![]() ![]() I doubt it's canceled, but Nintendo does do this stuff from time to time, barely show a game, then it disappears for a few years with complete silence, then boom, blowout and details and release. Nintendo should just throw money at it anyway.Īnyway, in regards to Metroid Prime: the thing got rebooted and could probably be a cross platform game or exclusive for their next gen system. But the fact that arcade racers beyond indie games are pretty much dead, and that F-Zero's biggest rival(Wipeout) has been shelved and it's studio shuttered doesn't seem to be a factor to people. ![]() ![]() People complained for years that Nintendo was ignoring F-Zero, but people conveniently ignored the declining sales of that series, and Nintendo even tried reviving it by asking a Western studio, which declined. Probably because Nintendo isn't as big as people seem to think it is, and they would rather allocate resources to games/franchises that can actually sell.īut it is curious though, Nintendo do actually create new franchises or at least try to reanimate those dead franchises every once in a while, but they mostly get ignored. Like they seriously want them to drop money on these dead in the water franchises that will somehow miraculously stop being a flop and sell gangbusters if they just get a new fresh coat of paint, and if they don't, well obviously that's Nintendo's doing it justice or or the public's fault for not recognising greatness. This is what's so bizarre about what people expect from Nintendo. I'd say something like Dead Space, Bioshock or Lost Planet would have worked with the Prime formula.Ĭlick to expand.They have joint ownership of Eternal Darkness and the other owner tried to do a Kickstarter, TWICE, and failed. Prime (and 3D Marios) are the games I miss from them, so I hardly missed much over a span of many years, and it is certainly no tragedy to ignore their entire gen.īut other people seem to like, really love, their output and so they feel zero pressure to do more, invest their earnings into growth. Acceptable for one team within a studio family, but if the entire company runs so slow without width it's certainly not enough for me. Nintendo has way too few teams and a work ethic like Polyphony. Their games look okay for a handheld, sure, but barely better than upscaled PS360 games and single studios pumped out 3 or more games in that era with more experimentation required and finding the current design philosophies. With such tech they should have pumped out 2 or 3 games of their hit franchises each, and at least one of the lesser loved ones, and maybe return to something like Eternal Darkness or try again a shooter- with a hired third party. But it also leaves us wondering whether this is meant to be the start of a big year for the franchise or simply an appeasement as the publisher moves on to other things as the six-year-old Switch enters its twilight years? All we can do is what we’ve been doing: wait and see.Considering how outdated their tech is, how oldschool their game worlds are, their output is despite being good sorta pityful. Metroid Prime Remastered is certainly good news, and Nintendo fans are rightfully elated. ![]() Metroid Dread, a new 2D installment not tied to the Prime series, released in 2021, but that was put together by MercurySteam, the talented developers behind Metroid II remake Samus Returns. There’s no doubt Metroid Prime 4 was affected by this global crisis. The Covid-19 pandemic shut down virtually every office on the planet, forcing game studios to work remotely and pushing back release dates. With safer hands working on the project, it seemed like Metroid Prime 4 was finally on track, but that’s become increasingly harder to tell when we’ve not heard anything new about the project since 2019. Originally, development was delegated to Bandai Namco Studios, who worked on the title until at least 2019, when Nintendo revealed that the project had restarted in-house, with Retro Studios back at the helm of the series it first spearheaded in 2002. Years of silence and at least one false start in development later and Nintendo still hasn’t delivered the game. The first entry since Metroid Prime 3: Corruption wrapped the original trilogy in 2007, part four had been a long time coming and couldn’t get here soon enough. At last, we’d get a continuation of the GameCube series that introduced an entire generation of gamers to Samus Aran and her dangerous sci-fi world. Nintendo brought down the house during its E3 2017 Direct presentation with the announcement that Metroid Prime 4 was on the way. ![]()
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