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That Activision sandbox was the stuff of legend during the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 days, an oddly-timed counter to InFAMOUS that is perhaps a bit too on the nose with its story of a viral outbreak handing one lucky bastard all the superpowers he could ask for, in todayвЂ™s current climate. Of course there are the obvious ones like spy-thriller No One Lives Forever or a reason to not have money in the form of Disney Infinity, but hand on my chest, I swear to you IвЂ™d love to see Prototype make a comeback. There are a number of franchises that have been left to rot over the last generation of gaming, and I think itвЂ™s high-time that they got a revival.

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IвЂ™m busy testing out the Xbox Series X and Series S for an upcoming review on those consoles, and while IвЂ™m excited for the new games arriving on those systems, IвЂ™m feeling nostalgic as well. Sometimes it leads to us all shouting 'FFS Nintendo just give us more of the same but better!' Sometimes it completely redefines the concept of what a video game can be.Next-gen is officially here! Well in my house at least, because yвЂ™all are going to have to wait two more weeks still.

Sometimes it leads to experiments that fail disastrously.

The way Nintendo experiment cuts both ways. (Yes, I know, I talk about the N64 too much, but those are both good is right on the money. Games like Ocarina of Time and Super Mario 64 went through so many iterations over the course of their development that the end product looks almost nothing like the initial idea. Some people are surprised that Nintendo have this philosophy, but they always did. A lot of software, not just games, is now developed in this way.

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There's a saying that's often repeated in software engineering (my job): 'Plan to throw one away you will, anyway.' Meaning make a prototype and don't be surprised if you need to change everything about it. Metroid Prime 4 was originally announced in 2017, only for Nintendo EPD general manager Shinya Takahashi to reveal in 2019 that development had been restarted under Retro Studios. This approach, according to the former Retro Studios staffer, is very common in Japan, where business deals are more informal and вЂњhandshakeyвЂќ in contrast, western publishers don't tend to trust developers as much, he says, and are often fearful that a dev might walk away with a prototype and team-up with another publisher.ДЄs part of the same interview, Mathews also spoke about how he was disappointed by the Wii. ItвЂ™s all about risk/reward, where you put your risk and where you see your reward. Nintendo famously likes to take risks with prototypes Mathews notes that, because many of the company's games are made by internal teams, prototypes are often considered to be 'sunk costs' until a product makes money. It ends up negating a lot of what youвЂ™re doing in the prototype anyway because you still have to figure out how much the whole thing is going to cost for this thing that you really donвЂ™t know much about.

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Mathews served as the Lead Technical Engineer on the Metroid Prime trilogy and has been speaking to the Kiwi Talkz podcast about their development.Дuring the chat, Mathews touched upon the key differences between developing for a publisher in the west and in Japan, noting that Japanese firms are more likely to take risks with prototypes before entering into full production, which is a much more beneficial way to work:ДЄ lot of the way that deals get structured is that want вЂ“ when youвЂ™re going to do a prototype вЂ“ they want to do an entire long-form agreement of the entire game before you start the prototype.

However, the game's prolonged development is indicative of Nintendo and Japanese companies as a whole, according to former Retro Studios staffer Jack Mathews. We're all still waiting for Metroid Prime 4, and yes, that sucks.

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