Rumors are a huge thing in the gaming industry, and to me, it’s really annoying when people keep saying the same ones repeatedly with no proof that they’re coming anytime soon. Then, when they DON’T always happen, they try to blame the developers or publishers and not themselves for having bad intel. One such example was when Retro Studios was allegedly making Metroid Prime Remastered, and the trilogy for the whole line was long rumored for the Nintendo Switch. It was THE most prominent rumor in certain circles for a long time, when many even insisted that “it was done” and Nintendo just had to release it. Except that wasn’t the case, and it was only the first game getting made.
Don’t get me wrong, the remaster was lauded for upgrading things in a nice way while keeping what made the game fun intact. In the recently released Metroid Prime 1–3: A Visual Retrospective, as noted by Nintendo Everything, Retro Studios revealed that various elements led to the remaster taking a much longer time to get out than gamers had hoped:
And that was just for the FIRST game in the trilogy; the next two titles were arguably far more...
