Miyamoto “didn’t care” if Metroid Prime was cancelled, according to a former Retro Studios developer

We bring an interesting message related to one of the most outstanding games in the Nintendo catalog. We are talking in this case regarding Metroid Prime.

Specifically, we have been able to learn interesting information from the former developer of Retro Studios John Whitmore. He has claimed that Shigeru Miyamoto he didn’t care much regarding the development of the game.

Details have been shared with Did You Know Gaming and he added that Nintendo had to overcome many obstacles in its development until they got the help of Retro Studios. Despite this, he claims that Miyamoto “He did not care” if the title was canceled because it was not a franchise created by him.

Despite this, we must bear in mind that at least laterMiyamoto does seem to have attached importance to the project because he was instrumental in changing it to a first-person perspective and creating the control scheme.

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