Metroid Prime 4 is alive. Throughout in the present day’s Nintendo Direct occasion, the corporate revealed that the extremely anticipated sequel, now known as Metroid Prime 4: Past, is headed to Swap subsequent 12 months.
It’s been roughly seven years since Nintendo first introduced the sport throughout 2017’s E3 occasion with developer Bandai Namco hooked up. On the time, Metroid Prime 4 was anticipated to shut a decade-long hole between itself and the 2007 Wii recreation Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. Different titles within the general franchise, together with Metroid: Different M, which bought a lukewarm reception, and a remaster of Metroid Prime, had dropped within the meantime, however none had satiated the will for a brand new full Metroid launch. Metroid Prime 4 was supposed to try this—till it disappeared.
Years into growth, your complete mission was scrapped and began once more from scratch in 2019 after it didn’t hit “the requirements we search in a sequel to the Metroid Prime sequence,” Nintendo mentioned on the time. Retro Studios, the sequence’ unique developer, was introduced on board for this second shot at Samus Aran’s return, however after their work started information in regards to the recreation’s growth was scant.
Along with revealing that Metroid Prime 4: Past might be out there for Swap a while in 2025, Nintendo launched gameplay footage that features Samus scanning aliens, taking pictures all the pieces in sight, and turning into a pleasant neat little ball—the classics, because it have been. Few different particulars got as the sport closed out in the present day’s Nintendo Direct, which additionally included information of a brand new Legend of Zelda recreation, but it surely felt like a deluge after the 5 years of knowledge drought that preceded it.
Metroid Prime 4: Past seems to be arriving close to the tip of the present Swap’s lifecycle. Information in regards to the console’s successor is predicted with each new Nintendo occasion, however up to now there was none. Nonetheless, Metroid followers are able to welcome Samus again. Or, as one particular person put it on X with a screenshot of a 2018 receipt: “My preorder lastly means one thing!”
