Again, Retro Studios communicates the desperate search for specialized personnel for the realization of Metroid Prime 4, this time it's up to the figure of Boss / AI Designer. Two years have now passed since the announcement of the total reset of the project for this fourth chapter of Metroid and since then the studio has been in constant search for qualified personnel for the development of the house title Nintendo, announced in the past for Nintendo Switch. Retro Studios has been particularly quiet during these years of work, almost exclusively reporting staff searches on its channel Twitter.
Apparently, Metroid Prime 4 could have been released last year but its development suffered a sudden halt due to the fragmentation of work in several countries. In fact, the team did not work under a “common roof”, but was instead scattered around the world, thus making the development process not convincing enough and imperfect. Despite the interruption, fans reacted well to the news, especially in front of the goal of wanting to reach a better quality level. It also helped to know that Nintendo hired the producer Kensuke Tanabe to work with the American developers of Retro Studios, who made the original Metroid series.
Since then Retro Studios has been looking for people to develop Metroid Prime 4, and found itself suddenly having to put together almost an entire team from scratch, for a project already announced during E3 2017. During these two years the team has managed to grow, acquiring exceptional personnel, including Kyle Hefley (Halo), Jhony Ljungstedt (HE SAYS), Bharathwaj Nandakumar (Call of Duty: Black Ops 4), Jon Marcella (God of War), Dylan Jobe (DOOM and Warhawk), Marisa Palumbo (God of War), Adad Morales (Battlefield Hardline), Bryan Erck (Shadow of the Tomb Raider), James Beech (Crysis 3 and DC Universe Online) e Stephen Dupree (New Super Lucky's Tale, Donkey Kong Country Returns, and Mario Kart 7).
At the moment the team is already made up of several prominent characters, after all for a game like MP4 a not just level of experience is required, with the clause moreover having to work absolutely within the new studio located at Austin, Texas. This new office, cost well dollars 530.000 (about 454 thousand euros) and which will cover about 3700 square meters, will serve as a new base for Retro Studios and will be fully operational from summer 2021. At the moment there are few tasks still to be filled in order to be able to proceed fully at full capacity in the creation of Metroid Prime 4, we just have to wait for new developments in this regard.
