Heard about Metroid Prime 4 this morning.
I'm genuinely surprised that it came to this point. Nintendo have released sub-par titles and games that had hellish development cycles before, but Metroid Prime 4 must've been really, really bad to call for the entire thing to be scrapped and start fresh with a different studio. Glad that Retro Studios is back at the helm, even if most of the staff that worked on the Metroid Prime trilogy of games have left by now. Respect Nintendo's decision, as it's for the better, but I absolutely admire their transparency about it. If they hadn't revealed it in 2017, it may have been scrapped altogether. Explains why we haven't heard anything about it at all since then, either.
But I'm still puzzled with what Retro Studios has been up to. Their last main game was Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze in 2014. Only thing Retro Studios has done since then has been the port of Tropical Freeze to the Switch, with the bonus Funky Mode last year. That doesn't take four years to make. What have Retro Studios been up to since then? We know about the rumored Star Fox: Grand Prix game, but the rumors started around May last year, and we've heard nothing since.
Is Star Fox: Grand Prix, or whatever title they've been working on since 2014, near completion? Are they putting whatever they've been working on on the back burner to focus on Metroid Prime 4? Or are they cancelling all their current projects to go all-hands-on-deck with their new assignment? There's just no way that Retro Studios has been idle since 2014 aside from porting Tropical Freeze.
Hopefully we'll hear about something from Retro Studios early this year.