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New Metroid Prime 4 footage has been shown, and the game looks like everything I’ve ever wanted. I’m not entirely sold on the whole “psychic powers” gimmick for Retro’s very-long-awaited fourth entry, but I’m excited to give it a shot.
Shown off during the latest Nintendo Direct, one thing is certain: Metroid Prime 4 is beautiful. Running on the original Nintendo Switch, Retro’s developers have obviously squeezed every last bit of juice out of the 2017 handheld to go above and beyond. I can hear the Tegra X1s screaming in their devkits from here.
With the Nintendo Switch 2 officially on the way and announced for this year, I have just one question: what does Metroid Prime 4 look like on the next-gen handheld?
Over the past few years, we’ve heard countless rumours about the new Nintendo Switch. It has magnetic joy-cons, it supports limited ray-tracing and some form of DLSS (still unconfirmed), and it plays most original Nintendo Switch games via backward compatibility.
But we still don’t know if Nintendo will be going the Xbox route with backwards compatibility, offering free resolution boosts, graphics updates and frame rate options. Will I have to buy a different copy of Metroid for Switch 2 or will I just be able to pop in my Switch 1 cart and get a handy visual facelift?
Hopefully we will find out what Nintendo’s plans are in this regard next week during the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct on April 2, 2025. But it’s an interesting question for a company that has always been more than happy to quickly pop out a new version of a game.
GameCube to Wii obviously had two versions of Twilight Princess, but also Pikmin, and two Metroid Prime games. Sure, they added motion controls and graphical updates, but you could already play them on the system.
In a world where we’re kind of done with buying remasters or two versions of a game across generations, I’m really hoping Nintendo is following suit. I want to simply pop in my Metroid Prime 4 cart into a Nintendo Switch 2 and play the game with a higher resolution and some boosted effects. If not, that’s fine, but don’t charge me for the privilege.
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