Metroid – one of the leading exclusive franchises Nintendo. It is assumed that such treasures do not give it to anyone, and gently and carefully process the forces of internal studios. But Nintendo, Judging by rumors, she acted differently: she entrusted Metroid Prime 4 For Nintendo Switch Studio Bandai Namco.
Gossip crawled about this on the network a few days ago, and today they were confirmed by some sources of Eurogamer.
According to reports leading the https://zebra-wins.uk/ studio in the development Metroid Prime 4 protrudes Bandai Namco Studios Singapore. This team is a home for some former employees Lucasarts Singapore. A Lucasarts Singapore, in turn, took part in the development Star Wars 1313.
Partly rumors are confirmed through the current portfolio of employees Bandai Namco Studios Singapore. Developers as their achievements mention a certain “secret, ambitious and very interesting” non -anneized AAA-game, the details of which will begin to be voiced in the near future. In touch with Metroid Prime 4 indicates the posted “adventure shower in the first person, exclusive for Nintendo Switch”.
By the way, in the same portfolio there were references to the racing arcade Ridge Racer 8: She allegedly will also become exclusive for Nintendo Switch.
Note that the relationship between Nintendo And Bandai Namco Very warm: Bandai Namco Developed Super Smash Bros. for 3DS and WII U, as well as a branch Pokémon For Wii U and Nintendo Switch – Pokkén Tournament.
In addition, the trilogy Metroid Prime Appeared with efforts Retro Studios, And the original Metroid Prime became the first project in the history of the company. The game reached GameCube in 2002 and received 97 points out of 100 on Metacritic. So Nintendo Already given Metroid in the hands of developers without a rich past and did it extremely successfully.
Metroid Prime 4 announced on E3 2017. The release date is unknown. Of the official details, we know only one thing: the producer of the series is watching the fourth part Metroid Prime Kensuke Tanabe (Kensuke tanabe).