Fans holding out hope for any news about Metroid Prime 4 may have reasons to celebrate. Nintendo has added the title to the official Metroid home page, which notes that players will be able to “embark on a new mission coming to Nintendo Switch in 2025.”
The change to Metroid’s site was first spotted on Reddit by a user going by the name of Vasishath. It’s also sparked speculation that more news may come soon. It’s likely to be one of last AAA games on the Switch since Nintendo’s still unannounced Switch successor may also arrive in 2025. Fortunately, Nintendo has confirmed that the Switch 2 will be backwards compatible with Switch games.
Nintendo added Metroid Prime 4 to the Official Metroid Website.
Hopefully the 8 year wait will be worth it! pic.twitter.com/iB4Z7J8M1R— Stealth (@Stealth40k) November 20, 2024
The Metroid games follow bounty hunter Samus Aran on her adventures across the galaxy, but Metroid Prime was the series’ initial first-person shooter in 2002 on GameCube. A remastered version of Metroid Prime was released last year, but the most recent game in the series, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, arrived on the Wii when it was still relatively new in 2007.