Nintendo's 2016 E3 Digital Event Leak/Rumor

[Jon-Erich]

JEMC said:

Jon-Erich said:
Some of the other stuff is believable but the Metroid Prime IV thing is bullshit. Just last year, Nintendo said there wasn't one in development. Even if they started one right after that comment was made, it still wouldn't be ready enough to show everyone. Nintendo also isn't the type of company who announces a game before they have anything to show.

Actually, the Metroid producer said that if they started development "right now", it would take years to get the game ready. But that doesn't mean that the game couldn't be already in development but not announced, right?

Anyway, the reason of why that Metroid Prime IV section is fake is that the Prime series is done. The whole saga revolves around Phazon, and it was eradicated after the events of Metroid Prime 3.

That is true but he also falt out said that a new Metroid game (that isn't federation Force) is not in development. So even if he flew back to Japan after E3, typed up a document, got the approval to work on a new game, there would still be several months of preproduction that would have to be arranged. So even if Metroid Prime IV or any new Metroid game was in development, chances are the actual development would not have started until late last year or early this year, meaning that we would be lucky to even get a teaser trailer by E3 2017.

Also, the fact that Metroid Prime 3 finished the Prime series doesn't mean anything. They could always a game that takes place between two games, kind of like how Hunters took place between Prime 1+2 or kind of like how the entire Prime series took place between Metroid 1+2.