The Nintendo Direct of last Wednesday, January 8, left some important headlines such as the arrival of Game Boy and Game Boy Advance to the Japanese online service but, above all, the return of one of those titles that had been on everyone’s lips for years as one of the candidates for a remake for Switch. And the wishes of those fans came true with Metroid Prime Remasteredalbeit with small print that has annoyed some.
Available and launch, is it the same?
In that Nintendo Direct, special emphasis was placed on announcing that Metroid Prime Remastered it was already for sale, which quickly made the community go crazy but as we mentioned before, that phrase brought an asterisk with an exception that few can still explain today. And it is that one thing is that something is available for purchase, and another that a launch has taken place as we imagined by one of the most important companies in the sector.
Releases in physical format have become in recent years a kind of reward for a success obtained thanks to a previous digital release. Countless independent titles follow that path and only companies like Nintendo can consider producing large quantities ofs of cartridges to sell them. That was what the community of Metroid Prime I expected, but it has not been like that.
The game is available to buy in the Nintendo eShop for a price of 39.99 euros 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 continue 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 because that will happen on March 3 when the physical edition reaches all stores. It will be at that moment when we can really say that the game has already completed its release process as expected from a Nintendo title.
We do not know if the Japanese have wanted to encourage digital purchases, or if it is simply a question of circumstances that have led Nintendo to make such a strange decision because it is not understood that many of those fans who have pushed in the markets are left out of this event. last times so that Metroid Prime Remastered was a reality. But the point is that there will be practically a month difference between the arrival of both versions.
That is why we cannot consider that Metroid Prime Remastered has already been on the market. It’s available for those who don’t mind feeding their machine with eShop downloads, but not to satiate that veteran player, hardened in the physical format that he already enjoyed the classic 20 years ago from GameCube (and later Wii) and that on Switch we already told you that it improves a lot. If only because of its new updated control with two stickswhich make it perfect to rediscover it with all the graphic quality that the Japanese hybrid console is capable of launching.
