We had some shocking news at the start of 2019 stating that Metroid Prime 4‘s development was being completely restarted. The concept and ideas the team at Bandai Namco had been working on for quite some time had been canned and the project started afresh. It now appears as though Nintendo could be speeding up development of Retro Studio’s game by outsourcing the environment work to another developer, which is quite common. This news was discovered by YouTuber Doctre81 via a job posting.

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