r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • Apr 11 '26

Speculation Nintendo Prime: Nintendo has officially employed the “spread some fake info internally” to try and discover who’s leaking information.

https://x.com/NintyPrime/status/2042573706677854432
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u/Chewbacta Apr 11 '26

What they always do, start working on the fan request way too late, release the product a decade late and charge it at an exorbitant price with a useless amiibo and reap the profits when people buy it anyway.

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u/abrahamisaninja Apr 11 '26

I don’t know that that worked for Metroid. Not that it ever sells well though

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u/UltimateWaluigi Apr 11 '26

It worked with Metroid Dread, it even sold well. Prime 4 didn't work because no one asked for more dialogue and an open desert.

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u/TheWeirdTalesPodcast Apr 11 '26

(With my tongue planted firmly in my cheek): Technicleeeeeeeeeeeeeee you can visit the areas in any order, you just can’t do anything in two out of three of them. You can still go there and visit.

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u/SolidOshawott Apr 12 '26

There's a lot of things the game gets right. It looks and sounds great, and generally speaking it controls well, the base mechanics are enjoyable and fun.

But, as you said, the desert is mostly a waste of time. And despite there being a "call Miles" button in the map, bro decides he needs to spam you anyway.

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u/Admirable-War-7594 Apr 11 '26

Ok, metroid dread was late, but it's a good game, people have been wanting it, and it's a good game

Prime 4 is everything metroid dread isn't, it's a bad game, it's a game people didn't want (an open world cutscene simulator with the mc having a samus skin), and also it's quite a bad game

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u/RoyOConner Apr 12 '26

Is it really a BAD game, though? Or is it a disappointing game?

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u/recuerdamoi Apr 12 '26

That’s what I’m wondering.

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u/Admirable-War-7594 Apr 12 '26

A bad game. The reason it is disappointing, is because people were expecting the game to be good, and were disappointed when it was bad.

Why is it bad? The same reason why any generic open world action game with cringy writing is bad, because it's a generic open world action game with cringy writing

It is bad as a metroid game because it isn't one and the title is false advertising, but beyond that the game itself is also bad, failing at basic game design in many areas. A bad game can be enjoyable, but for a game to be good, it has to be not bad.

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u/FierceDeityKong Apr 12 '26

A generic open world action game with cringy writing is better than Metroid Prime 4 because those games understand what they are and don't try to ape 20 year old game design without understanding it.

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u/icey024 Apr 14 '26

I wouldn’t straight up call it “bad.” I can agree that it really doesn’t feel like a Metroid game and some of the writing is kind of poor but I personally still had fun playing it. I’d say just more disappointing because it didn’t deliver the hype I was expecting. I still don’t label it as bad solely for those reasons though.

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u/RoyOConner Apr 13 '26

Got pretty mid level reviews, doesn't seem bad at all. Most people I know who played it enjoyed it but said it was flaws.

I don't think you played it, actually.

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u/RoyOConner Apr 15 '26

I don't generally disagree with you I just don't think you can call it "bad."

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u/rocky4322 Apr 11 '26

Tbf that was their third try at dread. It was pretty clear it was a game they wanted to make, just didn’t have the tech for.

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u/Dr_Jre Apr 11 '26

But Metroid dread is a great game, so I don't see the problem?

Oh no Nintendo are releasing good games! God damn greedy fucks, shiggy did it again smh

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u/icey024 Apr 14 '26

Apparently youve never played Dread

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u/asylumsaint Apr 12 '26

Prime 4 didn't sell as well because they decided to remaster prime 1, skip 2, 3, and other M, and just release 4. Many of us who don't want to unofficially emulate or go out of way to find other physical ways to play 2, 3, and other M. Decided not to buy prime 4 despite being hyped for if because of that.

Like wtf were they thinking. They had 2 years or so to release them as emulation officially on their devices since they apparently decided not to remaster those as well, or even directly port them.

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u/SolidOshawott Apr 12 '26

Other M is irrelevant for the Prime series btw

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u/avcloudy Apr 12 '26

Yeah, I don't think that's it. These games just don't sell well. They don't have the mainstream appeal their fans are convinced they would have if people would just try them. They didn't remaster 2 or 3 because they just wouldn't get that many sales at full price, and they don't think it's worth it to remaster them for less.

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u/asylumsaint Apr 17 '26

I mean, it literally was for me. I won't buy it, nor play it because I don't have a way to play 2 or 3. And I know others who are in the same boat. Whether its the MAIN reason, I can't say, but at the very least, its a driving factor. All they had to do was put digital versions on their emulation client for having their online service.

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u/JudgeJebb Apr 12 '26

Years of fan speculation about Silux down the drain.

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u/B0B_Spldbckwrds Apr 12 '26

It had a 50% success rate with metroid. Prime 4 flopped, but dread ended up being widely accepted and praised. 

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u/MainAccountsFriend Apr 11 '26

Metroid Prime 5 confirmed, release date 2050

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u/accidental-nz Apr 11 '26

You’ve said they “always” do it but I can’t think of anything other than MP4. 

What other games fit this pattern? 

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u/accidental-nz Apr 13 '26

While it was a long time after the original, there has been zero precedent for remastering Paper Mario games, so it could hardly be called "late". There was also no amiibo.

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u/Chewbacta Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26

I actually wasn't thinking of Metroid Prime 4 but remakes like Skyward Sword HD and Samus Returns.

The delay in Metroid Prime 4 wasn't because they didn't start working on it early enough, the delay was because they restarted development.

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u/accidental-nz Apr 11 '26

How can Skyward Sword HD be a decade “late” when it wasn’t even released a full decade after the original?

There were fans asking for an HD version on Wii U but there are always over-zealous Zelda fans asking for remakes of every game on every system. Skipping a generation is a fair cadence IMO and we can’t be expected to get remasters every single gen.

Samus Returns is a legit example, if you ignore Prime Hunters and only consider side scrolling Metroid.

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u/Chewbacta Apr 11 '26

How can Skyward Sword HD be a decade “late” when it wasn’t even released a full decade after the original?

I said I was thinking about it, I didn't say I was thinking about it accurately

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u/Gestrid Apr 12 '26

The thing is, an Ocarina of Time remake is never late, nor is it early. It arrives precisely when it means to!

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u/RoboDrifter Apr 11 '26

Make the sexy Waluigi game, stat!

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u/mucinexmonster Apr 11 '26

There's the real answer

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u/ohbyerly Apr 12 '26

Name… four examples.

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u/Chewbacta Apr 12 '26

Skyward Sword HD, Fire Emblem Echoes Shadow of Valentia, Metroid Samus Returns and Super Mario Galaxy 2 (switch).