Since the release of the Metroid Prime Federation Force E3 trailer the trailer has been viewed 800,000 times and has a whopping 61000 dislikes to it's small 6000 likes. Fans have even gone as far as to starting a petition to stop the game being developed and it's not far off reaching it's goal of 25000 people. That's a large amount of people that have absolute pure hatred for a game. So why all this backlash?
Metroid Prime fans feel like they've been neglected by Nintendo over the years since the Wii U's release. The fan base has received no new I.P and the developers of Metroid Prime games themselves have confirmed their will be no new Metroid Prime game on the Wii U due to Nintendo announcing they have a new console on the way that will be showcased at next years E3. The Metroid Prime developers have said that the next likely chapter in the series will be on the new Nintendo console. Metroid Prime Federation Force in the meantime was meant to be something for the fans to tide them over till then and obviously they're not thrilled with it.
Nintendo could just simply change the name of this game. The game itself doesn't look great by all means but it doesn't look super terrible either for a 3DS game, Nintendo could easily just change the name and the backlash would probably die down to a certain extent. Over the years though we've seen that Nintendo are a stubborn company and they seem to be deaf to their fans so don't expect anything special.
At this point Metroid Prime fans are kinda left out in the cold, they're getting a game that they didn't want and the next proper sequel is probably a good 3 years away. While we wouldn't recommend it, if you are a frustrated Metroid Prime fans and would like to sign the petition this is the Link
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