Everything we know about Metroid Prime 4: Rumours, trailer and more

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(Pocket-lint) — Rarely do we have to wait quite this long for a game that's been confirmed as in development — Metroid Prime 4 was first announced all the way back in 2017, at E3.

Well, it's more than five years since then and it's nowhere to be found, but that doesn't mean there's nothing to go on. Find out all the key details right here.

You can see the announcement teaser for Metroid Prime above this section, although there's basically no meat to it. It's just a logo and the confirmation that the game is in development.

We got no news about the game from that teaser until 2019, when Nintendo made the surprising move of publicly announcing that it was scrapping what had been done so far on the game, and starting again under the helm of Retro Studios.

This is an unusual degree of communication not just for Nintendo but for the games industry more widely, but it probably knew that questions and rumours would keep mounting up if it didn't step in and clarify the situation.

Still, it's now been three years since that update, and we can only assume that development has been in progress that whole time. There's been little mention of the game, but in the intervening years a 2D Metroid came out to rave reviews on the Nintendo Switch — Metroid Dread.

We hope that by the end of 2022 we might hear more about Metroid Prime 4, and the good thing about Nintendo is that it is prone to dropping game very soon after showcasing gameplay for the first time. Still, at this stage it's probably safer to hope for a release sometime in 2023, given the timeline of its development so far.

One of the few details that accompanied Metroid Prime 4's initial announcement was that it was in development exclusively for the Nintendo Switch, and while