

I think the obvious guess, knowing their specialities, is that it won’t be a first person shooter but exactly how much will it be like Hitman? I could see the basic third person action working but replace all the puzzle-solving/murder with dialogue and gadgets and I think that’s the most obvious guess. In case you forgot, and it’d be understandable if you did, Hitman makers Io Interactive bought the right and… haven’t give a clue as to what it’ll be like. With the new Bond film out this month I wonder when we’ll hear the first details on the game. I don’t know how well Metroid Dread is going to do but I hope it’s better than expected and we can start to see new games more often and not just once every other generation. I’ll admit, I just want Metroid to become a big name franchise. A remake using the tech of Metroid Prime 4, perhaps as some sort of early test, sounds great to me, but I have no idea how feasible it is. Or is the idea that maybe the Metroid Prime 1 game is a remake? Lots of people, even games companies, seem to get the two words mixed up so I’m not sure we can trust these rumours on whether it’s one or the other. Wasn’t the rumour that the whole thing was done ages ago and delayed when Metroid Prime 4 was restarted? How much work can it involve, considering there was already a trilogy compilation on the Wii and Nintendo are famously lazy about this sort of thing. I’m not sure I understand why the talk is now of Metroid Prime 1 only getting a remaster, instead of the whole trilogy. Next generation facial technology in all its glory. It’s really funny his whole face is off somehow and those eyes are just mesmerising. I’m just reading today’s GC and I haven’t been able to stop laughing every time I see the image for the article about eFootball, which I assume is supposed to be Lionel Messi. Given what’s happened with eFootball it’s pretty hard to imagine that the same company is somehow going to turn out a new modern classic as their next game.

What I’m most interested in is a new Castlevania (can’t see the point of Metal Gear without Kojima) and whether they’ll make it a 2D game like the new Metroid or try some kind of Dark Souls style 3D game. If they’re making them themselves it’s less likely that details would leak, although the rumours claims they’re using other companies and I can’t believe if that was true we wouldn’t have got something a bit more substantial by now. It’s like Nintendo in that every time it sounds plausible and logical and then… it just doesn’t happen. I feel like we’ve been hearing rumours about Konami getting back into gaming, with new Castlevania, Metal Gear, and Silent Hill games for years now.

Will I be right? Probably not, but those are my guesses! I could even be someone from Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 2, so it doesn’t have to be a brand new franchise. “It’s progressing well, and we’ll share more at the appropriate time.” In the meantime, at least fans can now play as the Metroid villain Ridley in the new Super Smash Bros Ultimate.New Nintendo character for a game not yet announced also makes sense, in an attempt to kind of future proof Smash for a few more years. "There’s an exception to every rule,” he says of the choice to reveal the game in 2017.Īs for the status of Metroid Prime 4? “It’s still in development,” he says. Fils-Aimé added that the company prefers to focus its marketing efforts on games that will be available in the near-term, hence Prime 4’s absence from this year’s event. “Last year with Metroid Prime 4, it was important to highlight for the Metroid fan that that franchise was going to come to Nintendo Switch, so that we could also share Metroid: Samus Returns for the 3DS, and not have them be so disappointed that a mainline Metroid experience isn’t coming,” he tells The Verge. According to Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé, there’s a very specific reason why the company announced Metroid last year, even though it was still so early in development. Nintendo announced the game at E3 last year with no details beyond the title, and many fans were hoping to hear more about it at the company’s presentation on Tuesday. There was a lot to get excited about during Nintendo’s E3 presentation this week, but one game was conspicuously absent: Metroid Prime 4.
