{"id":131741,"date":"2023-02-10T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-144985"},"modified":"2023-02-10T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T01:05:00","slug":"retro-studios-wasnt-the-only-dev-working-on-metroid-prime-remastered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/10\/retro-studios-wasnt-the-only-dev-working-on-metroid-prime-remastered\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Studios Wasn&#8217;t The Only Dev Working On Metroid Prime Remastered"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9fd8f8061e8ed\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9fd8f8061e8ed\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Metroid Prime Remastered\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9fd8f8061e8ed\/metroid-prime-remastered.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9fd8f8061e8ed\/metroid-prime-remastered.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Metroid Prime Remastered\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you were wondering how Nintendo was able to release a remaster of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/metroid_prime\">Metroid Prime<\/a> while the fourth major entry is still in development, it turns out it was a team effort.<\/p>\n<p>The credits of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/metroid_prime_remastered\">Metroid Prime Remastered<\/a> reveal Retro Studios was assisted by Iron Galaxy &#8211; the same developer behind a number of other Switch ports such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/elder_scrolls_v_skyrim\">The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/diablo_iii_eternal_collection\">Diablo III<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/overwatch_legendary_edition\">Overwatch<\/a>. The American-based studio has also been heavily involved with the Xbox version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gameboy\/killer_instinct\">Killer Instinct<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from Iron Galaxy, the remaster&#8217;s credits list a number of support studios: Airship Images Limited, Atomhawk Design, CGBot, Gamesim Inc, Liquid Development, Original Force LTD, Shanghai Mineloader Digital Technology, and Zombot Studio.<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s unclear how long this port has been in development, a number of developers credited in the remaster apparently started work at the studio in early 2019, just after the announcement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/01\/metroid_prime_4_development_scrapped_will_be_restarted_alongside_retro_studios\">Retro would be taking over the development<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/metroid_prime_4\">Metroid Prime 4<\/a>. In the past few years, some of the same developers have left the studio. Retro has also been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/01\/metroid-prime-4-developer-retro-studios-is-seeking-new-team-members\">regularly recruiting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/metroid\/related-articles:144970 @ 2023-02-10T06:12:29+00:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>What are your own thoughts about the remaster so far? Has Retro and co done a good job? Would you like to see the other two games remastered? Comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo If you were wondering how Nintendo was able to release a remaster of Metroid Prime while the fourth major entry is still in development, it turns out it was a team effort. The credits of Metroid Prime Remastered reveal Retro Studios was assisted by Iron Galaxy &#8211; the same developer behind a number [&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-131741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131741","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=131741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}