{"id":2780,"date":"2025-03-27T15:59:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T16:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2025-03-27T18:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:21:15","slug":"the-new-metroid-prime-4-trailer-has-the-best-switch-graphics-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/the-new-metroid-prime-4-trailer-has-the-best-switch-graphics-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The new Metroid Prime 4 trailer has the best Switch graphics ever"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is the newly revealed box art for the game (Nintendo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A new trailer for Metroid Prime 4 has revealed the first details of the plot and some new gameplay mechanics, but not whether there\u2019ll be a native Switch 2<\/a> version.<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s Nintendo Direct, for the original Switch, was strange for any number of reasons, not least because that the long-anticipated Switch 2 Direct<\/a> is only next week. That and the fact that the most notable new announcements were two former PlayStation exclusives coming to Switch<\/a> and the return of two super obscure Nintendo franchises<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If there was one game that was almost certain to be featured though it was Metroid Prime 4: Beyond<\/a>, which many suspect will be a launch title for the Switch 2 – if only via backwards compatibility.<\/p>\n

The Nintendo Direct did nothing to discredit that theory, as the game still doesn\u2019t have a release date, just sometime this year. But there\u2019s still no hint of whether it will have a dedicated Switch 2 version, as well as a Switch 1 edition.<\/p>\n

It was the Switch 1 version that was apparently being shown in the new trailer, but the graphics looked so good many suspect, just as they did with the debut trailer, that it\u2019s really Switch 2 footage.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s presumably not the case – Nintendo is very unlikely to outright lie about such a thing – but the game look considerably better than any other Switch title, including the likes of Luigi\u2019s Mansion 3.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s possible the footage being shown is the Switch 2 playing the Switch 1 version, and adding some enhancements on top but, again, if that was the case Nintendo would probably just say so.<\/p>\n

Apart from looking amazing, the main thing to be discerned from the trailer is that the plot of the game involves Samus being trapped on the jungle planet of Viewros. The previous trailer clearly showed space pirates, and rival bounty hunter Sylux, but in this one it was just angry alien lifeforms.<\/p>\n

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