01-29-2019, 05:57 AM
Random: Looks Like Amazon Didn’t Get The Memo About Metroid Prime 4
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<p>Unless you’ve been fast asleep since last week, you’ve probably already heard the news that the development of <a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/games/nintendo-switch/metroid_prime_4"><strong>Metroid Prime 4</strong></a> is being entirely restarted. Nintendo issued <a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/01/metroid_prime_4_development_scrapped_will_be_restarted_alongside_retro_studios">an official statement</a> on the game’s progress last Friday, telling us that Retro Studios would now be working on the title and apologising for what will be a pretty lengthy delay.</p>
<p>With the game now being started over from the very beginning, we’d imagine it won’t see a release until <em>at</em> <em>least</em> 2021/22, and possibly a couple of years later still, but it would seem that not everyone has received this particular message. Despite being among the first to open up pre-orders for the game when it was first announced a couple of years ago, major worldwide retailer Amazon seems to be offering very mixed messages concerning the product’s release.</p>
<p>On the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Metroid-Prime-4-Nintendo-Switch/dp/B072JYMLT3/ref=sr_1_3?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1548675062&sr=1-3&th=1&tag=nlife-20" rel="nofollow" class="external">US version</a> of the site, Amazon still has the game listed under a generic 31st December 2019 release date, put in place in response to Nintendo’s original “2019” estimate with pre-orders still fully intact despite the product essentially being put on hold. Things get weirder still on the UK site, where the game has two separate listings – one saying that it will be released on <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Metroid-Prime-4-Nintendo-Switch/dp/B072JYMLT3/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1548676700&sr=8-1&tag=nlife-21" rel="nofollow" class="external">28th December 2018</a> (which has already been and gone, obviously) and another saying the year <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Metroid-Prime-4-Nintendo-Switch/dp/B0721792SH/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1548676700&sr=8-7&tag=nlife-21" rel="nofollow" class="external">2030</a>.</p>
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<p>Hopefully it goes without saying that any pre-orders made for Metroid Prime 4 will absolutely not be fulfilled by those dates (well, apart from the 2030 option we hope). It could be well over a year before Nintendo even talks about it again, so it might be best to ignore any purchasing options for now.</p>
<p><em>If you haven’t already, make sure to let us know how you feel about the Metroid Prime 4 delay on our <a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/01/talking_point_how_do_you_feel_about_the_metroid_prime_4_delay">Talking Point feature</a>. You can always leave us a quick comment below, too!</em></p>
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<p>Unless you’ve been fast asleep since last week, you’ve probably already heard the news that the development of <a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/games/nintendo-switch/metroid_prime_4"><strong>Metroid Prime 4</strong></a> is being entirely restarted. Nintendo issued <a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/01/metroid_prime_4_development_scrapped_will_be_restarted_alongside_retro_studios">an official statement</a> on the game’s progress last Friday, telling us that Retro Studios would now be working on the title and apologising for what will be a pretty lengthy delay.</p>
<p>With the game now being started over from the very beginning, we’d imagine it won’t see a release until <em>at</em> <em>least</em> 2021/22, and possibly a couple of years later still, but it would seem that not everyone has received this particular message. Despite being among the first to open up pre-orders for the game when it was first announced a couple of years ago, major worldwide retailer Amazon seems to be offering very mixed messages concerning the product’s release.</p>
<p>On the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Metroid-Prime-4-Nintendo-Switch/dp/B072JYMLT3/ref=sr_1_3?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1548675062&sr=1-3&th=1&tag=nlife-20" rel="nofollow" class="external">US version</a> of the site, Amazon still has the game listed under a generic 31st December 2019 release date, put in place in response to Nintendo’s original “2019” estimate with pre-orders still fully intact despite the product essentially being put on hold. Things get weirder still on the UK site, where the game has two separate listings – one saying that it will be released on <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Metroid-Prime-4-Nintendo-Switch/dp/B072JYMLT3/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1548676700&sr=8-1&tag=nlife-21" rel="nofollow" class="external">28th December 2018</a> (which has already been and gone, obviously) and another saying the year <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Metroid-Prime-4-Nintendo-Switch/dp/B0721792SH/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1548676700&sr=8-7&tag=nlife-21" rel="nofollow" class="external">2030</a>.</p>
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<p>Hopefully it goes without saying that any pre-orders made for Metroid Prime 4 will absolutely not be fulfilled by those dates (well, apart from the 2030 option we hope). It could be well over a year before Nintendo even talks about it again, so it might be best to ignore any purchasing options for now.</p>
<p><em>If you haven’t already, make sure to let us know how you feel about the Metroid Prime 4 delay on our <a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/01/talking_point_how_do_you_feel_about_the_metroid_prime_4_delay">Talking Point feature</a>. You can always leave us a quick comment below, too!</em></p>
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