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Metroid Prime 4: Beyond (2025)

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Preview

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The trailer for Metroid Prime 4 looks great, but some people think it looks suspiciously good, like maybe its not running on the Switch at all. What if this is secretly footage of the game running on the Switch 2. Obviously, Nintendo isn't going to say confirm or deny this either way, but we may have a definitive answer on this thanks to the good folks over at Digital Foundry. IGN reached out to Digital Foundry to find out if what we see in this trailer could possibly be running on a stock Nintendo Switch. Here’s what they had to say.

"It's looking great and there are a couple of nice effects in there we took a closer look at, but ultimately, all the evidence points to this game running on the original Switch. The internal rendering resolution counts out at 900p, which is the same as Metroid Prime Remastered. And as good as it is, there are some aliasing issues and even some very minor frame-rate drops. Everything about the visual make-up is consistent with a really well-made Switch game, where Retro has an excellent track record. I can imagine the development studio is really happy that people are making a connection with Switch 2, mind you."

So, there you go. It turns out that, if you try hard enough and have the right team, the Nintendo Switch is a lot more graphically capable than you might expect. Unless you’ve played Metroid Prime Remastered, in which case you already know this and you probably never questioned this trailer in the first place.

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