Come on now, Nintendo. We’re going to need a firm decision on this one of these days. Is the Metroid Prime Trilogy release coming to the Switch at last, or is it not? The rumors are heating up yet again!
The Metroid franchise is one Nintendo’s greatest (yet most under-utilized) major IPs. All has been quiet on the Samus front since 2017’s Metroid: Samus Returns for Nintendo 3DS, and had been for quite sometime before that release. Titles such as the Wii’s Metroid: Other M (2010) and 3DS’s Metroid Prime: Federation Force (2016) fared poorly, with the former failing to do our heroine justice and the latter being a rather inconsequential spin-off.
All in all, long-time fans of the series are less than impressed with the way the property has been handled of late. They yearn for the days of the Metroid Prime trilogy, some of the very best entries ever.
The original Metroid Prime was released for the GameCube in 2002, presenting a very different perspective on Samus’s adventures: a first-person view that put the player directly behind the famed bounty hunter’s visor. As innovative as the game was, it remained true to that classic Metroid spirit of exploration and isolation, and spawned two successful sequels: Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. The three games were later re-released as Metroid Prime Trilogy in 2009, and it’s long been rumored that a further upgraded version of the package may be on its way to the Switch.
In January 2019, as we reported, a rumor was circulating that Switch version of the trilogy was already complete, but we haven’t seen hide nor hair of it since. Over this past weekend, Comic Book reports a listing for it appeared on Best Buy’s website, only to be unceremoniously removed. What does this mean? Is it really happening at last? Until we get any official word, we can only wait and hope. One thing’s for certain: it’s going to be a long wait for Metroid Prime 4, and this would go a long way to tiding fans over.