Metroid Prime 4 development restarts; Nintendo brings in Retro Studios

Nintendo released a video today explaining that development is restarting on Metroid Prime 4 for the Switch. Retro Studios, the Austin, Texas-based company that created the original Metroid Prime trilogy, is now working with Nintendo on the rebooted project.

Switch has been a huge sales success for Nintendo, and high-quality first-party games from established franchises like Mario, Zelda, and Super Smash Bros. has been a big key to the console’s success. Metroid Prime 4 could be another first-party hit that drives system sales, so the decision to restart development (which will cost Nintendo extra money and delay the game’s release for years) could not have been an easy one.