Metroid Prime 4 development restarted with new studio
26th January 2019, 10:44 AM
I was pretty worried when they handed over such a major entry in the franchise to them in the first place. Yes, technically they also were behind the two most recent Smash Bros games, but it was led by Sora managing everything.
It's good to see Nintendo is willing to avoid the "sunk cost fallacy" and start over when needed. You ask some very good questions about Retro, and honestly a big chunk of the old talent that made the original Prime great is working for Microsoft now. (They made ReCore, so, yeah, once again MS snatching up developers and then having no idea how to manage them.) Metroid Prime 3 honestly wasn't all that good compared to the first 2. I mean, it's good, but the change in design meant it wasn't quite the Metroid experience we'd come to expect. Way too much story, and way too much linearity. Hopefully they can walk that back with 4.
It's good to see Nintendo is willing to avoid the "sunk cost fallacy" and start over when needed. You ask some very good questions about Retro, and honestly a big chunk of the old talent that made the original Prime great is working for Microsoft now. (They made ReCore, so, yeah, once again MS snatching up developers and then having no idea how to manage them.) Metroid Prime 3 honestly wasn't all that good compared to the first 2. I mean, it's good, but the change in design meant it wasn't quite the Metroid experience we'd come to expect. Way too much story, and way too much linearity. Hopefully they can walk that back with 4.
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