives a Suzuki… also looks kind of creepy when his suit explodes to reveal his bra and thong.

@Elock No

The music in the top trailer is very Spaghetti Western like. I love it!

I am ready to be Samus in a Space Western riding across the desert. 😊❤️

LFG! This looks SOOOO Good. Can't wait till Dec 4th!

I still want my Nintendo Space Hunters team-up game!
Metroid/Samus + F-ZERO + Star Fox!

@Spider-Kev - You get to be Myles MacKenzie every other biome

So pumped.

Goign to be a fun day. Taking off at 12 to play until about 5ish and then go see Kill Bill The Whole Bloody Affair in 7mm at my local IMAX.

@HingryHuppo Go try to run and roll in a desert then get back to us.

@Yalloo @Novuscourvous you're both right, TOTK did have one, and I actually own it. I'm clearly an idiot with more money than intelligence!

And yeah, that Bayo 3 set is gorgeous @Yalloo; I've got that one too!

@Rhaoulos MK World and DK Bananza are first party AAA but they're not "mature" games. I'm talking about your Zeldas, Metroids, Xenoblades, and Fire Emblems aimed for an older audience.

@SpaceboyScreams When I mean "mature", I really mean any game that's aimed for a slightly older audience, so basically your Zeldas, Metroids, Xenoblades, Fire Emblems, etc. And FE is on the way next year 2026. Nintendo is primarily known for family-friendly all-age gaming but they do address the older crowd too.

@Axecon We got a new Switch 2 Zelda game just two weeks ago, and I don't think Age of Imprisonment is aimed for any younger audience than Prime 4.

I keep seeing the argument that a character like Myles was added to give it wider appeal, but no reasoning for why he’s appealing. Do we really think people are drawn in by an annoying nerd who looks like McLovin prattling at them? That’s going to drive sales, really? I would understand the argument if it was for more anime characters in bodysuits and dating elements, that’s what would actually court more players.

Metroid arguably has some sales momentum after Dread sold the most in the series, but that game had MUCH better marketing imo. It was front and centre in the Switch OLED launch.

@HingryHuppo Perhaps using the Speed Booster for very long periods of time would tire her out? I wondered why we wouldn't be able to just run across the entire desert like the Flash, but I think the motorcycle is really cool.

@Olliemar28
I couldn't agree more, this style of writing was good when it was in short bursts and didn't change the tone of the entire piece of media I was consuming.
It's why I'm torn on Guardians of the Galaxy - on one hand it's one of my favorite movies, but it also started the trend of the MCU shoving jokes down everyones throats.

I also really confused with why they thought adding this character was a good idea. I thought people were very vocal that they DIDN'T like having theirr hand held in the form of a character like Atreus from God of War.
This is probably the type of game where it makes the LEAST sense to add that kind of trope.

Was marketing terrified of showing the mouse being used to look and aim around quickly or what?

Im not big into the Prime games although I love the other Metroid titles. With that, I really hope this side-kick gets the boot early in the game for (most) fans' sake. I began watching the trailer thinking "he cant be that bad, can he?" and lo and behold, he was. Odd choice to include and im petty enough that I wouldn't buy a game with something/someone that grating throughout. Fingers crossed for ya'all

I really think that the source of the constant negativity of, not just this game, but so much else recently are factors outside of the control of devs. Life is overwhelming for so many people these days, and there is this underlying level of DREAD (not the awesome Metroid kind) that permeates everything we do. People surround themselves with that negativity like its some sort of shield, but it only makes the things you experience as unsatisfying as you expect them to be.

I know I feel it, at least. I replayed Breath of the Wild and found myself irritated and frustrated with a game I absolutely ADORED 8 years ago.

I'm not sure the last time I actually enthusiastically LOVED a game. I've liked many games I've played, but I just don't feel the same unbridled enthusiasm for them that I used to.

My guess is their are many others who have had similar experiences over the past few years because of LIFE getting in the way of our enjoyment of things.

@SpaceboyScreams Make me a power suit and I will.

@Hawkes142 I hope I like it and it’s not going to stop me from playing. She’s already got a spaceship that would be great to fly around in and failing that, I’m not against a jet pack or something. I would say that nobody likes change, but clearly from the comments here, that’s not true if the change is a cool manga motorbike.

I do wish they’d make her smoke like Duke Nukem or Solid Snake. Maybe a pipe. Now that would make her look cool.

If you guys didn't realize, that was Samus's Japanese voice actor narrating the commercial and speaking from her own perspective. I would be interested in an English version of the commercial, though they probably won't let her speak again after western audiences hated Other M

@iLikeUrAttitude hes definetly going to say the ball joke. I know you can shut off NPC voices in the options menu, just hoping I can do the same for the subtitles. Positive him and the presence of the others is going really hurt the game for me, also the "collect the green crystals for upgrades, empty looking desert areas." Hoping the rest of the game shines thru despite that.

Long-term FPS mouse-mode looks like it would be hell on a hand. :/

@iLikeUrAttitude funniest thing I've seen all week

8 years. That’s 0.57 years per letter of Myles MacKenzie’s name. Or 1.75 letters per year.

So excited for this one! Everything I’ve seen so far has made me very happy! People and their nitpicking be damned!

Even Myles cannot dampen my Prime 4 hype!

@iLikeUrAttitude I'd take it a step further and say this began all the way back with the very first MCU film in 2008, Iron Man. Robert Downey Jr is a charismatic titan and was instrumental in catapulting the snarky one-liner into the cultural zeitgeist. IMO the style peaked during the first Avengers film in 2012 (Guardians of the Galaxy was in 2014).

But yes, Chris Pratt is another charismatic tour de force who extended the writing style's relevance for many more years.

Switch 2 29gb download.

@hcfwesker Seriously! I don't even want to buy the game now that we know that idiot Jar Jar Binks loser is in it!

PS: I sent you a little "gift" on Twitter.

Nintendo continues to fail. They remake prime 1 so you can easily play it then they ignore 2 and 3. What's the point of buying 1 if I have to track the other 2 on old hardware. Might as well play them all that way and save money. Now we have an idiot companion ruining he 4th game. I guess Nintendo is trying to compete with Ubisoft and EA for the idiot crown.

I'm officially now in the "can't wait" category. The addition of the Federation Force characters looks interesting, and I'm more curious about their integration than recoiling into instinct rage because of some whiny person on YouTube (not from NL) that isn't getting exactly as he expected from the preview he got to play. Any fan of the Metroid Prime series should be open minded about this fourth game in the series and trustful of Nintendo to deliver. They rarely, if ever, fail us.

@Novuscourvous

Cite? I don't mean that sarcastically, I am sincerely interested in the backstory of the original Prime 4 development, and haven't heard this particular story.

@Spider-Kev

I've fantasized about a game called "Nintendo SPACE!" for a while, which is basically just that. I envision it as being a side scrolling beat em up as its basis mechanical chassis, though it'd have plenty of mini-games and "gimmick levels" to represent different aspects of the characters.

These are great ads tbh. Wondering why we don’t have English versions yet.

@metaphysician
I'm not sure what type of game it'd be like ... But Samus, Fox and Cap Falcon would all be Bounty Hunters going around and finding bad guys and bringing them back Alive or Dead.

A mix between Star Wars Bounty Hunter and some GTA quests.

Whether that means open worlds/segments or linear worlds /segments, I'm not sure.

@Freek nah, they always treat Metroid like crud because it's not mainstream enough. By that i mean maybe people who play Nintendo aren't going for Metroid before Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon. Meanwhile recent games in the series have sold well because fans want Metroid to be a mainstay just like the others. But Nintendo only ever goes back to Metroid once in a while. There's more people familiar with the series through Smash than the actual games. I LOVE Metroid, but I also know it's not as well known. No idea how well it does in Japan.

@Polvasti but the first 3 Metroid Prime games were made in Texas.

@swoose we didn't see him in other trailers so i imagine he's just there for the opening chunk of the game as a tutorial/escort mission thing. Maybe he gets killed down the road and you're on your own.

Am I seeing this correctly? Does the Switch 2 box say the game inside is the Switch 1 game plus an upgrade code? If so, I think you can state that there is not truly a physical Switch 2 version.

@Pillowpants May the 4th be with you… sorry I mean may December the 4th be with you.

Been playing through Prime 1 on the GameCube recently and I’m actually blown away by how fun it is. Not sure what I was expecting but it’s surpassed whatever it was ☺️

@datamonkey Cheers, matey! Live long and prosper! 🖖

@timp29 I'd pick up a copy of MP3 for sure if they remaster it. I never had a Wii, so I've only ever played it emulated (and reconfigured for keyboard mouse controls, which was cool). I loved it, and I'd really like to try playing it with motion controls!

I think if MP4 is a success, it might get more people interested in playing 1-3.

Hopefully this tonal shift with Marine Mackenzie is designed to make the series more appealing to Japanese gamers. And hopefully it works. Metroid's neglect over there makes me wonder how games like Mass Effect, Doom, and Dead Space do over there. They like robots, but maybe they don't like human protagonists dressed as robots.