A somewhat bitter pill for fans who already have waited for two years. Retro Studios is starting from scratch and this means that it’ll take several years until Metroid Prime 4 will see the light of day.
#Metroid prime 4 restart development update
Even though the recent update left many feeling disappointed, bringing Retro Studios on board is a very good thing. As the original creators of the Metroid Prime trilogy, this can be seen as a good thing but there’s a catch. Metroid Prime 4 is now being developed by Retro Studios, which is a good thing. Development on the project will restart under Retro Studios, the US developers responsible for the original Metroid Prime trilogy. None other than Retro Studios, the spiritual successor studio of legendary Rare, is now responsible for Metroid Prime 4. In a YouTube video posted to all of Nintendo’s social media, Senior Managing Executive Officer Shinya Takahashi has announced that all current development on Metroid Prime 4 will be scrapped. The silver lining with today’s news at least is that Metroid is returning to its roots at Nintendo. Nintendo Senior Managing Executive Officer Shinya Takahashi explained the difficult decision to restart development with Bandai Namco’s game “not reaching the standards they seek for a Metroid Prime sequel”. Not really a good omen and now all pessimists have been proven right as Nintendo pulled the plug. The first alarm bells started ringing for Metroid fans when news broke out last year that Metroid Prime 4 wasn’t being developed in-house by Nintendo and instead was given to Bandai Namco. Nintendo recently announced that the release of Metroid Prime 4 would have to be delayed, as the company has decided to restart development on the title, with Retro Studios involvement, due to it not meeting quality standards. It’s true that several Metroid games came out afterwards, but they were either remakes of older titles or outsourced games that didn’t resonate well with Nintendo fans. Many Metroid fans consider the last true Metroid game 2007’s Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. That’s pretty understandable as Nintendo has been anything but proficient at utilizing the iconic franchise in the past decade! That was still more than enough for Metroid-starved fans to jump in excitement. There wasn’t much to show though with the entire announcement consisting of a mere logo. It has been a long two years when Nintendo unveiled Metroid Prime 4 to the masses.
Calling it an update is kind of underselling the news however, as Big N announced to scratch all progress made so far and restart the entire development of the game with a new developer at the helm. Retro Studios tapped to restart Metroid Prime 4 development Nintendo made the difficult announcement this morning that Metroid Prime 4 development has been restarted. Nintendo shared a development update video for the highly anticipated new entry Metroid Prime 4. Bad news for gamers on Nintendo consoles and especially for fans of Metroid.
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