Metroid Prime 4: Beyond

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Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
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Developer(s) Retro Studios [lower-alpha 1]
Publisher(s) Nintendo
Producer(s) Kensuke Tanabe
Series Metroid
Platform(s) Nintendo Switch
Release2025
Genre(s) Action-adventure
Mode(s) Single-player

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is an upcoming first person action-adventure game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It was announced at E3 2017, and was reportedly initially developed by Bandai Namco Studios. In January 2019, Nintendo announced that development had restarted under Retro Studios, the developer of the previous Metroid Prime games. Kensuke Tanabe, who worked on all of the previous Prime games, returned as a producer. Prime 4: Beyond is scheduled for release in 2025.

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Development

The former logo, shown at the 2017 reveal Metroid Prime 4.jpg
The former logo, shown at the 2017 reveal

In 2015, the producer Kensuke Tanabe said the next Metroid Prime game could involve the bounty hunter Sylux, who was introduced in Metroid Prime Hunters (2006) and appeared at the end of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (2007) in pursuit of the player character, Samus Aran. [2]

Nintendo announced Metroid Prime 4 during the Nintendo Direct presentation at E3 2017. Bill Trinen, the director of product marketing at Nintendo of America, confirmed that it would involve Tanabe but not Retro Studios, which had developed the previous Prime games. [3] [4] While not confirmed by Nintendo, Eurogamer reported that Prime 4 was being developed by Bandai Namco Studios in Japan and Singapore. The Bandai Singapore staff included former LucasArts staff who had worked on the canceled Star Wars 1313 . [1]

In 2018, the Nintendo of America president, Reggie Fils-Aimé, said that Metroid Prime 4 was "well into development" and "proceeding well". [5] [6] However, Nintendo did not show it at E3 2018, saying they would only share more information when they "had something that would wow people". [7]

In January 2019, the Nintendo EPD general manager Shinya Takahashi announced that development had restarted under Retro Studios with Tanabe. Takahashi said that the previous studio had not met Nintendo's standards and that the decision to restart the project was not taken lightly. [8] In October 2020, Retro posted a job advertisement seeking storyboard artists to work on "emotional" and "interesting and innovative scenes that elevate the narrative". Video Games Chronicle took this as an indication of a more cinematic focus. [9]

During a Nintendo Direct presentation in June 2024, Nintendo released the first trailer and the title Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, with a release year of 2025. [10] The trailer showcased similar gameplay to the previous Prime games, with Samus exploring a forest world, using her morph ball ability, scanning a Space Pirate and encountering Sylux. [11]

Notes

  1. ↑ Reportedly developed by Bandai Namco Studios until development was restarted in 2019. [1]

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