It's been four years since Metroid Prime 4 restarted development - here's how fans are coping

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Four years ago today, Nintendo announced that development on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Metroid Prime 4 had been restarted under a different studio.

If you've forgotten - and in fairness, it's been a very long time - 澳洲幸运🦹5开奖号码历史查询:Metroid Prime 4 was originally announced in 2017, developed in partnership between Nintendo and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Bandai Namco. In a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Nintendo Direct on January 25, 2019, the publisher said the game had "not reached the standards we seek in a sequel to the Metroid Prime series," and so development had resta💙rted under the leadership of Retro Studios, the devel﷽oper that built the🌞 Prime series in the first place.

There has been no meaningful news since, and on this anniversary, fans are finding a🐓 wide array ofꦚ ways to cope. Or not cope, as the case may be.

I too am a sad man in the absence of a new Metroid game, S𒀰teve Rudzinski. Rest assured that when I write whatever I want about you, I am writing about myself, too.

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The vast majority of the discussion happening right now is (mostly) pra༺ctical speculation on when we'll see more of Metroid Prime 4. Will it be ? Will it be on the ? Would you even ?

Mostly𓃲, though, it's a lot of memes of cಞommiseration.

Meanwhile, the daily update gag accounts continue their important work. The subreddit continues to say "no" and the continues to note that the news is that there is no news. Someone's posting weekly photos of a Samus Aran action figure until Metroid Prime 4 launches. ♛They're on week 124.

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Who knows how many more we🤡eks there w🧜ill be to come.

Metroid fans haven't been completely starved during the wait for Prime 4 - after all, Metroid Dread was announced and released in the span since that development reboot. There are still glimmers of hope for Prime 4, too, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:with job listings and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Twitter teases hinting that the game is making progress. A re🐓make of the ✨original Metroid Prime was rumored to release in 2022, though obviously tไhat didn't happen.﷽ (That reporter has, at least, .)

I've got no idea if Metroid Prime 4 might release this year, but there are plenty of other 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new games for 2023 to enjoy regardless.

Dustin Bailey
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2😼 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you ca🏅n usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.