The identity of the developer also appeared in the rumor, but this is not such a surprise.
We haven’t heard much from Samus Aran lately. Well, Metroid Dread from MercurySteam was released (as a Nintendo Switch exclusive, of course), which was good, but meanwhile the big N has been announcing for many years that the Metroid Prime series will continue, so part four of it is also being prepared for the Switch, but this its development has not been straightforward since its announcement at E3 2017: at first Bandai Namco Studios was mentioned as the developer, then the IP was returned to Retro Studios, who developed the first three installments.
Yes, but Metroid Prime 4 will be a 3D game in principle. Let’s not forget that Metroid started out as a 2D game on the Famicom Disk System (that is, Nintendo designed it as a floppy game, not a cassette; the 1986 FDS release was followed in 1987 by the American and then the European NES version in 1988 ), so this genre is Samus’s home. Nintendo knows this very well, as Metroid Dread from MercurySteam also offered a 2D experience, and its success was such that, according to the rumor, the big N ordered a new game from the Spanish studio.
Back in April 2021, a Spanish leaker named Nash Weedle tweeted that “2D = yes, MS [MercurySteam] = again, 2021[-es megjelenés] = yes”, and now that claims, that MercurySteam is once again working on a two-dimensional Metroid, but it will not be released in 2023 or 2024, but only in 2025. If Samus is indeed coming back in two years, we have to ask, is she going to the Nintendo Switch or the new N platform? After all, the Switch will be 6 years old in March, and a console generation usually lasts 7 years…
We’ll see what happens, but it’s certain that Nintendo saw the demand for Metroid. We hope that we don’t have to wait long for Metroid Prime 4, which according to a job advertisement seems more emotional and cinematic.
Source: WCCFTech
