Nintendo has made an unfortunate announcement regarding metroid prime 4 and its current state of development.
Metroid prime 4 announcement. If metroid prime 4 had been in development since 2017 and nintendo pulled the plug in early 2020 that may suggest that the company had a three year development cycle in mind. Metroid prime 4 news development rebooted with retro studios. Multiplayer will be a big part of prime 4 to help broaden the appeal of the series to more demographics. News of metroid prime 4 and its inevitable mystery release date are shadowed today by the death of bluepoint games co founder andy o neil who passed away on june 10th at 47 years old.
His team at bluepoint also worked on porting titles like god of war ps2 to ps3. Nintendo scrap metroid prime 4 and start again in a shock announcement back in january 2019 nintendo revealed in a development update video that it scrapped the current project as it wasn t happy. O neil served as the technical lead on metroid prime and metroid prime 2 and as principal engineer on metroid prime 3. Nintendo s leaked e3 2020 plans hint at a major.
Nintendo has been disappointed with development of metroid prime 4 and they are now rebooting the project from the beginning with a new studio. After announcing metroid prime 4 at e3 2017 nintendo never really followed up on the status of the game. Metroid prime 4 working title 3 is a first person adventure4 game currently in development for nintendo switch. Ultimate dlc fighter.
Some fans and media outlets had assumed that the fourth installment of the prime series could be arriving as soon as 2019 but the company was understandably hesitant to provide a release window as speculation ran rampant. Perhaps then we. Hunters with class based action. Nintendo unexpectedly dropped a direct mini announcement on march 26 to tease the next smash bros.
But the announcement says that current producer. It s really hard to say what metroid prime 4 s state of development is like right now there haven t been any major announcements about the game for a very long time as one might expect of a game.