Slownenberg said:
lol I'm sure MK9 will be a launch title for next gen, or at least come out within a few weeks of launch. Nothing else would make sense. Probably 3D Mario and Prime 4 on launch day, MK9 a month later. Probably something like that (if indeed Prime 4 has been moved off the Switch and to next gen which is sorta seems like at this point). To Soundwave: Not sure if we'll see cross-gen titles. We got cross gen GC/Wii and WiiU/Switch but those systems were spec'd fairly similarly so those zelda cross gen games could just be ports. To do a cross gen game between Switch and next gen obviously gamers would want a complete graphics overhaul for the next gen version. Makes cross gen games seem less likely. Especially for something like Prime 4 where you want top notch graphics. I don't really see Nintendo building two completely separate graphical versions of Prime 4 (or any game) in order to make it cross gen. So I don't expect any cross gen games. I think Prime 4 will either be the last big AAA Switch game, or much more likely a launch game on Switch 2 and that is probably the reason it still hasn't come out yet, or even announced anything about it yet, because at some point they switched over from making a Switch game to making a next gen game. And considering Metroid games don't sell that well anyway, it's not like missing out on the Switch userbase would be devastating for the game. It's not like 10 million people are gonna buy it on Switch haha. And being one of the few major AAA Nintendo games available on the next gen system in the first year will give it plenty of focus for gamers to pick it up. Maybe Nintendo surprises and does two completely different graphical builds for the game so that it can be cross gen, but I doubt it. Also having it on Switch 2 only just gives people (well, at least the few million, or couple million, Metroid fans) more of a reason to buy the new system. |
There's no way that Prime 4 won't release on Switch, they promised it was going to release for Switch way back in 2017 and there may have been a good portion of people who purchased a Switch primarily for Metroid Prime 4, people would be pissed if they were promised for around 7 years that prime 4 was coming to Switch just for them to switch it over to Switch 2 exclusively. Nintendo has never done that in their history where they publically announced a game for a platform just for them to not bring it.
Nintendo could've easily just made Zelda BOTW exclusive to Switch since it was clear the Wii U was going to be a failure and it would be better to just use the game to convince people to exclusively get it on Switch, but they didn't because they didn't want to piss of Wii U owners who purchased the system just for that game and they likely already finished a ton of development for Wii U to the point where they didn't want to drop it completely.
Same goes for Prime 4, Retro definetely begun development with this game with the Switch in mind first since it was still promised it was coming to Switch in 2019, even if they wanted to switch development to Switch 2, it wouldn't make sense to drop all the work you did on the Switch version.
