Summer 2017 Nintendo officially announced Metroid prime 4 for Switchand many fans hoped that re-editions of the first three games in the series would appear on the hybrid console before its release. It is not yet known if this will ever happen, but the former developer Retro studios Michael Wikan shared controversial thoughts on this.
Michael has worked at Retro Studios for many years and was instrumental in the production of the trilogy. Metroid prime, as well as Donkey Kong Country Returns… In fact, he was the senior designer for each of these projects.
On the Shinesparkers Facebook page, Vikan stated that Porting Metroid Prime 1-3 to Switch will require a “titanic effort” from the developers due to the way the controls are concerned, so he doubts the updated trilogy will ever see the light of day…
“It will take a lot of effort, so I’m pretty skeptical that this will happen. Upgrade MP1 and 2 for motion control [на Wii] was not difficult, but converting the MP3 for normal control would be overwhelming, since [его код] is written specifically for complex movement tracking mechanics for precise execution of certain actions, and bosses are configured with the convenience of gesture aiming in mind. “
Wikan also added that Retro Studios no longer has a functioning Metroid Prime coding toolkit, so the remasters would have to be brute-force coded… He suggested that it might take a team of 4-5 people an entire year just to rewrite the hundreds of interconnected mechanisms in Metroid Prime 3 and reconfigure the gameplay “to a slower pace of interaction with normal controls.”
As far as gyro control on the Switch goes, Wikan doesn’t believe it will work adequately in the Metroid Prime trilogy.
It’s worth noting that the developer hasn’t been with Nintendo for over 10 years.… In 2011 he got a job in a studio id Software, and then moved to the company Booz allen hamilton…
Early 2019 former editor GameInformer Imran Khan statedthat Metroid Prime Trilogy has long been adapted for the Nintendo Switch and was going to announce back in December 2018 – presumably on The Game Awards 2018… However, a month later, Nintendo announced that it was restarting development for Metroid Prime 4 from scratch, which Han believes was the reason for the delay in Metroid Prime Trilogy’s release on Switch.
According to the journalist, Nintendo is also working on a new 2D part of Metroid. This was later also reported by other well-known insiders.
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