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Kakadu18 on 20 February 2022
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Illusion said:

I guess that I am more on the pessimistic side but I feel that a Samus canvas for Retro Studio's "We're Hiring" banner is not super impressive in 2022. Firstly, the game is supposed to be 3 years into development, it concerns me that they are doing a big enough hiring campaign to justify something like this on the front page of their website. I would have expected a hiring add like this back in March of 2019 after Nintendo announced that Retro would be leading the project. Secondly, we're 3 years into development, a banner is not enough. We should have had at least a trailer + a follow-up gameplay broadcast of some kind by now. My honest feeling is that the project is probably stalled as of right now and that Retro has made very little firm progress and that they are trying to relaunch development.

That said, let's take this banner as a positive sign that they are indeed trying to relaunch the project and that it will hopefully be successful this time. If that is the case then hopefully we can at least get some kind of teaser trailer before the end of the year and maybe a release in 3 years (which is the minimum amount of time that it will take to develop a AAA game like Prime 4 properly). Once I see a trailer, I will become very excited.

Do you think studios only hire at the start of a game's development? No, they constantly hire throughout development. Monolith Soft more than doubled their headcount during the development of Xenoblade Chronicles 3,which btw has been in development for a longer time than Metroid Prime 4 is now.

They restarted three years ago. There is zero evidence that they restarted again. Nintendo only shows their games when they're ready and close to launch with only Zelda being an exception. The game being three years into development doesn't mean they are obligated to show gameplay and nothing about these hirings suggests that the development is having issues.

The very existence of this banner in public on it's own should have quenched any and all of these feelings that the project is in jeopardy. They will not show a trailer if the game is still 3 years off. They might rereveal the game this year if it's releasing next year though.

I don't get why you're worried nor why you think we should have gotten gameplay by now.