Been working on this for a bit, looking to expand on it given it's been over 5 years since it first got jpeg revealed in E3 2017 iirc. Feel free to bring up major events/vidya/ect. that have happened since that moment. Let's see how huge this thing gets before Prime 4 actually gets a release date.
How did Nintendo get away with this? They even “won” E3 with this non existent game.
Tendies are mentally ill and enable everything their corporate gods do because “muh childhood!”
They didn't. Nobody has excused them for it.
>rightful Ukraine clay
bait thread
We got a random FF1 prequel.
Live A Live got a remake,
>listing off moronic minecraft ecelebshit as notable happenings
We need to get anon's mom to hang this on the fridge.
>a build of Duke Nukem Forever 2001 was finally leaked
>a bunch of Nintendo beta assets and dev materials were leaked
>L is actually real
>a 1997 Spaceworld build of OoT was partially leaked
>mainline Persona has come to Nintendo, Xbox, and PC
>Xbox has had weeks where it's beaten Playstation in Japan for the first time in nearly a decade
>the Switch has beaten the Wii and PS1 worldwide
>the Switch has beaten the PS4 in USA and Japan
And for something that still HASN'T happened yet since MP4's reveal:
>the first official price drop for Switch hardware
>a 1997 Spaceworld build of OoT was partially leaked
you also forgot to mention a native pc port of ocarina and mario 64 were also compiled
It blows me away how badly Nintendo mishandles its mainline franchises
Metroid literally got a Goty contender new entry less than a year ago, moron
it was only a GOTY nomination because it was a pretty shitty year, dread was a mediocre metroid game
Is Metroid even mainline?
>inb4 that investor pitch that also says Pikmin is mainline
metroid sells about as well as pikmin does, it's not a main franchise
>Mario
No hint of a new 3D game despite Odyssey being an insane success. And also Nintendo just nearly entirely pretending Odyssey doesn't even exist since it released. The only thing they like to acknowledge from Odyssey (Pauline) didn't even originate in it.
>2D Mario
No new proper 2D Mario yet, and Super Mario Maker 2 was a blatant struggle for them the whole way through for some reason.
>Paper Mario
Continuing to give Tanabe the green light to do whatever he wants despite his first PM outing being divisive, the second being maligned, the third being maligned AND a flop (even by WiiU standards), and the fourth being maligned and having no legs + lackluster sales (especially considering it being a Mario spinoff releasing during peak COVID).
>Zelda
BotW2 started as DLC concepts and ballooned into a development hell sequel of feature-creep that's going to take at least a fricking year longer than the original (a game whose development included a whole new engine, collection of assets, etc).
>Metroid Prime
Didn't think to get the same devs they've had on the whole mainline Prime series up to this point to begin with, and initially gave a fricking FPS game to a literally-who offshoot of Bamco.
>Pikmin
4 is stuck in limbo despite having been "almost" done for many years.
>Fire Emblem
The series' own primary dev can't develop the series worth a damn anymore, so now most of the work has to be farmed out to third parties. And this point's gotten much better now, but in ~2016-2018, Nintendo were absolutely fricking delusional about the degree of FE's increased popularity.
>Animal Crossing
Released New Horizons a quarter-finished despite 99% of its development happening before COVID lockdowns and having nearly double the dev-team of BotW1 (500+ vs. BotW's 300+). And massive post-release support dead spots just for the team to hammer Splatoon 3 out faster.
Don't we usually only get like one 3d Mario per console? And isn't Origami King the best selling Paper Mario game.
>in ~2016-2018, Nintendo were absolutely fricking delusional about the degree of FE's increased popularity
I don't remember anything egregious happening.
>Don't we usually only get like one 3d Mario per console?
Super Mario Odyssey sold way too well to justify not getting a sequel or substantive DLC. This is beyond dispute.
>And isn't Origami King the best selling Paper Mario game
Nope, SPM still beats it thanks to its shit legs. Also consider that TOK released on a far larger install base than any of its predecessors and during a frenzy of gaming purchases.
>I don't remember anything egregious happening.
A mainline remake, a musou spinoff, a new mobile game, the next mainline game announced, and a series-specific Direct all in the same year (2017). It was pretty egregious.
> Super Mario Odyssey sold way too well to justify not getting a sequel or substantive DLC. This is beyond dispute.
What does that have to do with anything? A new 3D Mario typically comes around every 5-6 years. The next one is probably around the corner.
Pikmin 3 was also stuck in limbo for a decade. It’s not surprising that 4 hasn’t come out since it’s a low priority franchise that’s only alive because of Miyamoto.
>What does that have to do with anything?
Super Mario Galaxy got its sequel when it was the best-selling 3D Mario, and had ideas leftover. Super Mario Odyssey has satisfied both of these (the concept art they've shared alone shows a treasure trove of ideas ripe for use in a sequel), yet jack shit. And, again, what makes this weird is how they also just don't seem to like acknowledging Odyssey in general. In a nutshell, they almost behave as if Odyssey was a Paper Mario tier spinoff (i.e. something to rarely, ever, be referenced in other Mario material).
Weren't they all announced in the same direct?
Also, Metroid basically got almost the same at E3 (a remake of of the second game for 3DS and a PNG reveal of the next one).
A gatcha and a Warriors spin off certainly don't feel egregious.
>a new mobile game
FEH makes bank, it was objectively a good decision.
>You can't show new things together.
7th gen had Galaxy and Galaxy 2
8th gen had 3D Land and 3D World
>No hint of a new 3D game despite Odyssey being an insane success.
Bowser's Fury was pretty substantial all things considered. EPD Tokyo was also involved in porting Captain Toad and 3D World.
>sequel of feature-creep that's going to take at least a fricking year longer than the original (a game whose development included a whole new engine, collection of assets, etc)
This one continues to boggle my mind. They're reusing so much from the main game, there's zero reason development should be taking this long. It's also worth considering that during BotW's development they spent however long porting it to Switch, 2 years working on A Link Between Worlds, and half a year working on Wind Waker HD. I don't think they've been involved in any other games during BotW2's development.
>4 is stuck in limbo despite having been "almost" done for many years.
I'm 99% sure the original build was scrapped and they had to restart development. Since then, they've probably had a skeleton team working on it, since EPD10 also released Super Mario Maker 2, NSMBU Deluxe, Pikmin 3 Deluxe, and Big Brain Academy in that time.
>there's zero reason development should be taking this long.
My theory is that it's a combo of
>1: Nintendo hiding behind LE COVID PREASE UNDERSTAND coming around to bite them in the ass by fricking up their work ethic
>2: aggressive feature-creep (as I pointed out already)
and either
>3A: a catastrophic event besides COVID that ruined a lot of work
or
>3B: or shit coming out that scared them into having to try harder than they originally intended to (I don't think it was Elden Ring; at most it would've been a tipping point factor rather than the major reason)
They've been suspiciously quiet for the past 3 or so years on stuff. It makes me wonder if they fired people or are even planning anything to be released this year. Dread and Forgotten Land were wonderful, but not handled by Nintendo's first party teams. It is very odd.
It's clear they had plans for a Switch Succesor, covid and the silicon shortage likely ruined them.
Switch Hardware is painful to use now, many games don't even run 720p docked. And everything has frame drops.
One of the writers is a troony.
>not even mentioning Kazuki Takahashi
Bruh that's hard
>Halo Infinite got announced a year after Prime 4 and released three years later with still no since of Prime 4
*sign
>release date
Usually get more than a logo before that
That's not even everything
>Mega Man came back from the grave
>Pikmin 4 still didn't get announced
>Danganronpa ended and then got restarted
>Bethesda finally made a new IP
>Cuphead's DLC is actually real
>Jonny Atma and fricking Wu Tang Clan both featured in a TMNT game with Tee Lopes
>Sonic the Hedgehog became canonically classified as an SMT demon
>Fire Emblem had two full Warriors spin offs come out, one of which based on a game that was both revealed and released after Prime 4's reveal
>Battle for Bikini Bottom actually got a remake
>TWEWY got a fricking sequel
>Danganronpa ended and then got restarted
Eh? Did that summer party thing have something new?
Thanks for the additions so far m8s, keep 'em coming so I can make this thing as xbox hueg as possible.
Shenmu 3 came out
>FamilyJules did the soundtrack for a Zelda spin off
>Halo Infinite will have coop, Forge, Mission Replay, File Browser, and Battle Royale before Metroid Prime 4 even releases.
>MHW also got an expansion, then the sequel came out, and that got an expansion as well
>Resident Evil got a new mainline game, 2 remakes, and at this rate will have a 3rd remake released
>Megaman got a new game and rereleases for the entire Classic/X/Zero/ZX series (excluding spinoffs like Command Mission and Power Fighters) with a Battle Network collection on the way
>E3 fricking died
>Squeenix released the new Dissidia on consoles and gave it the axe
>Nintendo released new Mario Party, Tennis, Golf, and Strikers games
>Twitch added Hot Tubs as a category
>Monolithsoft released 2 full new Xenoblade games, a remaster, and two expansions
The Monolith thing makes me laugh. They are the most capable division of Nintendo and they know it
They're great game makers, but like most Japanese awful programmers.
There's no reason DE had to run at sub HD fricking docked.
Monolith is doing so much heavy lifting for Nintendo now. Nintendo's inhouse development would be almost fricking Game Freak tiers of incompetent at this point if they didn't have Mono around to constantly bail their asses out. Such as how BotW2 and wrapup for Splatoon 3 are already completely bottlenecking their inhouse output, with the latter partially explaining why AC New Horizons got cornholed so badly (funny that it's TWO asset-recycling sequels that are giving them so much trouble).
When a Nintendo first-party dev is struggling this badly, you gotta start acknowledging that the hardware itself genuinely IS a big part of the problem.
I won't deny that. But even The Witcher 3 stays at 720p locked docked. There's no excuse for a Wii remaster to run at 540p docked.
Monolith just don't wanna optimize their code, so all we can hope for is a nire powerful console so brute forced spaghetti code runs well.
they are by far the largest dev team at Nintendo and have ballooned in size since they were acquired. they almost have half the amount of developers as all of EPD combined.
Live A Live got an official english translation
Seiken Densetsu 3 got an official english release through a translation and a remake
>Former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe was shot and killed, and Hideo Kojima was mistakenly named as the culprit
>Dragon's Dogma 2 is a reality
>the rise and fall of NFTs
>cryptocurrency on its last legs
>we finally have a United States president less popular than Jimmy Carter and he's not even halfway through his first term yet
>Banjo-Kazooie were officially added to Super Smash Bros.
>Castlevania got TWO major media adaptations so far it's been shit but it's still noteworthy
>Death Stranding actually came out and wasn't garbage
>full-on Classic style Mario Party is back
>Super Smash Bros. Melee got rollback netcode
>Super Mario 64 and Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time have been completely manually reverse-engineered by fans, with many more 90s-2000s games on the way
>SM64 and OoT now have actual native ports on PC thanks to said reverse-engineering
Roe vs Wade got overturned and same-sex marriage will soon follow in the US.
>the mcu started and finished it’s 2 part ending of Infinity war and Endgame
here's some more because I feel like it
>Live A Live got localized
>Front Mission came back
>TF2 got an actual update
>Psychonauts 2 got released
>Gore Magala came back to Monster Hunter
>FLCL came back
>Famicom Detective Club got localized
>Sonic decided to be good and then went back to being shit
>Internet Explorer died
>AOL Instant Messenger died
>Billy Kametz rose to prominence and passed away
>Better Call Saul entered its final season
>Jojolion ended
>Nintendo formed a movie division
>Acti-Blizz imploded on itself
>BioWare dropped off the face of the Earth
>Fallout 76 came out, got shit on, and also introduced a battle royale
>Darkstalkers came back
>Panty and Stocking came back
>Yandere Sim never got finished
>Persona 3-5 ruined JRPGs
>Sora and Banjo got into Smash
>Bloodborne remained stranded on the PS4
>Omori actually came out
>Kingdom Hearts IV got revealed
>Final Fantasy VII Remake actually started
>Square Enix sold their Western IPs
>Resident Evil 2 Remake finally came out
>Geoff Keighley became the face of the industry
>Yakuza finished Kiryu's arc and then changed genres
The last member of the iPod family was discontinued by Apple in May 2022.
Place your bets, what will happen first: Metroid Prime 4 or Yandere Simulator?
Also, Osana got added into Yandere Simulator before Metroid Prime 4.
Probably Metroid Prime 4.
But the other option would be funnier.
Nintendo must really not like some aspects about Prime 4, Nintendo were known to throw out and redo Retro's Metroid Prime boss fights in their game if they didn't like it or made them redo things or make it bigger if they didn't like it. Retro never liked working with Nintendo and wanted to be off Prime so Nintendo wouldn't be watching them but now they're back on Prime so Nintendo is probably on them like a hawk to get it right. I'll be surprised if Prime 4 even releases in 2023 or 2024.
Prime 2 was made in less than 2 years
>PS5 was officially announced and released, but still has no games
>Phil Spencer announced that all future Xbox exclusives will also come to PC
>Marvel released 14 MCU movies and 7 D+ shows (and counting)
>Disney+, HBO Max, Paramount+, Discovery+, and ESPN+ all came into existence
>CNN+ launched and got the axe after exactly 1 month
>Discovery merged with WarnerMedia
No one cares about Ganker crap
>OP includes Gankershit
>"nobody cares about Gankershit"
>Prime 4
Haven't seen any gameplay. Game doesn't exist
>Nintendo named a Bowser CEO, then sued another Bowser into oblivion
Fug, meant president, not CEO
>this aewtist really mentioned AEW as if anyone knows what the frick that is
It's taking this long because the sex minigame with Dark Samus needs to be perfect!
>Scorn will come out this year
>Routine will probably come out before Prime 4
How do you get beaten by two games announced years before yours and became turbo delayed for almost a decade?
The list continues to grow with your help and me remembering other things, anons. Don't stop, this is getting quite good.
If you're putting on AEW, you have to mention that Kenny Omega became Sans Undertale
Etika died in that time too.
Stalker 2 got a release date and then lost said release date
>uri geller removed his ban on kadabra
>people finally figured out the code of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky, so people are now making romhacks, quality of life patches and even translations
>Binding of Isaac got its final expansion
>Meat Boy got a sequel
>Trails of Cold Steel finished, and the Trails series entered a whole new era
>Silent Hill got leaked to come back
>My Chemical Romance got back together
>Mario Sunshine finally got an official remaster
>Fire Emblem 1 got officially localized
>Mario was publicly executed on March 31st, 2021
>Dark Souls came to Switch
>Jet Set Radio got leaked to come back
>Crazy Taxi got leaked to come back
>Soul Hackers came back
>The Last of Us got a fricking remake for some reason
>Star Ocean, Valkyrie Profile, and SaGa all came back
>Capcom mega leak happened
>NVIDIA mega leak happened
>Okami 2 was teased
>Monkey Ball got revived
>Sin and Punishment got ported
>Treasure came back from their grave to tease a new game
>Rocksteady made a new game
>GTA VI was confirmed
>Dead Space came back
>BioShock was leaked to come back
>Monkey Island came back, as well as other LucasArts games like Zombies Ate My Neighbors and Day of the Tentacle
>RedCandleGames's Devotion pissed off the Prime Minister of China so much the game was pulled from not one but two storefronts
>Marvel Vs. Capcom came back to life and then immediately died afterward
>Banjo Kazooie was made playable on a Nintendo console for the first time in over 20 years
>My Bloody Valentine came back and rereleased all of their music on streaming services for the first time ever
Half of these are gay eceleb shit and most of these happened relatively quick, not things that people waited forever on.
Fix your shit homosexual
>No More Heroes finally came back, and then finished its story
>Morbius came out and the entire internet gaslit Sony into putting it back into theaters after it bombed initially. It bombed again, causing them major monetary losses.
MP4 is the final vaporware to release and would probably break the final seal of the apocalypse if it did come out.
>inb4 muh HL3
No.
>Ash Ketchum won a (non-filler) Pokemon League for the very first time
>Disney bungling the finale to Star Wars' Skywalker Saga, killing the franchise's mainstream presence and putting it back in extended-universe hell
>Netflix might actually die relatively soon
>phones now have consumer-ready screen technology that completely covers up cameras that used to require a notched or "holepunched" screen
>Nintendo actually acknowledged King K. Rool with Smash, the first time he was a proper actual character in anything new in a decade
>the Euro has become less valuable than the American Dollar
>Jackass 4 happened
>The Sessho-seki stone in Japan was split in two
>the Georgia Guidestones were destroyed
>Jeffrey Epstein was arrested and immediately killed in prison, and all of his powerful/rich child-sex clientele got off completely scot-free
>a My Chemical Romance reunion tour is actually happening
Under Smash, you should include that Ridley finally wasn't too big.
If you want to include politics and world events, might as well mention that the son of the President of the United States had pictures of his dick, pictures of him smoking crack, and videos of him fricking hookers leaked online.
>Star Fox 2 got an official release on both the SNES Classic and Nintendo Switch Online
>The Reiwa era of Japan started
Quintet (or at least their IPs) came back from the dead starting with an Actraiser reboot.
>Castlevania Resurrection for Dreamcast would get leaked online
>Warner Bros and Nickelodeon both created Smash Clones
One last one
>Conan O'Brien finally finished his 28 year talk show dynasty
>Invader Zim and Rocko's Modern Life came back
>Fans made Bloodborne Kart a real thing after joking about it for years
>The Doomsday Clock moved to 100 seconds until midnight
>Jonny Depp was redeemed
>MaximilianDood had a daughter
>Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World the Game got a rerelease
>Super Mario Bros. Z actually came back in full
>The creator of Silent Hill's Pyramid Head publicly stated he wishes he never made the character for "unspecified reasons" (probably porn and misuse by Konami)
>Video game adaptations became good (sometimes)
>Yuji Naka made Balan Wonderworld, spoke out against his mistreatment at Square Enix, and then had a mental breakdown on Twitter
>The Wii, Wii U, and 3DS E-shops all closed
>Ken Levine teased wanting to release his cut of BioShock Infinite
>Pikmin turned 20 years old, still hasn't gotten a new game
>Keita Takahashi teased trying to buy back the Katamari IP
>Pac-Man World came back
Conan is a homosexual
eh, even so, ending a legacy that lasted nearly 3 decades is a pretty big deal.
>Ganondorf finally uses a sword in Super Smash Bros. ironically, the game they give him a sword is also when he appears as his one incarnation where he DIDN'T canonically have a sword
>a PS1 Classic mini console happened and flopped
>Nintendo-manufactured SEGA controllers exist
>60fps is now the standard on consoles although that will probably die again at the end of the gen
>Bayonetta 3 is actually releasing soon
>two major Nintendo Switch hardware variants (and a minor battery-improving OG revision) have happened
>drifting joysticks have sadly become accepted as a fairly imminent certainty for modern controllers
>YouTube killed its public dislike counter to appease corporate and political interests
>Star Wars Episode 9 made a Fortnite promotion canon to its opening crawl
>Star Trek has had several new shows, yet Seth fricking MacFarlane's unendorsed parody show somehow turned out better than all of them
Bayonetta 3 got a release date and is likely to come out before MP4.
Same goes for Silksong.
Shinzo Abe died.
Dragon's Dogma 2 is real.
Nintendo got a 30/30 in Japan for the first time in YEARS.
Binding of Isaac Antibirth became official.
Panty and Stocking came back.
Bastard and Trigun both got revivals.
Frontier monsters came back to Monster Hunter.
We got a PMD remake.
>OG FF3 finally received an official english translation
Did it not already? I thought it was on the DS
That was the 3D remake, the original 2D version never had one until Pixel Remaster
god created the earth
Madness Combat 11 came out after years of hiatus.
is OP ever going to post an update
it's been like an hour
>Metroid and Etrian Odyssey are my favorite vidya series
>Prime 4 and Next Stage both had vague teasers like 4 years ago and nothing but silence since.
I think some higher power has it out for me.
>you can just flat out lie about your console and get away with it
classic nintendo