Metroid Prime 4 Dev Retro Studios is Hiring Engineers - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 March 2022 / 2,558 Views
Metroid Prime 4 developer Retro Studios via Twitter has announced two job openings for a Tools Engineer and Technology Engineer are available.
"We are looking for a Tools Engineer and a Technology Engineer to join us on our journey to develop Metroid Prime 4!" reads the tweet from Retro Studios.
Retro Studios has 10 job openings on the Nintendo careers page for the studio.
Metroid Prime 4 was first announced in 2017 and development on the game was restarted in 2019 by Retro Studios. After three years nothing has been heard on the game. The game is in development for the Nintendo Switch.
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— Retro Studios (@RetroStudios) January 27, 2022
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I expect that Metroid Prime 4 will be a cross-gen title like Breath of the Wild.
Honestly that seems possible at this point. I figured it'd come out mid to late 2023, but if they're still hiring for the team (unless it's like bringing in a few extra people to help the later part of development) I could see this game not coming out until 2024 and launching cross-gen at the successor's launch in spring or holiday 2024.
More and more job offers are coming out all the time... But how many people work at Retro Studios right now? Just Samus and the janitor?
Metroid 4 is quickly becoming "The Last Guardian" of the Nintendo world.
The funny thing is that news could come out today that it was being delayed for another 10 years and I would still be just as excited for another Metroid game.
-MOTHER BRAIN'D NINJA APPROVED-
It isn't Retro's fault that Nintendo took the lid off Metroid Prime 4 too soon. I'm also not sure it's entirely Nintendo's fault, either, as unveiling the title certainly confirmed to Nintendo loyalists that Nintendo was catering to core gamers on the Switch and probably did quite a bit to shore up the fanbase.
AAA games often have 5 year development cycles and we're only 3 years since the transition from what we assume was Bandai-Namco to Retro. I also know that most of us don't know what goes into gaming development, as far as the nuts and bolts of HR, so I'm pretty sure we don't have the best reads on what these two new hires actually mean. Now if there is someone around here that does know exactly what these hires do, what it means to be hiring them three years into the project, whether they are replacements for recently or soon to be vacated positions, by all means, make a thread and give us some education. I for one would greatly appreciate it.
In the meantime, I'm just happy that there is a future, be it on Switch, Switch 2, or both where we can play a truly next generation Metroid Prime game. I've got too much of a gaming backlog to worry about one game being made in the kitchen while I'm still not able to eat everything else that's already come out.
They really never stop hiring for that game. But my gut tells me they will show us... something, this year.
This is breath of the wild for Wii U all over again.
I have given up making excuses for Retro Studios and I am losing confidence in their ability to deliver another AAA game. At this point I will not get my hopes up anymore until we see something really significant. I have been reading articles about Retro Studios hiring engineers/supervisors/etc for the last 7 years and we haven't seen anything come from them since Tropical Freeze on the U. I thought back in 2019 that the drought might have been partially because Retro was supporting BotW/Odyssey behind the scenes, but that excuse doesn't hold water anymore. We have seen practically nothing, not even a trailer yet for Prime 4 and it has been 3 years since Nintendo announced that Retro would be taking over the project. Honestly, Nintendo probably knows full well that Prime 4 has gone sideways and that Retro isn't up to the task, which is why we were given a really decent 2D Metroid last year to fill the gap. Dread didn't feel like an appetizer for an upcoming 3D entry, it was probably the main course for Metroid on the Switch.
Probably everything You Said might be wrong. AAA games take more than three years to be déveloped. With Metroid being more realistic and less cartoonish than other Nintendo franchises, that will make the task harder and let's face it, it will need some wizardry to deliver something visually décent on the Switch. Y'all seem to have forgotten about botw développement cycle. And y'all Also seem to forget that Nintendo doesn't show anything unless it's almost ready to get launched. We didn't know about a 3D kirby ( which is something queit Big per se) until it was few months behind
from being released. Had it been another studio/firm, the game would have been hyped even at conception phases, being it the first 3D kirby game, coinciding with kirby's anniversary etc...
Concerning rétro's hirings, this one seems to be a replacement to another leaving ingeneer, or a one to help them out. But are You seriously thinking that the whole team with all the previous recruitements that happened since 2019, do You REALLY think that they stopped working or didn't even start the Work waiting for one ingeneer every six months? In an industry People
Come and go frequently. There are turnovers within companies and they deal with it. They dont throw projets that one started before leaving, the newcomer will carry on them and that's the way it goes.
To sum things up, there's no need to rush things. Metroid is a niche franchise so if the game will look and play like trash, sales won't compensate for that. People won't buy a broken Metroid game even among the hardcore fanbase. That's why i'd rather them taking their Time developing a solid game even if it skips Switch for technical limitations, rather than" meeting a promise" and Never get another Metroid Prime game forever.
Metroid Prime 1 (game cube) = 9 months in development
Metroid Prime 3 (wii) = 2 years in development
Metroid Prime 4 = 5 years in development and more..... 1? 2? Forever? No excuses.... this project looks like another "Raven Blade"
The development of this game must be too expensive and messy (by nintendo standards) for a franchise that sells so little.
I´m not excited about this game anymore.
I hope it's out next year.
