{"id":106404,"date":"2019-12-30T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/12\/rumour_metroid_prime_4s_environment_work_might_be_outsourced"},"modified":"2019-12-30T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T03:30:00","slug":"rumour-metroid-prime-4s-environment-work-might-be-outsourced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/30\/rumour-metroid-prime-4s-environment-work-might-be-outsourced\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour: Metroid Prime 4&#8217;s Environment Work Might Be Outsourced"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ce7b20818a026\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ce7b20818a026\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Metroid Prime 3\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ce7b20818a026\/metroid-prime-3.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ce7b20818a026\/metroid-prime-3.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Metroid Prime 3\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>At the start of 2019, Nintendo fans got quite the shock when Nintendo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/01\/metroid_prime_4_development_scrapped_will_be_restarted_alongside_retro_studios\">restarted<\/a> the development of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/metroid_prime_4\">Metroid Prime 4<\/a><\/strong>. It has potentially set its eventual release back multiple years. If a finding by the YouTuber <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qraJvRPWNmI\">Doctre81<\/a> is anything to go by though, the game could be arriving sooner than expected.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s been digging around online and believes he has now found &#8220;definitive undisputed proof&#8221; of the environmental work in the game being outsourced. Posted less than a day ago is a job listing for Retro Studios and it&#8217;s a contract for an environment outsourcing review artist. Doctre81 further explains how the description of this listing states the role is to:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Review outsourced content to ensure final deliverables reflect the desired artistic vision.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Although the specific game isn&#8217;t mentioned, the description goes onto state how the roles require the individual to test levels in the game and &#8220;assess&#8221; both aesthetics and performance on the Switch.<\/p>\n<p>You can get the full rundown in the video below:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qraJvRPWNmI?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Doctre81 is best known for finding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/02\/witcher_rumours_intensify_following_discovery_of_job_listing_referencing_nintendo_switch\">references<\/a> to the Nintendo Switch in CD Projekt job listings, months before <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/witcher_3_wild_hunt_-_complete_edition\">The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt<\/a><\/strong> was officially announced for the platform.<\/p>\n<p><em>How would you feel about Retro outsourcing the environmental work in Metroid Prime 4 to speed up the development cycle? Leave a comment down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the start of 2019, Nintendo fans got quite the shock when Nintendo restarted the development of Metroid Prime 4. It has potentially set its eventual release back multiple years. If a finding by the YouTuber Doctre81 is anything to go by though, the game could be arriving sooner than expected. He&#8217;s been digging around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}