Game Informer senior editor Imran Khan has shared a series of insights, albeit unconfirmed, into the development of
Metroid Prime 4 and a rumored
Metroid Prime Trilogy for Switch.
“Huh, I guess that explains where
Metroid Prime Trilogy disappeared to,” Khan said in a
tweet reacting to news of
Metroid Prime 4‘s restarted development. He
continued, “It’s been long done. Initial announcement was supposed to be last month [in December].”
As for why we have still yet to hear about it, Khan
said, “Nintendo sits on a lot of games for a long time until they feel like marketing it.
New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe was on the eShop servers like a year ago.”
Regarding
Metroid Prime 4, Khan
said, “Retro working on
Metroid Prime 4 is interesting. There’s not a lot of old
Metroid Prime people there anymore, so the experience is all just in the name. It’s a good PR move, but I wonder what happened with the old developer (which was Bandai Namco Studios) to cause them to overturn the table.” He
continued, “The last I heard of the game was around September when people told me it was proceeding fine. [Nintendo of America president and COO] Reggie [Fils-Aime] even said the same in December, when clearly it must have been boiling over.”
According to Khan,
Metroid Prime 4 was being developed by a “patched-together team across different countries. Maybe parts of it were working fine, but other parts weren’t.”
Later, he
added (
2), “Hearing that the big problem with
Metroid Prime 4 development was Nintendo’s experimental ad-hoc development process; it was being made in parts in different countries. Some studios were trucking along saying it was going smoothly while it was on fire elsewhere. Internal thinking was that it needs to be all under one roof to right the ship. Interestingly, Retro made the pitch for their involvement and put together a demo that Nintendo liked.”
On ResetEra, Khan also
mentioned, “There’s more
Metroid stuff besides
Metroid Prime 4 in development and I would imagine the
Metroid Prime 4 delay adjusts their schedule a bit.”
Read more at
https://gematsu.com/2019/01/metroid...estarted-at-retro-studios#bmxZEYEh8BPMeHrx.99
Gerüchte natürlich, aber schon interessant zu lesen. Und mit seinem Retro Studios Kommentar hat er natürlich auch recht. Ein Großteil der Leute die für Prime verantwortlich waren, sind ja längst nicht mehr im Unternehmen. Und von Retro selber kam auch auch schon länger nichts mehr. Keiner weiß so wirklich, was die noch so drauf haben. Ist ungefähr so, als würde man sich freuen das Rare an einem neuen Banjo sitzt. Kann geil werden, kann aber auch das nächste Nuts & Bolts bei rumkommen