Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Launches for Switch 2 and Switch on December 4 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 12 September 2025 / 6,689 Views
Publisher Nintendo and developer Retro Studios have announced Metroid Prime 4: Beyond will launch for the Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch on December 4. The Switch 2 version is titled Metroid Prime 4: Beyond – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition.
View the release date trailer below:
Read details on the game below:
After an unexpected accident, Samus finds herself transported to the mysterious planet Viewros. Scan your surroundings for clues, make the most of your equipment and weapons, and use Samus’s newfound psychic abilities — and her technologically advanced bike, the Vi-O-La — to traverse and explore the environment. You’ll need every tool at your disposal to survive and escape Viewros.
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The bike is awesome! I wonder if you can Akira slide
Where's the dislike button?
In the toilet, swimming with my feelings (and bile) on the subject.
I think that's a wonderful analogy, actually. Well, outside of the sucking part. It doesn't suck at all. The only thing that sucks is watching people constantly swim out to sea with smiles on their faces, ignorantly unaware of their own psychology while the waves build and build. "You *** idiot!" they scream, sticking their middle fingers up while the shadows of the waves threaten. "Enjoy your stupid island!" When you're young, you think you can save them and it frustrates. When you get a little older, you learn you can't. It's sad.
He's too fucking high, that's how high.
Wanna come in? I got a nice CRT up here. A slew of great consoles and games. Gonna roast some marshmallows over a fire tonight and have some friends over. If your arms get tired, or you just don't care for the taste of saltwater anymore, there's always room among us. You're most welcome, friends!
love the vibes overall., only thing the graphics could be better
really excited for this. you are right, graphics could be better
It looks excellent in the more confined areas, but the open area reveals its roots as a Switch 1 title for sure.
Granted the only open area we've seen is a desert but still.
Remember. It runs 4K 60FPS or 1080P 120FPS. Which is pretty insane
She sorta did it in the trailer.
The trailer hints that you can do it, I think.
Graphics hold it back. This looks like something from 15 years ago.
Finally, someone making sense.
Sorry I just don't see that at all. God of war 3 looks nice in the big scripted set pieces, but the moment to moment gameplay doesn't look particularly good. The ps3 version also has a very unstable framerate. People always seem to use bullshots from GoW 3 when 99% of the game doesn't look like that.
The PS3 original is definitely kinda blurry for today standards, but the game does look pretty good. I don't know if you have it but if you boot it up now and play it a bit you'll see how good it still looks, Kratos model looks great, the backgrounds mostly as well, and boss fights like Poseidon and Hades early on have some really impressive stuff if you wanna try it.
Metroid Prime 4 definitely has many tech edges on it, but it also has some pretty simple geometry and textures on the world, based on the last trailer. I don't think it looks bad, but it looks bland and dated, but art direction can elevate it a lot in more interesting scenarios the game might have. For example Journey was an indie game from 2012 (I hope I'm not wrong) and compare how the sand looks there and in the sand area from Prime 4 last trailer. Art direction can do wonders to a game, so Prime 4 may look a lot better in some areas too.
Did you even play metroid prime remake? Even on the switch it looked good.
