Metroid Prime 4: Beyondhas been rated in Korea and has been given a rating of 12 and up. That’s not all that surprising, however, when a game receives a rating somewhere, it’s usually indicative of a release date reveal.
The newly filed ratingincludes an overview of what the game is about, although the short description only includes information that has previously been revealed. It also attributes the 12+ rating to the fact that Metroid Prime 4 includes “mild violence” tied to the weapons Samus will use to battle back against alien life forms.
Metroid Prime 4 rating ups hopes of a release date reveal
And fuels July Nintendo Direct rumors
Again, all expected stuff, but it’s the appearance of the rating that has fans of the series excited.Nintendohas refused to give a narrower window than 2025 for Metroid Prime 4’s release. So we know it’s coming this year, but we still don’t know when. However, a rating for the game popping up not only suggests Nintendo is finally about to give us what we want, but it also fuels rumors that we’re getting a Nintendo Direct at some point this month.
Leakers have claimed the first full Direct since the launch of theNintendo Switch 2is coming by July 31. If so, with its first rating now filed, it seems likely that’s the platform on which Nintendo will finally reveal Prime 4’s release date. It also feels like Nintendo needs a Direct, as now thatDonkey Kong Bananzais here, while we know some of the other first-party games coming our way later this year, like Prime 4, most of them still don’t have firm release dates.
The wait for Prime 4 has been an agonizing one. The fourth game in the series was revealed during the original Switch’s launch year and, while Nintendo would likely never admit it, has seemingly been in development hell. Hence, it taking eight years between announcement and launch, and becoming a cross-gen Switch title somewhere along the way.
That’s right, Metroid Prime 4 is launching on the original Switch too, so no worries if you don’t have a Switch 2 yet.
There was alsothe still unexplained ad for the game that popped up in the London Underground. A big poster for Metroid Prime 4 spotted at a tube station proclaimed the new game was “out now”, but it wasn’t. As for when it might finally get here, with September still suspiciously barren of Nintendo releases, I remain convinced we’ll be playing Prime 4 before we get our hands onPokemon Legends: Z-Ain October.
