Development Update on Metroid Prime 4 for Nintendo Switch

Development Update on Metroid Prime 4 for Nintendo Switch is a three minute video released by Nintendo on January 25, 2019. It was presented by Shinya Takahashi, who gave an important update on the development process of Metroid Prime 4, for which there had been no significant news since its unveiling at E3 2017. Takahashi speaks Japanese in the video, with English subtitles provided.

Takahashi explained that the game as it was did not live up to the quality of the original three installments of the series. Thus, Nintendo made the difficult decision to transfer the game's development to Retro Studios, as well as the series producer Kensuke Tanabe, causing the game to be scrapped and restarted from scratch. Takahashi apologized for the delay and said that it would be a "long road" until the next update on the progress of Metroid Prime 4. He promised that development would be extensive, and that when completed, it would "stand shoulder to shoulder with the past Metroid Prime series titles."

The video was #22 on YouTube's list of trending videos on the day of its release, and Metroid Prime 4 trended on Twitter worldwide.

The video can be viewed with English subtitles here:.

On the Nintendo France YouTube channel, it is titled Information concernant le développement de Metroid Prime 4 sur Nintendo Switch. In Japanese, it is titled Metroid Prime 4 (Nintendo Switch) 開発状況に関するお知らせ.