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« Last post by JG on March 30, 2025, 08:49:21 pm »I though the Chozo forest temple we saw in the Metroid prime trailer looked washed out, like watercolors. It didn't look sharp to me. I really thought the battle scene we saw in the first trailer looked better.
This Direct failed to do the thing it needed to do the most - set the stage for the next 3-4 months. I'm frankly getting very worried about the April 2 Direct because its been over half a year since Nintendo's media relations did it right. They messed up September by not doing anything (despite Sony running roughshod over them), messed up October by rolling out all the announcements in Twitter instead of a more consolidated program, messed up January by sidelining DKCR HD with the Switch 2 trailer that failed to hit the marks it needed to hit, messed up February by doing nothing (an again, Sony was there to step up), and now messed up March by not properly setting up a transition period, and just casting Switch 1 fans off into the unknown for the next several months. I fear 3D Mario may be the only thing they deliver to rest of year that I want, and it'll probably be a fall game too. I don't care about Mario Kart and hope they have something better to offer at launch (a cross-gen Metroid Prime 4 would have done it, but that's seeming less likely now.) I don't really care to see Breath of the Wild DX. I don't want to see Fire Emblem remake or Kirby: Planet Robobot be Switch 2 if they don't need to be. And I sure don't want to see Camelot show up with another Mario Tennis game for Switch 2. I don't want to dig out my Wii to replay Metroid Prime 2+3.
Also sad to see this being the potentially end of the line for the Metroid Prime series. Six years of development, with the staff size of Retro in Austin, Texas (one of the most expensive software development markets in the world) its incredibly likely Metroid Prime 4 is Nintendo's most expensive game ever at around $200 million (unless they're also dropping a Switch 2 title in the next 12 months.) The way its being set up, its rolling out to Dread-like numbers of 3 million tops, perhaps 2.5M million given the scale down of Switch 1 advertising. Unless Nintendo has some secret ad campaign, or an at-launch cross-gen upgrade, its going to take a $50-$80 million bath and be Nintendo's largest money loser ever. I don't think they ever do an MP5 if they lose $50+ million on MP4. It needed to get done in 2022, or it needed to look forward toward Switch 2 so it would have the legs to run out to 4 or 5 million unit sales over the course of a few years. If its a Switch 1-only title in a post-Switch 2 world, there's little hope for it.
This Direct failed to do the thing it needed to do the most - set the stage for the next 3-4 months. I'm frankly getting very worried about the April 2 Direct because its been over half a year since Nintendo's media relations did it right. They messed up September by not doing anything (despite Sony running roughshod over them), messed up October by rolling out all the announcements in Twitter instead of a more consolidated program, messed up January by sidelining DKCR HD with the Switch 2 trailer that failed to hit the marks it needed to hit, messed up February by doing nothing (an again, Sony was there to step up), and now messed up March by not properly setting up a transition period, and just casting Switch 1 fans off into the unknown for the next several months. I fear 3D Mario may be the only thing they deliver to rest of year that I want, and it'll probably be a fall game too. I don't care about Mario Kart and hope they have something better to offer at launch (a cross-gen Metroid Prime 4 would have done it, but that's seeming less likely now.) I don't really care to see Breath of the Wild DX. I don't want to see Fire Emblem remake or Kirby: Planet Robobot be Switch 2 if they don't need to be. And I sure don't want to see Camelot show up with another Mario Tennis game for Switch 2. I don't want to dig out my Wii to replay Metroid Prime 2+3.
Also sad to see this being the potentially end of the line for the Metroid Prime series. Six years of development, with the staff size of Retro in Austin, Texas (one of the most expensive software development markets in the world) its incredibly likely Metroid Prime 4 is Nintendo's most expensive game ever at around $200 million (unless they're also dropping a Switch 2 title in the next 12 months.) The way its being set up, its rolling out to Dread-like numbers of 3 million tops, perhaps 2.5M million given the scale down of Switch 1 advertising. Unless Nintendo has some secret ad campaign, or an at-launch cross-gen upgrade, its going to take a $50-$80 million bath and be Nintendo's largest money loser ever. I don't think they ever do an MP5 if they lose $50+ million on MP4. It needed to get done in 2022, or it needed to look forward toward Switch 2 so it would have the legs to run out to 4 or 5 million unit sales over the course of a few years. If its a Switch 1-only title in a post-Switch 2 world, there's little hope for it.
