>still no exact launch date
Are they saving this for Christmas? They really expect prime of all things to become a holiday best seller now???

Dev hell

>>714742557 (OP)
I think Nintendo understands that this isn't a system mover, and MP4 exists only as a bone to throw to longtime fans pushing 40, who still haven't learned how to break out of adolescence. It will come and go, and big N will continue to grind out profit with Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon.

Sex with balls

They'll announce it after everyone has already bought Donkey Kong.

shadow drop

>>714745914
You're completely correct, but I can't tell if you like Nintendo or not.

September, nothing else releases on september.

>>714742557 (OP)
I'm very much expecting Air Riders to be the holiday game. Whether that means Prime 4 will be earlier or delayed to next year, I have no idea. Obviously, I'd really like it to be earlier, but I'm also a realist, especially since their August is a bit fuller than normal with Drag x Drive and the Forgotten Land port

>>714745914
/thread
As someone pushing 40 who loved the trilogy, even I can't understand why this ever became a project. The original trilogy cleanly wrapped itself up, and was so long ago...it's weird that they didn't finish remaking the trilogy for new players first. I guess the Prime1 remake really was just a proof of concept they decided to sell.

>>714750247
Maybe whoever was making Prime 4 before Retro was also porting the trilogy, maybe they weren't, we'll never know

Sept for MP4
Oct for Z-A
Nov for Splatoon Raiders
Dec for Kirby Air Riders

>>714751476
Yes, we'd all like that to happen. I'm sure quite a few of us would also like a Direct fairly soon where they announce that slate, but I don't have much faith in Nintendo's marketing team to do more than the bare minimum right now

>>714750726
I get the impression that after the disaster of whatever the previous version was that they scrapped, they had the new team "warm up" remaking tallon overworld or something to prove it wouldn't be a second waste, and Nintendo realized that it wouldn't be that much work to just redo the remaining assets.

>>714752038
It was being made by a branch of Bamco that has literally only ever developed a Taiko Drum Masters VR game and assisted on AC7, SC6, and Splatoon 3.

>>714752208
Yes, we know that, then they got Retro back on it, that's who he meant by "new team", because of all the new hires they had to do

>>714749372
prime4 is likely november.
splatoon raiders could be the september game.

>>714752347
Call me cynical, but seeing as though I'm looking more forward to Prime 4 than Raiders, I wouldn't be surprised

>>714752347
It's more likely that Splatoon Raiders is early 2026 than september

>>714753380
Well we don't have a year yet, but they also tend to announce games sooner to release than they used to (mainly because of Prime 4), sooooooooo

>>714752347
Pokemon is November
Prime 4 will be October

>>714753798
>Pokemon is November
Does he know?

What else is there? mario team banked on making dk a heafliner only to have it fall in their faces. Pokemon is like its own audience.

>>714757706
Speak English or die

>>714748261
>shadow drop a game announced 500 times over the past 8 years

>>714750247
3 ended with a sylux cliffhanger. Also metroid games generate critical acclaim and rennoun. Maybe you could argue that matters less now but remember every time you see a top 100s list there is a metroid prime game on there and its free marketing for nintendo. Whereas series that sell a ton of titles like fire emblem will probably never get a single entry on one of thoses lists.

>>714752347
No way nintendo is dumb enough to release it in the most competative month.

>>714758321
meant headliner obviously

>>714758720
> sylux cliffhanger
It was literally just his ship making a cameo for the 100% reward. He isn't mentioned by name or even shown. He has nothing to do with the plot of any game in the trilogy. The trilogy was completely 100% wrapped up. It's novel that they're going to try and build off that, but let's be honest even the boomer metroid fans don't know anything about this one-off character from the DS game.
No idea what top 100 lists have to do with anything.

>>714750247
We'll see. We aren't paid to think about the potential for new adventures all day so it's not a stretch to imagine someone has thought of stuff we have not. That's on top of the randomness of eureka moments.
>first-person Metroid
Also just makes sense that fans would want more of that and people handling Metroid would see more potential there. However, did it need to be called Prime 4? Probably not.
Could've even just ditched the 4 and it'd still be a better situation than "new entry uses the original name and nothing more". Guess someone in marketing figured tacking on Prime or Prime 4 would help sales.
Aside from that, there's plenty of potential for more first-person Metroid and while this one likely won't up the ante too extremely, it will be a good intro that will allow them to make new entries with more immersive features going forward if they so desire.

>>714742557 (OP)

>>714742557 (OP)
pride month over
probably next pride month

Release date will be revealed in the next direct. Hopefully September since Pokemon has October and Metroid isn't big enough to be the holiday game.

I do wonder if they'll throw in Hunters 2 as Switch 2 only multiplayer since mouse-cons mean good movement.

>>714752038
>after the disaster of whatever the previous version was that they scrapped,
What happened?

>>714764991
Namco was making it and it was so utterly dogshit that Nintendo had to outright say it was garbage they couldn't justify selling tonus so they restarted with Retro at the start of 2019. I asked one of the Did You Know Gaming guys on Twitter about it and he said he has the scoop on what happened but it will be a very long time before he can release it.

Metroidfags are always kvetching over “oh Metroid isn’t big enough to get special treatment “oh Metroid isn’t big enough for this slot” oh oh oh pwease my widdle peanuts hoits” jesus you fucking niggers you don’t know how good you actually have it. You’re lucky Metroid isn’t influential enough, well-regarded enough to keep existing at all, atop a mountain of corpses of franchises that didn’t go the distance

>>714765401
*is
YES IM MAD SHUT THE FUCK UP

>>714765401
trvth nvke, metroidfags have the biggest victim complex of any nintendo franchise. in the last three years you got dread, the metroid prime remaster, and soon you’ll get beyond, that is a blisteringly fast release cadence of good games for a “struggling franchise” kek.

>>714765645
Two lost decades so adjustment.

>>714745914
Nintendo does want to grow Metroid, you can see by how they marketed Dread, but Prime 4 was simply too expensive of a project for them, this would have 100% been cancelled if it had not been announced in 2017