{"id":135470,"date":"2025-12-30T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-195763"},"modified":"2025-12-30T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T07:00:00","slug":"nintendo-comments-on-metroid-prime-4s-placement-in-the-metroid-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2025\/12\/30\/nintendo-comments-on-metroid-prime-4s-placement-in-the-metroid-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Comments On Metroid Prime 4&#8217;s Placement In The Metroid Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5a6ceee95033b\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5a6ceee95033b\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"5a6ceee95033b\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Metroid Prime 4\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5a6ceee95033b\/metroid-prime-4.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5a6ceee95033b\/metroid-prime-4.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Metroid Prime 4\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Like other iconic Nintendo series, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/metroid\">Metroid<\/a> has a timeline documenting Samus&#8217; space adventures from past to present. Although the newest outing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/metroid_prime_4_beyond\">Metroid Prime 4: Beyond<\/a> is very much its own thing, it is still part of the Prime series as a new chapter.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of the first-person entries, it&#8217;s now apparently been mentioned by Nintendo how this game fits within the <em>entire<\/em> history of the Metroid series. <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.famitsu.com\/article\/202512\/60211\">Speaking to Famitsu<\/a> recently, Nintendo&#8217;s development team reportedly told the famous Japanese gaming outlet how the latest Switch and Switch 2 outing is set <em>after<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/super_metroid\">Super Metroid<\/a> on the Super Nintendo and <em>before<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gba\/metroid_fusion\">Metroid Fusion<\/a> on the Game Boy Advance (<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/metroid-prime-4-timeline-placement\/\">thanks, Nintendo Everything<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In saying this, it&#8217;s reiterated how the new entry takes place in &#8220;another dimension&#8221;, meaning there is no need to worry about the timeline or possible impacts on the 2D Metroid series. As a result, players can jump into this new adventure without any prior knowledge and enjoy the original setting. It has been an 18-year wait between this game and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/metroid_prime_3_corruption\">Corruption<\/a>, after all.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch-2\/metroid-prime-4-beyond-nintendo-switch-2-edition\">our review of Metroid Prime 4 here on Nintendo Life<\/a>, we also mentioned how newcomers would be able to enjoy this new adventure without having to understand the history of the series. If Nintendo, Retro Studios or a prominent Nintendo figure says anything else about how exactly Beyond fits within the Metroid timeline, we&#8217;ll provide an update.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch-2\/related-articles:194214,194215,170667 @ 1767169300 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p>What do you make of this? Have you played Metroid Prime 4: Beyond on the Switch or Switch 2? <em>Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Like other iconic Nintendo series, Metroid has a timeline documenting Samus&#8217; space adventures from past to present. Although the newest outing Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is very much its own thing, it is still part of the Prime series as a new chapter. Outside of the first-person entries, it&#8217;s now apparently been mentioned [&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-135470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135470","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=135470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}