I go to bed for eight hours, and what happens? A rumor of a Metroid Prime Trilogy for the Wii pops up. According to GoNintendo's source, a SKU for the title had appeared in the computer system of a "certain retailer."
Could it be? All three Metroid Prime games in one convenient package? In a statement to CVG, Nintendo has shot down the idea saying its "Purely rumor and speculation." In other words, "Pictures or it didn't happen."
Some people have speculated that this SKU could be the original two titles revamped for the Wii, and repackaged with the Wii game Metroid Prime 3 on one disc. To that, I say "No way, buster." For one, I can't imagine that all three games would fit on one disc, and to go back and force Wii remote controls into GameCube titles is really not Nintendo's style. They're not Capcom, after all.
If this does exists, it's more likely a discounted packaging of the three separate SKUs in an attempt to clear out some inventory that's been collecting dust.
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8:51 AM on 04.28.2008
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It will be a good way for the folks who've been wanting to play the games to get em done.
But for christs sake I hope Nintendo actually does something more than rehash a bunch of old shit. I'm really starting to despise my Wii.
...ok I'm lying but I won't be heart broken over it not being created.
Are you serious? Do you work in a Church? Wait ... no. Really?
Honestly, I think the original Metroid Prime is amongst the very best games ever created.
GC discs only held a max of 1.8GB each and Prime 3 on Wii came on a single layer DVD so it had to have been under 4.5GB.
Even assuming all three games filled their discs that's still only 8.1GB, enough to fit on a 9GB dual layer DVD.
And they could optimize it even more being that all three games used a lot of the same music and assets.
Personally I hope it doesn't happen though. Nintendo really shouldn't be continuing with the last gen ports at this point. It's getting ridiculous. Metroid Prime 3's biggest problem was that it was no different than its predecessors. I feel like I've already played the first two games with waggle anyway.
Is the next Zelda game going to be a port of Wind Waker with waggle added? And then they could re-release Super Mario Sunshine. And then Pikmin 1 and 2 in a bundle.
That's Nintendo for you though, it's the same policy that got us through the entire GBA era and 2 years of the DS before they decided to make an actual new Mario game. Re-releasing old crap is a lot more cost efficient.
anyway don't want this to happen, as much as I liked Metroid Prime 3 (my favorite of the three) I wanna see Retro create something original.
Well done sir, well done.
That seems much more likely than upgraded ports of the first 2 games. I think if they were going to do that, they'd sell them individually.
retro wouldn't have to do the port, it's basically just copy pasting corruption's control scheme to the earlier titles.
Aaahh Samus..... i dread to see what the slash fanboys/girls have done to you...
Okay, I don't know that, but it sounds likely.
gamecube mini DVD's have a total max capcity of 1.5 GB (3 500mb cd games in the old days.) 1 dreamcast GD-rom for ports like sonic adventure 2, fit with 500mb left over for the extra content.
Obviously they are not full size DVDs//
As we know from the famous "WII disc read error" issue the first and only dual layer DVD game is smash bros brawl. A dual layer single side DVD-9 format can hold 8.54GB of crap.
so because of that statement from nintendo we know Metroid prime 3 is a single layer DVD disc. (or look at the bottom it is not as gold since the secound layer is not there to make it appear more gold.)
the format formats single layer games on ps2/wii is DVD-5 that is 4.7gb of data.
so
total 2 metroid prime games on gamecube can go higher than 3GB
1 one wii game that is on a single layer disc cant go higher than 4.7gb,
Total around 7gb.
All three games will fit on 1 dual layer DVD-9 wii dvd disc.
with about 2gb left over for extra features or content.
I don't know what version you're talking about, but when I play The Orange Box on the 360, it all comes on one disc.