Ondanks de geruchten over de Metroid Prime Trilogy en vele preventieve winkelvermeldingen, moet deze port nog gebeuren.
Michael Wikan, een voormalige ontwikkelaar van Retro Studios en senior ontwerper van Metroid Prime, lijkt enig licht te hebben geworpen op waarom het zo lang duurt, als het überhaupt gebeurt.
Volgens Wikan is de belangrijkste reden dat een Nintendo Switch-port van Metroid Prime Trilogy waarschijnlijk niet zal plaatsvinden, omdat Retro Studios niet langer over de bewerkingstools beschikt die nodig zijn om met de code van Prime te werken.
Als gevolg hiervan kan het updaten van de games voor gebruik op de Switch een “enorme inspanning” vergen, vooral voor Metroid Prime 3.
Wikan over Metroid Prime Trilogy
I was a lead designer on all 3 original games, ran the Trilogy compilation project, was a lead designer on Donkey Kong Country Returns. The biggest issue is Retro no longer has functional editor tools to work with the Prime code base, so everything has to be “brute force” hard coded. Rebuilding the hundreds of interaction sets in MP3 alone, not to mention retuning the game play to take in the slower engagement pacing of conventional controls would probably take a year with a 4-5 person team full time by itself.
That would take a lot of effort [porting the trilogy to Switch], so I am pretty skeptical it will happen. It was straightforward to update MP1 and 2 to Motion controls, but converting MP3 to normal controls would be a herculean effort, as it is scripted very specifically using volumetric triggers to detect the motion in precise manners to do specific switches, and the bosses are tuned to take into account the ease of gestural aiming.
It was listed ages ago on GameStop or some site and was then removed, so I think it is probably coming. Plus the Switch does have gyro metric controls so it wouldn’t be too difficult I would think. But I could be wrong. 🤷🏼♂️ We shall see!
I built all those games, lol, and the gyro can’t do it. I suspect that old GameStop listing was an error or prank.
