 Hey, before we get into this video, I want to try something new here. I want to do a comment question of the day. So it's kind of where I'm just going to ask you guys a question and you guys go on the comments and give me an answer. It's a way to create some interaction and who knows, maybe in future videos, I will feature one of my favorite comments for that question in the next video. So that's something that might be pretty neat. So the comment question of the day is, how badly do you want to Switch Pro? So today I have a bit of a double edged sword for you guys when it comes to Metroid Prime for a game that was announced for Switch back in 2017. But we obviously know earlier this year, they basically scrapped and started over again or at least that's what was announced to us, some of us presume that maybe retro studios have been working on it as soon as mid to late 2018. There was a different studio heading it up, rumored to be Bandai Namco. We never really got confirmation on that and that the game was originally split up between all these different development companies and then Nintendo didn't like what was happening and so they retro studios pitched to them and Nintendo accepted the pitch and they scrapped and restarted the game from scratch. Now we obviously are doing a lot of guesswork in terms of the timeline for Metroid Prime and when retro studios began development on it but now we have a new hire by retro studios which is actually really good news and this is where I talk about how this is actually an excellent hire for the game and it's someone who's a veteran in the industry who is going to really help the design choices inside Metroid Prime but it also because of who they're hiring and who this person is and what they're doing for retro studios and also let us know that Metroid Prime 4 is a long ways away and kind of might fluff some of the rumors that have been floating around all year that some people at retro studios found out they were making Metroid Prime 4 at the same time the public did. That's pretty interesting. So who did retro studios hire? They hired Kyle Heffley. He is a veteran Halo creator who was their lead character artist so he would do the Master Chief designs, a whole bunch of different modeling, a whole bunch of things in Halo basically. He's also worked on Call of Duty Black Ops and Sleeping Dogs. He's worked on about 20 titles in his 9 years at Microsoft and 343 Studios, Halo 4, Halo 5, Halo Infinite, Halo 5's Master Chief, all that stuff. He's worked on a whole bunch of stuff, obviously Halo Infinite's not even out yet so his designs are everywhere and a lot of people have looked at his designs over the years and really said that it really had like a more Metroid kind of feel to his designs and that obviously would make him an excellent fit for Metroid Prime 4 so that's probably why he was hired. Nobody really knew obviously that he was even looking for new work but whatever he left Microsoft and 343 Studios and all that to join Retro Studios, I got a pretty decent offer from Nintendo to do that. Now what's interesting about this as you're seeing some of his work on screen so you have an idea of his style of designs although obviously that was created for Halo, his style could be slightly different for Metroid Prime, we have no idea what he's looking at for Metroid designs. What's interesting is that basically since it was publicly announced that Retro Studios was making Metroid Prime 4, their jobs page was updated on the official Retro Studios website and even to this day they're still advertising for things like an art director or an environment designer and more and these are really basic level employees that are needed to get a game off the ground and this is why this person being hired, you know this Kyle Hefley being hired as an art director for the game is very interesting for the progress of Metroid Prime 4 and it definitely makes it feel like Metroid Prime 4 is an extremely early development. I mean we're talking likely not even seeing a teaser trailer in 2020 kind of early development. We're talking might not even release on Nintendo Switch type of early development. We're looking you know at least based on a typical AAA advancement level of 3-4 years of development you know we're looking 2022 potentially at the earliest maybe 2023 could be a cross gen game with Switch and whatever the next system is kind of like Breath of the Wild was or who knows maybe they'll get it done in two years and get it out but I highly doubt that when they're still hiring like an art director this you know early or I guess late in the game again it was announced in 2017 it lets you know that yeah they probably didn't start work on Metroid Prime 4 seriously until this year and maybe not even at the time it was announced Retro Studios was doing it they might not even gone in the full development until after that announcement so this obviously makes the question what the hell has Retro Studios been working on you know for all these years since Tropical Freeze basically and we know they helped out a little bit with the Tropical Freeze port on Switch but it's one of those things where we're always left wondering and there was that rumored Star Fox racing game or something that maybe they were working on and apparently even before that another game that Retro Studios was working on they got canned or if not canned at least shelved because it wasn't coming together as well as they hoped and obviously we know Retro Studios is the one that did make Metroid Prime 1, 2 and 3 all three games considered to be pretty excellent no matter which way you want to rank them they're why they considered some of the best Metroid games in the series the original Metroid Prime being the best-selling Metroid game of all times so that's something to take into consideration as well and why Nintendo wouldn't want to even make a Metroid Prime 4 after all these years because hey it's the best-selling Metroid ever been has been as the Prime series so some people have commented you know about whether Retro Studios should even do Metroid Prime because a lot of people have left the you know Retro Studios over the years but according to video games chronicle.com who did the reporting on the hire they did some research on it and found out that around half of the full-time developers who worked on Metroid Prime 3 are actually still at Retro Studios so they did lose half the team which is a pretty a pretty big loss but it's also been a long time so they still have half the team that actually made those games so great obviously needing some more art directors and a bunch of other things you know on their jobs page so it's pretty interesting that they had they had about 50 people I guess working on Metroid Prime 3 back in the Wii days and about 27 so a little over half I guess remain you know at the company which is located in Texas so they had four contractors at the time I guess they were working on Metroid Prime that they made permanent employees as well so five of Metroid Prime 3's 11 designers were actually still at Retro so they had 11 designers on Metroid Prime 3 five of them are still there and they're likely working on Metroid Prime 4 again we haven't really seen anything out of Retro Studios since Donkey Kong tropical freeze so it would make a lot of sense if they pretty much have their full team working on this right now I mean they might have a straight employee here or there working on whatever project they were working on before they took this on but I think that's pretty reasonable that we're going to see the Metroid Prime team beefed to 50 plus more you know because now they're doing games in HD and I think the one thing Nintendo has learned in making games in HD you know the past handful of years is that they need bigger teams if they want to get these games done within an even a typical three to four year window for a triple A game they need bigger teams so it's not surprising that Retro Studios has been really hiring people all year but again we haven't talked about a lot of those hires because this is the one hire that actually gives us a hint at how early in development Metroid Prime is because you have an art director usually there day one and the fact that they're hiring one right now and a granted of industry an industry veteran that is well suited for the job lets you know it's going to be a while so it's kind of a double-edged sword in that hey look you know what this guy's really damn good at his job look at his designs they are something that are impressive and definitely warrant him being hired by Retro Studios but it's also hey look their hire art director now the games very early in development so we'll have to see what happens with Metroid Prime 4 over time i know it's a bit of sad news to consider that it might not be switch exclusive or even on switch at all but i don't know i'm honestly okay with this news i i'm someone that believes that i would rather wait you know years and years and years and get a great game than get a game coming out that just isn't ready for prime time you know we saw this with Assassin's Creed and some of the Call of Duty games over the years where they rush out a new thing every year we've seen it now i mean wwe that that series has from by 2k is just tanked it went from a high quality wrestling game to i mean it's it's complete garbage now and you shouldn't even spend a dollar on that game let alone 60 and we don't want to see Metroid get deteriorated in this way and i you know the last time we really got a Metroid game was that was kind of a spin-off title that was linked to the prime series so i i fully believe that it's going to be worth the wait and that Metroid Prime 4 is going to be absolutely incredible but it is you know another one of those games where we're just not likely seeing anything else you know the last taste of Metroid we got is a mainline game i think was other m back on the we so that that that kind of with the sour taste in some people's mouths i think that game is a little underrated personally i really enjoyed it i think the cutscenes are are are where people have people have a lot of issues i i haven't seen a lot of people actually complain about the gameplay in that game but the cutscenes i gotta admit they're pretty bad uh the voice acting is pretty bad uh i don't think it's as bad as people might get out to be but it's still pretty bad um but uh sans those cutscenes i think the game itself the core gameplay is fine so i'm i'm excited to see what happens with Metroid Prime 4 going back to a first person perspective like the rest of the prime series and i'm excited by this hire kyle heffley is a industry veteran that is is going to breathe some life into Metroid Prime as its first true HD entry i'm i'm excited and i'm hoping that this does lead to that i guess remember there was a rumored Metroid Prime Trilogy HD collection thing that's supposedly been done since you know ready to launch in 2018 but they delayed it because Metroid Prime 4 has been delayed i'm very curious on if that trilogy will ever come out on uh on switch we know it's it's been released you know back on we as a collection but uh we didn't see it on we you and also if Metroid Prime 4 doesn't ever launch on switch that would be two straight console generations without a brand new Metroid game which is is pretty interesting uh for that series considering how popular well i won't really say popular Metroid Metroid it's never really been a super popular series if we're honest with ourselves you know before the prime series came along the best selling game was over a couple million uh it was interesting they kept making Metroid games despite the fact they weren't like big sellers and it's not like Kirby where like they put out a Kirby game every year it sells like a million or two and then they're happy with that because Kirby doesn't cost much money to develop uh these prime games especially you know they they take high budgets it's made in the west you know it's not a bunch of employees you know that Nintendo always keeps a lot of more contract employees and all that stuff so i i'm honestly excited to see what happens to Metroid Prime 4 i actually want to know what you guys think about Metroid Prime 4 as well you excited that Retro Studios is back at the helm are you excited by this hire are you disappointed it's going to be a long wait or do you think like me you know what great games are worth the wait no matter what platform they end up on i'm a bit platform agnostic when it comes to great games i obviously want all the great games to be on my preferred to play platform like a switch or a pc but obviously that's not always the case i care more that the game itself ends up being all that it can be more so than carrying exactly which platform or which um you know system on a pc whether it's like origin or whatever that you need to buy your game through i care less about that and i care more about the high qualityness of the game lots of great games hopefully coming this year luigi's matching three here in a couple days on halloween that should be fantastic obviously we have the new star wars game coming out that looks promising anyways there's also that lego star wars game the luke skywalker saga that's looking fantastic as well psycho nuts too next year and a whole bunch of stuff like i'm pretty excited for the direction that gaming is going in sands the microtransactions and and some of the practices going on with some companies yeah um it's really not even a two k is doing a lot of companies are doing it now but yeah i'm excited uh for this game and i want to know what you guys think down in the comments below i am tanya rumpel jance from nintendo prime owner thank you so much for tuning into this video uh for those wondering why i haven't been on camera lately i have been sick actually i've been sick for uh a couple weeks you guys don't hear in the editing because i carl all my all my hacking up my lungs and all that but it's just a cold it's been lingering lingering for a little bit now uh and i just don't feel like i look well enough in camera uh look a little pale and all that and i don't want the comment section to be all about how sick i am so uh hopefully you've been enjoying this game this gameplay and and still images and stuff voiceover i i guess looking back on my channel i used to do a lot of these uh really back in 2017 so i don't know i i don't know the viewership's affected one way or the other whether i'm on camera or not i i do enjoy being on camera but uh we'll get back to that when i'm feeling a little better otherwise thank you so much for tuning in like this video subscribe for more content and i'll catch you in the next one