[Art by Jorge M Velez]
Not a lot is known about the now-scrapped game that was once called Metroid Prime 4. Some rumors say it was being worked on by multiple teams across the globe, with Nintendo directing them towards a unified vision as best they could. Others claim that Nintendo was in direct partnership with Bandai Namco on the title, and that in the end, the development process just wasn’t working. We will probably get the real story eventually, but for now, the details on why the current work on the game was tossed and rebooted, now with Retro Studios in the mix, remain unknown.
One thing we do know for sure is that this is not the first time a Metroid game was shown off in one form or another before it disappeared. Here’s a short list of a few other known games in the series that were ghosted, scrapped, or drastically altered.
Source: Destructoid Metroid Prime 4 is one of many Metroid games to be reworked, rejected, or soft-canceled