The Nintendo Switch has been in an interesting place in 2018. First and foremost, it’s been doing good in sales. Having sold six million units in its first six months of the new fiscal year. However, in terms of games, it’s been a little more sporadic. Granted, even with the length between big titles, they still sell well, but it wasn’t the same as 2017. 2019 though is shaping up to be an incredible year, one that may be highlighted by the release of Metroid Prime 4.
The game was teased at E3 2017 with nothing more than a simple logo reveal to say it was coming. Ever since then, we’ve gotten little to no information about. In fact, the only thing we do know is that it is NOT being made by Retro Studios, who made the original Prime series. Reggie Fils-Aime of Nintendo talked with Mashable about when Metroid Prime 4 may release:
“Internally, we have expectations about when [Metroid Prime 4] is going to be released,” Fils-Aime said. “We haven’t announced it, but yeah, the game is well in development.”
Of course, the question becomes, why show off Prime 4 then when the release window clearly wasn’t soon? Well, he talked about that too, and it all had to do with strategy:
“Typically six months to maybe a year out is what we like to do, but there are times for strategic reasons that we believe it’s important to message that a game is coming,” he said. “We did that years and years ago with Zelda. We were messaging a new Zelda experience back during the days of the Wii U…it really depends on the game, it depends on the type of development that it’s going through, and it depends on how we feel the consumer is going to respond to the particular message,” he explained.
Given that fans wanted to see what Nintendo had in store for the long run, it makes sense that they wanted to show off that the game was coming. Hopefully soon we’ll find out more about it.
