Almost a decade compared to its initial announcement, Nintendo will finally launch Metroid Prime 4: Beyond for Switch and Switch 2 later this year, December 4, 2025.
Nintendo made this announcement today during its large, direct dissemination Nintendo, finishing months of speculation around the place of Metroid Prime 4.
Nothing had been seen from the game since the big revelation event of the Switch 2 at the beginning of April, which had prompted the speculation of the fans that the game had been broadcast or which was to be delayed again.
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond has already had a dramatic route to publish. As long-awaited follow-up of Metroid Prime 3: 2007 corruption, originally launched on Wii, a fourth episode of the first-person action-adventure series was long awaited by fans.
The development of the project initially started in the Bandai Namco studios, although Nintendo restarted the game to the Metroid Prime Trilogy Developer Retro Studios after two years, dissatisfied with the way the development took place. We then heard of the game for years, until it was officially resettled in 2024, then confirmed as an inter-Gen title for Switch and Switch 2.
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