Metroid Prime 1 remaster reportedly coming this vacation, after years of rumors

It appears as if there have been rumors a couple of remake or remaster of Nintendo’s Metroid Prime trilogy for nearly so long as the unique video games have been out. Every so typically one particular person or one other will make a declare that the beloved collection is coming to Nintendo Switch. In 2020 it was a retailer saying it will be launched that 12 months. In 2021 it was an business insider suggesting {that a} remaster of the unique game was “clearly finished.”

Here in 2022, only a few months out from the 20-year anniversary of the primary Metroid Prime, the rumor comes from notable video games journalist Jeff Grubb. In dialog with Gamesbeat’s Rachel Caser on GiantBomb’s Game Mess Mornings show on Twitch, Grubb talked about that he was “told pretty definitively” {that a} remastered model of the primary Metroid Prime would arrive this 12 months. The game is allegedly as a consequence of be one in all Nintendo’s main vacation releases, most definitely to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the game in November.

Grubb went on to say that remasters of Metroid Prime 2 and three have been additionally within the works, although they wouldn’t be getting “quite the same overhaul as Metroid Prime 1 is getting.” On high of that, he claimed that, regardless of hopes and rumors of a 3-in-1 Metroid Prime Trilogy launch, Nintendo as a substitute seems to be planning to launch the remastered video games individually.

This newest rumor will little doubt give hope to these followers who’ve been angling for a re-release of the video games on the Switch, although the thought of getting to pay individually for every of the three video games won’t be fairly the information they have been hoping for. Regardless, Nintendo has issued no official assertion on the matter at current, so any extra concrete affirmation of Grubb’s claims is but to be forthcoming.