Comments on: Nintendo announces Metroid Prime Trilogy for Wii

By: The Tanooki » Not even Tecmo’s merger partner knew about Metroid: Other M

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:50:30 +0000

[...] Zelda, Mario, and Pikmin, all on top of the fact that we were already getting a Metroid Prime compilation from Retro, no one saw a joint Metroid project from Nintendo and Tecmo’s Team Ninja coming. [...]

By: Rhody

Rhody — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:48:06 +0000

Not to mention that Metroid Prime 1 and 2 will be a superior experience with Wiimote controls anyway.

By: guppy06

guppy06 — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:17:31 +0000

That’s just is, continuo: I think a big part of the “New Play Control” series is introducing these games to people that haven’t played the originals already, since the Wii market penetration is redonkulous, especially compared to the GameCube. Us rabid fanboys have of course played these games and more on our magical purple lunchboxes of joy, but a whole lot of Wii owners haven’t.

If nothing else, this is a very easy way for Nintendo to sate the folks that call themselves “hardcore gamers.” “Yeah, we don’t have too much coming down the pipe for you, but you never played these older games anyway, so here’s a second chance.”

Personally, I’d be happier if they just started re-pressing the original ‘Cube disks again (maybe with a $30 MSRP) and manufacturing WaveBirds or a worthy successor*. But, of course, the Wii’s success is based in large part to “new” and “intuitive” play controls, and they probably don’t want to risk scaring off new gamers with anything “complicated.”

*On the other hand, re-coding it to run on the Wii natively is probably cheaper and easier than manufacturing new WaveBirds, memory cards and 8 cm disks.

By: continuo

continuo — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:40:57 +0000

I don’t know … I think it’s bad enough that we’re “re-buying” games on Virtual Console, but to do it for GCN and Wii games … so soon???

It’s an awesome deal, though, if you haven’t owned the games already.

By: drktrpr1

drktrpr1 — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:25:39 +0000

Best deal in the history of the world? I’m going with yes.

By: Rhody

Rhody — Wed, 27 May 2009 06:28:56 +0000

It is if you want to play through Metroid Prime 1 and 2 again with Wii controls. It’s cheaper than if you were to buy just those two games separately, and you can always sell your current collection and put the money towards the Trilogy. (If you plan to do that, though, it’s probably better to do it sooner than later. Especially with Metroid Prime 3, because the going rate for that game is going to drop quite a bit when the Trilogy comes out. )

By: continuo

continuo — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:37:29 +0000

sooo … is it worth getting if you already own the games?

???

By: Christian

Christian — Sun, 24 May 2009 02:36:04 +0000

Unlinked articles are always based on official information from press releases and publisher emails.

By: Kuefler

Kuefler — Sat, 23 May 2009 04:51:44 +0000

Was this from a press release? Or is there a link? Any ways, I’m really pumped that Nintendo decided to release these like this. I find it hard to believe that this release won’t be successful, but stranger things have happened.