 Well, good old Jeffrey Grubb is at it again. Well, okay, maybe we shouldn't start that way, although that is where this rumor is coming from. You're gonna have to strap in. He's just talking about how confident he is in Metroid Prime 4 coming this year. We're gonna get into that because look, we obviously have the Nintendo Direct Partner showcase today and this isn't gonna be a video going over all the announcements. I'm not one of those people that likes to do recap videos on Direct, so we're already live reacting to and look, honestly, by the time the recap video would come out, you guys could just watch the Direct. It's 25 minutes long, so it's not even that long and just go watch it yourselves, right? Or go watch our reaction to it. That being said, what I wanna focus on today is actually something that happened during the Direct because as all of us content creators and news outlets and everything are out there live reacting to these Directs, sometimes things are said and things are said in interesting ways. Now, one game that was a complete surprise that P.R.O. did not leak for this same Direct is Epic Mickey ReBrushed. Now, look, I really enjoyed Epic Mickey back in the day. I realized it's only a game that scored down in the 70s and some people had some issues with the controls. They were a little wonky back then. Of course, we're talking Wii era stuff here, so I totally understand, but honestly, I really enjoyed the game. I love the concept of it. I felt there was some really good level designs. The boss fights were really engaging. Yeah, I could have used some polish around the edges and obviously we're hoping that Epic Mickey ReBrush has that polish around the edges today. But this isn't really about that game, but this game needs to be brought up because Jeff Grubbs said this on their live reaction on Giant Bomb. You're right, I just could see the pixels and stuff because it's a Switch game. I'm being unfair. It's no looks though. It's no looks though. It's no Marley is a remaster of a week in here. Like I will say that this being confirmed gives me more confidence that we'll get Metroid Prime for this year. Look at this. Yeah, that's related. Yes, it is because that's why I got the rumor from the same place. So there you have it. Really short and sweet. Jeff Grubbs said he has source or sources. He doesn't really clarify, but he had heard about Epic Mickey ReBrush and just kind of forgot to say anything about it maybe because he wasn't that excited. And all of a sudden that particular source has apparently told him about Metroid Prime 4 coming out this year, which is quite fascinating because if you pair this in with all the Switch 2 delays that would make it sound like maybe this holiday season or some point this year, we have Metroid Prime 4 coming along with some sort of thing from Pokemon. Now we have Pokemon Presents next week on February 27th. So we'll speculate about that stuff tonight on the Nintendo Prime podcast. But what I really want to focus on right now is this idea of Metroid Prime 4 coming this year. Look, Metroid Prime 4 was announced all the way back in 2017, which is awesome. I actually, you know, it was really neat announcement. It was something that made a lot of Metroid fans really excited coming off of the Metroid Samus Return stuff and well, Prime Federation Force, let's be honest. It really made people get kind of mad at Nintendo. So here we are with, Hey, here's Metroid Prime 4 and it's coming. And then you fast forward, you know, into spring or really not even spring, super early in 2019. And all of a sudden, hey, we're delaying this game because we have Switch development partners and Retro Studios is not gonna be making the game. That's really cool. We've heard a lot of rumors and reports around how that happened and maybe it was Bandai Namco and I don't really understand all of the ins and outs because this is all behind the scenes stuff that we can't confirm. Or what I do find fascinating is obviously that that was all the way back in 2019 and we're in 2024. And this, again, that means that this game is being developed primarily during the heart of the Nintendo Switch era. But at the timing of its release, it might make more sense to actually delay the game and put it on Nintendo Switch too. Now we've had other things crop up over time, including the fact that we know the games at least been in testing and polishing phases since March of last year, because they hired somebody who literally in their profile said they were working on polishing Metroid Prime 4 at Retro Studios on LinkedIn. So we already have evidence that, hey, look, this is the thing that's been happening. It's been in game testing, yada, yada. So look, the game's probably done, right? Metroid Prime 4 is at least, if not done, it's in a state where it's probably much more polished than most AAA games that come out, to be honest. And a lot of us just figured maybe this will be a dual release at this point for Switch and Switch 2. So you get it at the same time on both platforms. They've done this before with Twilight Princess, did it before Breath of the Wild and others. So yeah, maybe this will just be a cross-generation title, but then Switch 2 gets delayed out of this year and then people start to wonder, well, could Metroid Prime 4 actually still come this year? Now they gave us Metroid Prime remastered last year. It's a great-looking remaster and really sets the bar pretty high for what Metroid Prime 4 is gonna bring from a visual and gameplay perspective. Metroid Prime 4 is widely considered one of, if not the best Metroid game ever made. So I find all of this just to be fascinating when you throw it all together and think about, could Metroid Prime 4 come this year? Again, this is just a rumor. I don't know if Jeff Grubbs is correct. Look, Jeff Grubbs obviously was correct that Metroid Prime remastered existed and that Metroid Prime remaster was like a big deal remaster. Like it wasn't just a fresh coat of paint. They actually put some real work into it. And while he was wrong on it coming out in 2022, it literally came out two months into 2023 as a shadow drop. So look, we can give him some flak for getting it wrong on when it was gonna come out, but also gotta give him some credit on what he said about the game and the kind of remaster it was going to be and that it even existed at all and was ready because clearly two months into 2023, it didn't suddenly get more ready. They shadow dropped the damn thing. Look, they usually announced games before shadow dropping. So I was obviously ready to go. Nintendo just for some reason wanted to shadow drop it after the holidays. And when we look at Metroid Prime 4 situation where we haven't even seen the game, right? We have a logo. There's a piece of art floating around with Retro Studios that they put out years ago. But look, we don't have any real new information. The information we do get is a lot of speculation based on hiring posts, based on companies they're working with. Like I know, Super Metal Day 64 dropped a new video recently with some news and stuff around Metroid Prime 4, all the stuff we're talking about with Metroid Prime 4 is still all hypothetical. Like yes, it comes from hiring posts. Yes, it comes from employee profiles. But that's what we're resorting to because we haven't seen this damn thing. We don't know anything about Metroid Prime 4 truly. Like now, like Super Metal Day floated out there that it might be on Unreal Engine and that's really cool if it is but I just don't understand why we haven't seen this game yet. So I find it fascinating that if they're going to show it this year, maybe it's at the next Nintendo Direct, which is, again, we have one rumored for April from the same person who started all the stuff about it being delayed to 2025. And I understand some people hate the word delay. It was never publicly announced. It was never publicly announced. It's going to really be delayed. Internal delays are a thing. I know this because I've had internal content delays myself. So without you guys even knowing anything publicly, so if I'm having internal delays at times as a content creator, what do you think a game development studio is doing? They always have targets and miss those targets and internally delay things. Anyways, the point is, whether or not Switch 2 comes out this year or next year, he seems to be saying that, hey, my source on this was 100% correct and seems like a more recent source since Jeff Grubb is saying that he really does believe that Metroid Prime 4 is going to come out this year. So why does this leave me go to Nintendo Prime? Well, it leaves me much in the same place I was before the video started. I wanted Metroid Prime 4 to come this year. Then I was like, man, maybe they should hold off for Switch 2 because it should be a cross-gen release but then man, Switch as a really light lineup so far even after the partner direct as awesome as it is, endless ocean and everything else, it's still not like a super exciting lineup, right? It feels like a lot of filler games which is mostly what a lot of reports that we're gonna be getting this year are a bunch of filler kind of titles and Metroid Prime 4 is not a filler title. At least I'll never view it as a filler title even if it only goes on to sell 3 million copies like Metroid Dread did. I still can't feel like that's a filler title to me. I don't know, I understand sales-wise it can feel like a filler title. Metroid have never been like mega sellers. I just, you know, a game has been in development this long. I just can't find that to be a filler title and that's why I think it might be best served to do a dual release on Switch 2. But again, you know, at some point you just gotta release games that are ready and Switch could use some games this year. So Metroid Prime 4, maybe they're just gonna launch it now get an enhanced version later on Switch 2 and call it a day. Maybe Switch 2 will even be announced before they announced Metroid Prime 4 for this year. That's entirely possible. And then they're already letting us know that like, hey, if you buy this on Switch, don't worry. Backwards compatibility upgrade with Switch 2. You get the enhanced version for free. I don't know, I'm just throwing ideas out there. I don't know what's gonna happen. You let me know what you think about this down in the comments below and I'll catch you in the next video.