Metroid Prime 4 Delayed for Not Meeting Expectations

[Thomas_JCG]

Nintendo lied to cover the lack of games in Switch, now they have to make a game at the level of Nier Automata and that will take 4 years, it will not come out for this generation, if they continue like this it may be a mobile game.

Lack of games? Friend, have you seen the Nintendo Switch? Everyday there is a new port coming. Despite being released less than two years ago, it already counts with a library of 1306 games, nearly as much as PS4 and XONE and those consoles are almost five years old.

Second, what Nier has to do with anything?

Third, I posted a link a little while ago that you should take a look. Nintendo has no intention of abandoning the Switch or swap their business model to phones:
https://nintendoeverything.com/ninte...nsidered-more/

[Gemini73]

"A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad."

Shigeru Miyamoto

[xadu]

Dude cannot get a good haircut, and that's the only good thing I can say about him.

[Baron Baldric]

Lack of games? Friend, have you seen the Nintendo Switch? Everyday there is a new port coming. Despite being released less than two years ago, it already counts with a library of 1306 games, nearly as much as PS4 and XONE and those consoles are almost five years old.

Put this in context, E3 2017, Nintendo has just released its console to the market and didn't have games, so they lied to their fans promising a game that didn't exist.

Now they start saying "now we are working on the game", 2019, next year we see a five minute trailer, 2020, ten minutes of gameplay, 2021, the game is announced for 2022.

Second, what Nier has to do with anything?

Many fans want to unify the 2.5D and 3D gaming experience in a single game, that's why I'm talking about Nier Automata.

Third, I posted a link a little while ago that you should take a look. Nintendo has no intention of abandoning the Switch or swap their business model to phones:
https://nintendoeverything.com/ninte...nsidered-more/

Obviously they don't announce a new console in four years.
See the gains produced by Pokémon Go and how many profits Pokémon let's Go produced and you will understand the danger of the cell phone market.


I had no plans to criticize the current Switch catalog, if you want we can analyze how many of those games are Indie.

[Craig]

I'm totally okay with it. If there was more transparency like this, I think there'd be less delay outrage. This kind of puts you in a position where you can't be mad—you either give them more time or you accept a bad game.

[Thomas_JCG]

Put this in context, E3 2017, Nintendo has just released its console to the market and didn't have games, so they lied to their fans promising a game that didn't exist.

Lol, no. First off, Switch had plenty of games already and many more coming in the following months, including little know games like Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Splatoon 2. Even when they announced it, they still acknowledged that the game was many years away, how would that make a difference for people buying the console in 2017? You think someone went "I'm gonna buy a Switch now while it is expensive so I can play Metroid Prime 4 when it releases in, like, 2024"?

Many fans want to unify the 2.5D and 3D gaming experience in a single game, that's why I'm talking about Nier Automata.

And I still don't see what Nier has to do with anything, and also never heard of fans wanting to unify 2.5D and 3D, mostly because the previous Metroid Prime games were all 3D.

See the gains produced by Pokémon Go and how many profits Pokémon let's Go produced and you will understand the danger of the cell phone market.

Did you actually read the interview I told you about? The one where the president of Nintendo clearly talks about mobile being just an extra form of income and not their main focus?
While companies like Blizzard are out chasing whales, Nintendo remains committed to their consoles.

I had no plans to criticize the current Switch catalog, if you want we can analyze how many of those games are Indie.

And? Indie games have quickly become better than AAA games, and always made the majority of every console. You think all the PS4 games are like Red Dead Redemption 2?

[Baron Baldric]

Even when they announced it, they still acknowledged that the game was many years away, how would that make a difference for people buying the console in 2017? You think someone went "I'm gonna buy a Switch now while it is expensive so I can play Metroid Prime 4 when it releases in, like, 2024"?

Why is it hard for you to accept that Nintendo lied to improve console sales? All this is another lie to cover the previous one.

[Thomas_JCG]

Why is it hard for you to accept that Nintendo lied to improve console sales? All this is another lie to cover the previous one.

Do you honestly have to ask why is it hard to accept an arbitrary, baseless accusation made by someone with not ties to the game industry?
You literally just decided that Nintendo was lying about making Metroid Prime 4 two years ago, you don't have facts or even anecdotal evidence to sustain that claim. You might as well have said that Blizzard is being replaced by pod people by Activision, and that fib would still be more accurate.

[GoblinHero]

I'm okay with a delay. Ocarina of Time was going to be an entirely different game until it was pushed back a year. I still have a Nintendo Power with the original preview.

[Dub-Z]

I can't help but wonder what fresh ideas Metroid could present if they were free to explore and reinvent as much as Mario and Zelda do.

[Omegapyrate]

Good for them, I say. Must've taken a great big pair of brass balls to make the decision and be the guy who stands in front of the internet and tells everybody. There's honest-to-god integrity in this that so many other companies just lack completely.

[Merlin]

using image tags doesn't work so just click this for me and pretend I was clever in posting this image alone.

https://memegenerator.net/img/instan...understand.jpg

[Thomas_JCG]

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