The Nintendo Direct of Wednesday January 8 left some important titles like the arrival of Game Boy and Game Boy Advance on the Japanese online service but, above all, the return of one of those titles that have been on everyone’s lips for years as one of the candidates for a redo for Switch. And the wishes of these fans came true with Metroid Prime Remasteredbut with fine print that has annoyed some.
Available and launch, is it the same?
In this Nintendo Direct, special emphasis was placed on the announcement that Metroid Prime Remastered it was already for sale, which quickly drove the community crazy but as we mentioned before, this sentence brought an asterisk with an exception that few people can still explain today. And it is that one thing is that something is available for purchase, and another that there has been a launch as we imagined by one of the most important companies in the sector.
Releases in physical format have in recent years become something of a reward for success achieved through a previous digital release. Countless independent titles follow this path and only companies like Nintendo may consider producing large quantities ofs of cartridges for resale. This is what the community of Metroid Prime I expected it, but it didn’t turn out that way.
The game is available for purchase on the Nintendo eShop for 39.99 dollars but unfortunately, the same does not happen with the physical edition to which tens of thousands of players around the world refuse to give up, who want to keep putting the boxes on the shelves and touching them with their fingers before starting to play.
It’s time to wait, until when?
So things, Metroid Prime Remastered technically it’s available, but It has not been officially released as it will happen on March 3 when the physical edition reaches all stores. This will be when we can truly say that the game has already completed its release process as expected of a Nintendo title.
We don’t know if the Japanese wanted to encourage digital purchases, or if it was just circumstances that led Nintendo to make such a strange decision because it is not understood that many of these fans who pushed the markets are excluded from this event. last times so that Metroid Prime Remastered
This is why we cannot consider that Metroid Prime Remastered has already been on the market. It’s available for those who don’t mind fueling their machine with eShop downloads, but not to get sated this veteran player, hardened in the physical format he already enjoyed the classic 20 years ago from GameCube (and later Wii) and that on Switch, we have already told you that it is improving a lot. If only because of its new updated control with two The stickswhich makes it perfect to rediscover it with all the graphic quality that the Japanese hybrid console is capable of throwing.
