I'm very used to wait eternities for my Pikmin games. This delay is nothing compared to them:-p

Oof. That's terrible news. 2021 or 2020 now.

I thought the leaker said he faked it for attention?

I could be confusing it with something else.

I sure hope it's not 20201

I'm sorry but what made them think Namco Bandai would be a good fit for the Prime series? It'd be like sony giving Uncharted to Platinum games... super efficient studio but not known for the tone, detail or story telling of the uncharted franchise.

I think it's time Nintendo invest in another western studio ala Rare. They've got so many sure fired 10m sellers like (Smash, MK, 3D Mario, Splatoon, Zelda, Pokemon) and whole bunch of lower budget automatic hits like Mario Party, Kirby etc I think they can afford to put some money into 1 or 2 tonally mature AAA IPs.

I was hoping Retro was working on something like this, hopefully we still see a new game from them and get this Metroid at the launch of the Switch 2 (2022)

So, basically, when they showed that teaser a couple years ago, all they had was that, the teaser. That's what I was worried about, and reinforces my idea of buying a system for the game it has, not the ones it can have in the future (something I learned with Wii U).

At least they're telling us why we haven't heard anything about the game since then, and why we shouldn't expect to see anyhting about it until at least next year. Now we only need to wait for the so called insiders to tell us what's been going with the game and which were the problems that have caused this reboot, and what does it mean for Retro and its plans.

Nah a ton of people have said in the game is real from usual names that pop up in Switch leaks like Liam Robertson, Emily Rogers, etc, to outlets like IGN and GameInformer, to even Kotaku's Jason Schreier. There is a ton of smoke when it comes this game and where's there's fire. So yeah enough credible said its real to the point that I think it is most likely real.

If this rumored game is real, I´d find it very weird and unusual that we don´t know if the damn thing even exists, if it´s indeed really close to finished. 

They could´ve definitely said or showed something about it by now if it´s like, at least 80% finished.

Idk they release a lot of games shortly after announcing them. Just last year for example

Mario Tennis announced in Jan, released in June.

Smash was teased in March, formally announced in June and released in Dec.

Pokemon Let's Go was announced in May, released in Nov.

Mario Party was announced in June, released in Oct.

Apparently there is a little more to the delay, according to Game Informer's senior editor Imran Khan and his sources.
https://mynintendonews.com/2019/01/25/game-informer-senior-editor-tweets-what-hes-heard-regarding-metroid-prime-4/

It looks like Nintendo initially aimed to have multiple teams from different countries work on different aspects on the game, which apparently is not an uncommon practice in AAA development at least. Then, as development was not going where Nintendo wanted it to go to meet their standards, they decided to redo everything under their own internal team under one roof with Retro Studios.

Edit: duplicate phrase in the last sentence.