{"id":78710,"date":"2019-01-28T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/01\/random_looks_like_amazon_didnt_get_the_memo_about_metroid_prime_4"},"modified":"2019-01-28T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T12:30:00","slug":"random-looks-like-amazon-didnt-get-the-memo-about-metroid-prime-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/28\/random-looks-like-amazon-didnt-get-the-memo-about-metroid-prime-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Looks Like Amazon Didn&#8217;t Get The Memo About Metroid Prime 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a251d4a0cfe69\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a251d4a0cfe69\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Metroid\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a251d4a0cfe69\/metroid.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a251d4a0cfe69\/metroid.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Metroid\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Unless you&#8217;ve been fast asleep since last week, you&#8217;ve probably already heard the news that the development of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/metroid_prime_4\"><strong>Metroid Prime 4<\/strong><\/a> is being entirely restarted. Nintendo issued <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/01\/metroid_prime_4_development_scrapped_will_be_restarted_alongside_retro_studios\">an official statement<\/a> on the game&#8217;s progress last Friday, telling us that Retro Studios would now be working on the title and apologising for what will be a pretty lengthy delay.<\/p>\n<p>With the game now being started over from the very beginning, we&#8217;d imagine it won&#8217;t see a release until <em>at<\/em> <em>least<\/em> 2021\/22, and possibly a couple of years later still, but it would seem that not everyone has received this particular message. Despite being among the first to open up pre-orders for the game when it was first announced a couple of years ago, major worldwide retailer Amazon seems to be offering very mixed messages concerning the product&#8217;s release.<\/p>\n<p>On the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Metroid-Prime-4-Nintendo-Switch\/dp\/B072JYMLT3\/ref=sr_1_3?s=videogames&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1548675062&amp;sr=1-3&amp;th=1&amp;tag=nlife-20\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external\">US version<\/a> of the site, Amazon still has the game listed under a generic 31st December 2019 release date, put in place in response to Nintendo&#8217;s original &#8220;2019&#8221; estimate with pre-orders still fully intact despite the product essentially being put on hold. Things get weirder still on the UK site, where the game has two separate listings &#8211; one saying that it will be released on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Metroid-Prime-4-Nintendo-Switch\/dp\/B072JYMLT3\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1548676700&amp;sr=8-1&amp;tag=nlife-21\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external\">28th December 2018<\/a> (which has already been and gone, obviously) and another saying the year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Metroid-Prime-4-Nintendo-Switch\/dp\/B0721792SH\/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1548676700&amp;sr=8-7&amp;tag=nlife-21\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external\">2030<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Screenshot Amazon UK\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d768085113434\/screenshot-amazon-uk.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d768085113434\/screenshot-amazon-uk.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot Amazon UK\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Hopefully it goes without saying that any pre-orders made for Metroid Prime 4 will absolutely not be fulfilled by those dates (well, apart from the 2030 option we hope). It could be well over a year before Nintendo even talks about it again, so it might be best to ignore any purchasing options for now.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you haven&#8217;t already, make sure to let us know how you feel about the Metroid Prime 4 delay on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/01\/talking_point_how_do_you_feel_about_the_metroid_prime_4_delay\">Talking Point feature<\/a>. You can always leave us a quick comment below, too!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you&#8217;ve been fast asleep since last week, you&#8217;ve probably already heard the news that the development of Metroid Prime 4 is being entirely restarted. Nintendo issued an official statement on the game&#8217;s progress last Friday, telling us that Retro Studios would now be working on the title and apologising for what will be a [&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-78710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78710","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=78710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}