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Metroid Prime 4: Beyond- what console are these graphics running on? (Nintendo)

Nintendo has finally shown off Metroid Prime 4 and while it has an unexpected cameo it won’t be out until next year, which is highly suspicious.

Metroid Prime 4 was first announced exactly seven years ago, but two years later Nintendo had to admit that it wasn’t going well and that everything had been scrapped and development handed over to Retro Studios, who worked on the original (although by that time many of their veteran staff had moved on).

At no point was anything shown of the game and while there’s been much speculation amongst fans, as to whether it is being held over for the new Switch 2 console, Nintendo has given no indication that’s the case.

They still haven’t, but rather than being this Christmas’ big new game the reveal trailer during the June Nintendo Direct shows that it’s not going to be out until next year – which makes it very likely it’ll be a cross-gen release.

Given how good the graphics look there are already conspiracy theories suggesting the footage is running on a Switch 2. However, given there’s still little clue as to how much more powerful the new console will be that’s hard to say – but we wouldn’t have said there was anything in the trailer the Switch 1 couldn’t do.

Nintendo said ahead of time that they wouldn’t be talking about their new console during the Nintendo Direct, and they didn’t, but Metroid Prime 4 was the last reveal of the showcase and the only first party title not coming out until 2025.

In terms of the trailer itself, it showed series heroine Samus Aran battling generic space pirates before it’s revealed that they’re being led by the bounty hunter Sylux from Metroid Prime 3, who appears to have two Metroids under his control.

Sylux is a fairly deep cut, and many probably won’t recognise him, so it’s not clear if he’s the game’s main antagonist or just a little Easter eggs for fans.

If he is a prominent part of the game then it’s peculiar that the long-rumoured remaster of Metroid Prime 3 (and 2) still hasn’t been announced, especially given how popular the remaster of the first game was.

In fact, there was only one Nintendo remaster during the Direct, in Wii game Donkey Kong Country Returns. That’s despite ports of Zelda: Twilight Princess and The Wind Waker seeming almost like shoe-ins.

It’s never a good idea to try and predict Nintendo though and whatever fan theories emerge from this trailer they’ll probably be disproven the next time Nintendo talks about the game… whenever that might be.

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond- Sylux was a bit of a surprise (Nintendo)

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