Nintendohas confirmed thatMetroid Prime 4: BeyondandPokemon Legends: Z-Awill still launch in 2025 and won’t face any delays, even though both games still lack a solid release date.
The status of Metroid Prime 4 and Pokemon Legends: Z-A is something fans have been unsure about for a while now, even though they’re set to be two of the biggestNintendo Switch exclusivesof 2025.
Metroid Prime 4 was announcedin 2017 and only received a proper trailer in 2024, meaning fans are primed for more delays. Meanwhile, Pokemon Legends: Z-A was announced on Pokemon Day 2024, and there haven’t been any updates since.
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Thankfully, inNintendo’s January 2025financial quarter report for investors, the company confirmed that both Metroid Prime 4 and Pokemon Legends: Z-A will launch in 2025.
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Pokemon fans only learned aboutLegends: Z-A a year ago, so a delay for that title wouldn’t be the end of the world. It’s more that the franchise has faced a huge content drought, with the mobile games doing a lot of heavy lifting.
Metroid fans have suffered far more, considering the ridiculous production length of the long-awaited fourth Prime game. No one who saw that first teaser in 2017 expected they’d be waiting nearly a decade to play Samus’ next first-person adventure.
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The big question now is whether these games will have native ports on theNintendo Switch 2 hardwareor if they will be backward-compatible titles that function the same as they do on the old system.
Nintendo is going to be promoting its latest console a lot in 2025, but that doesn’t mean the old Switch will be left at the wayside. New Pokemon and Metroid games are big draws for Nintendo fans, and it’s likely they’ll be leveraged asupgraded launch titleson the Switch 2.
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