NEWS: METROID PRIME 4 DEVELOPMENT RESTARTED 'FROM SCRATCH'

Shigeru Miyamoto's famous words stating that ​“A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever” is often referred to over the years as game development, becoming grander and more ambitious, regularly causing many games to miss their release date. Nintendo has rarely found themselves in such predicaments as it's usually their style to announce a title when it's far enough in development and release date not far off.  However, to the shock of everyone Nintendo stepped away from this creed when the announcement of Metroid Prime 4 at E3 2017 was accompanied by only a short title video and no gameplay. 

Now fast forward 18 months and little of the game had been seen with very small update from when Nintendo of America president and COO Reggie Fils-Aime stated that "the game is well in development" in late November of last year. Such silence had caused many to fear that the game would not be ready for 2019. Today, those fears were realized with Nintendo announcing that Metriod Prime 4 development would be restarting from the beginning with the help of Retro Studios, the original developers of the Metroid Prime games. This decision was made mainly because the game "has not reached the standards we seek in a sequel to the Metroid Prime series" according the Nintendo. 

It was big of Nintendo to be honest but the continuous debates about publishers announcing games way too early will come once come to light.  Also, how big of a blow to the switch's 2019 line up this will have is yet to be seen as other big titles such as Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Luigi's Mansion 3 are also on dock for this year. Surely a Metroid Prime HD Trilogy must become an attractive 'I AM Sorry' gift to the fans for Nintendo at this point. Anyway here's hoping Miyamoto's words bare fruit and Metriod Prime 4 is a top game when it is finally release. 

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