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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Rumor: Metroid Prime 4 Developed By Bandai Namco/Star Wars 1313 Studio + Ridge Racer 8 Switch Exclusive

I think it makes sense. Switch will have an exclusive racer, and Namco was rumoured to be working on MP4 before. It wouldn't surprise me. Also, I'd love that the Star Wars team makes an awesome, fantastic game to hit Disney in the face.



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LudicrousSpeed said:

Am I too late? Has anyone made the RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDGE RACERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR joke? Anyway, great news for Switch owners if true. The industry needs more AAA arcade racers imho. I’d buy RR Switch if it’s any good.

Nah, surprised that no one did. Actually nevermind two posts above you.

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Stefan.De.Machtige said:
Nintendo does have a habit in funding internal projects of other studios for any genre they might lack. It makes a lot of sense since it garantees exclusivity.

So why not fund Ridge racer 8 when they are already hiring Namco for another project?

I've honestly always liked that approach, it often results in games that really wouldn't have happened otherwise but the developers were passionately hoping to make.

It's certainly better than just chucking some money at a finished product to keep it for themselves; would be fun to see them do it more often.



How many times has Nintendo partnered with Bandai Namco? I've already lost count.

As for the guys of Star Wars 1313 being behind the new Metroid, they would be capable on the tech side for sure, but I'm not so sure about the gameplay. And I don't trust the Namco side of it either, as they worked on Other M...



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JEMC said:

How many times has Nintendo partnered with Bandai Namco? I've already lost count.

As for the guys of Star Wars 1313 being behind the new Metroid, they would be capable on the tech side for sure, but I'm not so sure about the gameplay. And I don't trust the Namco side of it either, as they worked on Other M...

Tecmo worked on OM not Namco, the flaws in OM were also Sakamoto's fault not Tecmo's.



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Bandorr said:
Keybladewielder said:

I wonder if the third exclusive is Tales. 

Edit: assuming the rumor is true.

Doubt it. Bandai has been opening up Tales to more platforms, not less.  Plus there is no way they would skip out on the users on PS and PC.

It makes sense if they're funding the game, and if they're bringing back a dead Ridge Racer franchise, is it really that far fetched? 



Mar1217 said:
flashfire926 said:
A new arcade racer? Sign me the fuck up.
This gen has been dire in terms of that genre. Nothing good except Forza Horizon, and even that's not even fully arcadey.

Have you recently prayedtoourlordandsaviorJesusinMarioKart8Deluxe ?

Yes, and its one of my favourite racing games of all time.

But thats more of a kart racer than an arcade racer, imo.



Bet with Intrinsic:

The Switch will outsell 3DS (based on VGchartz numbers), according to me, while Intrinsic thinks the opposite will hold true. One month avatar control for the loser's avatar.

TheWPCTraveler said:
I hope this is true, not because I want a bunch of Switch exclusives - only because I really really want to see what the Kaz Hirai parody account has to say with a Ridge Racer 8 Switch-exclusive.

It can be a timed exclusive for all I care, I just want to see his reaction.

Didn't the Kaz Hirai account announce they would stop posting on Twitter in 2018 ?

 

Imho this is real, we hear LOTS of rumors pointing at Bamco developing MP4 and none of them were proven fake, I think we'll se some gameplay at E3 at this point but I still expect th game to come out in 2019



Can't wait to see MP4!



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Wyrdness said:
JEMC said:

How many times has Nintendo partnered with Bandai Namco? I've already lost count.

As for the guys of Star Wars 1313 being behind the new Metroid, they would be capable on the tech side for sure, but I'm not so sure about the gameplay. And I don't trust the Namco side of it either, as they worked on Other M...

Tecmo worked on OM not Namco, the flaws in OM were also Sakamoto's fault not Tecmo's.

It was Tecmo? I always thought it was Namco. Oh, well, that's something I learned today.

And yeah Sakamoto was the main culprit of OM failures.



Please excuse my bad English.

Currently gaming on a PC with an i5-4670k@stock (for now), 16Gb RAM 1600 MHz and a GTX 1070

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