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Could Metroid Prime 4 finally be a space-faring, ship-steering, open world adventure that so nearly came to be all those years ago?

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And given the ambitious ideas the studio had for the series long ago, it would make sense to see the studio go back down that path again.

It’s a relief to see Metroid Prime 4 back at the series original home – it’s one way to ensure continuity through the series across multiple console generations. If the original vision for Metroid Prime 4 wasn’t working out, could Nintendo have been passing the reins back to Retro Studios to work on its shelved, ambitious plans from yesteryear? The Nintendo Switch is still not a powerhouse console in the way the PS5 or Xbox Series X is, but as evidenced by the likes of Breath of the Wild, is more than capable enough of large open world-scale games. Thanks for your support By providing links to other sites, does not. Metroid Prime 4 had originally been in the works at Bandai Namco Studios, but a troubled development saw it transfer to the series’ original home at Retro Studios. As an Amazon Associate, CAG earns from qualifying purchases. 'We're still very, very proud of Prime 3, it turned out to be a fantastic game, but I would be very interested to see what the response would be, especially the fan community, to the expanded ship and the non-linear experience that we were touching upon.”Īnalysis: Could Metroid Prime 4 go open world? 'We may have fallen short of our goals with Prime 3 in not being able to expand the formula a bit,' Walker said. Metroid Prime 3, while still a solid game, is perhaps the least fondly remembered of the original Prime trilogy. 'We were a little concerned, to be blunt, and then they rolled out the Wii Remote, and kind of in unison the team went, 'Ah! Ok.''

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'We knew what the Xbox 360 was going to have, knew what the PS3 was going to have and the initial specs we were looking at were not competitive from a hardware and memory standpoint. However, these ambitions were built around hopeful expectations of what Nintendo’s next console at the time, the Wii, would be capable of, based on what Walker and his team already knew about the then-state-of-the-art competition, the Xbox 360 and PS3.