Its hard to say.In one hand, every single long standing franchise is doing far better in the Switch than previous entries.On the other hand, MP 4 must have been in development a good while before the Switch released, so Nintendo wouldnt know that.
Having said that, I think Prime 4 is a game that requires that extra budget for the graphical department, given how much atmospheric the game is.And given the Switch massive sucess.Nintendo may have given an extra budget for whatever developer making the game hire some extra help to polish the game further, to give that extra shine.But you guys need to be reasonable, Metroid is not a big Nintendo franchise, at the very least on the sales front, and Nintendo wont go all in on it.In another words, they wont invest BOTW levels of money on it.
But I must say, games like Metroid and Xenoblade needs to get bigger budgets in order to grow.At least on Xenoblade case, it was made pretty clear that there is a big audience for those kind of games.
My (locked) thread about how difficulty should be a decision for the developers, not the gamers.
https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=241866&page=1
