I'm still in shock that nintendo announced Prime 4 at e3 last year. It's insane to me that not only did nintendo continue the franchise but it's a new prime title. After the terrible sales of games like federation force and other m you would think they would've just given up on the franchise or just made smaller 2d games like Samus returns and even those would probably be regulated to third parties like mercury steam. But no they are making a new big 3D HD title that will take a lot of resources and time to make. Doing something like this with mario and zelda made sense but metroid the franchise that with each individial game sells less than a fourth of what a mainline Zelda and Mario game does is crazy. Also with the prime games they have been dipping in sales too (Prime 3 sold less than prime 1 despite being on the Wii Nintendo's best selling home console). If you asked me before e3 I would have never imagined Nintendo would do another big budget prime title but here we are. And at e3 2018 we are going to see this beauty in action most likely. But to be doing something like this Nintendo must really love the Metroid franchise or for some secret reason believe it will do really well.
