Metroid Prime 4: Release date speculation and latest news
It's been over 15 years since Samus blasted into hyperspace in the secret ending of Metroid Prime 3, and we fans have been eagerly awaiting a sequel ever since. Well, we've graduated, had kids, maybe even retired, but Metroid Prime 4 has been somewhere in the periphery of our consciousness the whole time.
It's been six years since its announcement, and four years since we learned the plan had been scrapped and rebooted with the help of Retro Studios. Is there a light at the end of the tunnel yet?
We wouldn't recommend booking a day off work to play Metroid Prime 4 just yet. All we know is shared below.
While we don't have an official release date, there's no harm in speculating! AAA games often about 5 years to make, and it's been four since we learned the team had started the project from scratch.
Perhaps we're being generous, but we'll hazard a guess at late 2024.
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While there isn't a page for it on the Nintendo store yet, Game seem to be well ahead of things.
They not only have a Metroid Prime 4 page, but they're offering a pre-order price at £59.99. How this is possible when we know next to nothing about the game, we don't know. But you can check out the page here!
As with any historical Nintendo franchise, we'd be surprised if Metroid Prime 4 dropped on anything other than a Nintendo console.
So expect it on the Switch!
For the story, we can only speculate — so let's look back at Metroid Prime 3's ending. It seemed to round up the Prime trilogy that started on the GameCube in 2002, with the
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