With a devoted Metroid Prime artwork ebook releasing subsequent 12 months, rumours of a Metroid Prime 2 remaster have returned.
It’s been over a 12 months since Metroid Prime Remastered shadow-dropped onto Nintendo Switch. Yet regardless of respected claims its two sequels would comply with swimsuit, Nintendo hasn’t stated something about both of them.
It would make sense for Nintendo to have the entire Metroid Prime trilogy out earlier than Metroid Prime 4, so followers new and outdated may make amends for the story, however that window’s solely getting smaller now we all know the long-awaited fourth entry is out in 2025.
Knowing Nintendo, it may simply announce and launch each video games on a random Thursday or one thing, however a brand new hearsay making the rounds claims to know when Metroid Prime 2’s remaster will drop.
This hearsay comes courtesy of self-proclaimed insider Samus Hunter. While they by no means was once dependable, their observe report has tremendously improved of late, having predicted reveals for Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition and Super Nintendo World’s Donkey Kong Country growth.
Samus Hunter is claiming that the Metroid Prime 2 remaster can be out in early 2025, predicting that it’s going to land between Donkey Kong Country Returns HD and Xenoblade Chronicles X.
With the previous arriving in January and the latter in March, this could put Metroid Prime 2 squarely in February. Even if that is an informed guess, it might make sense. Nintendo at the moment has no first get together releases that month and February was additionally when it launched Metroid Prime Remastered.
Nintendo appears to be padding out the Switch’s 2025 launch schedule with remasters and re-releases, because it prepares for the Switch 2. While we nonetheless do not know when the brand new console can be correctly introduced, all indicators level to it launching in 2025.
Samus Hunter has additionally gone so far as to recommend Metroid Prime 3’s remaster might be out by subsequent summer season. To assist this they level to an official art book for the Metroid Prime trilogy, that has simply been introduced for a summer season 2025 launch.
‘I’m trying ahead to replay your entire trilogy on the Switch earlier than that [sic],’ they stated on X.
At the very least, the artwork ebook’s launch is clearly meant to tie in with Metroid Prime 4, probably as a promotional software to hype up the sport.
While diehard followers will lap it up regardless, you’d assume the most effective time to focus on paintings and behind the scenes data for the trilogy can be when all three video games are available, and plainly may properly be what’s taking place.
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