Okay, I avoided to watch many videos about Metroid Prime 4 because I want to avoid all spoilers possible. Today a video from Nintendo appeared in my Youtube timeline and I clicked to watch at 4k 60fps (I just watched because my right eye is hurting and I wanted to kill sometime). The game looks amazing at 4k 60fps, and I think Metroid Prime 4 is the best Nintendo game I've ever seen.

I planned to buy a Switch 2 just in 2026, because I want to play Duskbloods, but now I think I'll buy sooner than expected.

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i play almost entirely Nintendo, and have avoid watching gameplay up until now…that is quite impressive. Wow!! Seeing Samus in 4k is unreal.

It looks amazing even at 720P on the OG Switch.

They really dialed in the Halo 4-esque art which absolutely scales wonderfully up and down, can't wait to get my hands on it.

For my money it takes the cake as the best looking Switch 1 game ever made, and thanks to its art direction it scales up beautifully to Switch 2.

Been waiting for this one since 2007 and it looks like it's gonna be brilliant.

The fact it arbors most of it's DNA with the Switch in itself makes the noticeable upgrade of the Switch 2 version more smooth and awesome than I expected as well. I really have to see that handheld 720p 120fps they spoke of.

Eh Halo 4 was more Prime art since it had former Retro Studios artists working on it. Prime 4 is just keeping to the series look.

Prime 4 is very Halo 4-esque, no denying that... With it's baked details and dramatic fog and coloured lighting glow effects.
And that is why it scales so well even on low-end hardware like in the Switch 2.

The metroid remaster still looks amazing in the switch

The 3D metroid games always seem to punch well above their hardware spec thanks to the amazing coders of the studio behind it. I guess some of the video at the beginning was pre-rendered and that was the most impressive bit but you used to get that on PS3 as well thanks to its huge amount of optical storage. You would get an amazing 1080p pre-rendered sequence with 7.1 surround sound and then into the game not so great (depending on game). I've never thought of Metroid games as realistic graphics more focused on beautiful graphics within the spec of the hardware. I still feel the original PS4 punches above this in its very best titles visually technically. I'm certainly not saying the PS4 is as capable as Switch 2 though just its very best titles which have very high levels of optimisation look nicer. I don't think this Metroid title will be anywhere near the pinnacle of what the Switch 2 will achieve over its lifetime. This is ultimately a cleaned up and higher frame rate and higher resolution version of an original Switch title.

Retro has always had insanely talented artists and technicians, which is why the original Prime trilogy still holds up today better than 99% of Gamecube/Wii games, and why Prime Remastered can hold its own in the modern age even against hardware that's about 30 times more powerful.