‘Metroid Prime 4’ goes back to the drawing board two years into development

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Metroid Prime 4 just hit quite the development speed bump.

Development on Metroid Prime 4 for Nintendo Switch has been restarted about a year and a half after the game was first revealed by Nintendo, Nintendo’s head of development Shinya Takahashi announced in a video Friday. The game is now in the hands of Retro Studios and probably won’t be coming out in the next year or two as fans had hoped.

Takahashi said that development on Metroid Prime 4 was not meeting Nintendo’s standards, and so instead of delivering a product that the company wasn’t proud of, they are restarting development with producer Kensuke Tanabe and developer Retro Studios. Read more…

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