Metroid Dread was officially announced for the Switch during the Nintendo Direct at E3 2021, surprising many people. It received a trailer as well as a gameplay showcase during the Treehouse Live segment of the show, but there is a lot of history behind this game that many people might not know about. Here are five things you probably didn’t know about Metroid Dread.
It Was Originally a Canceled DS Game
If the title Metroid Dread sounded familiar to you when it appeared on the screen during the trailer, there’s a reason why. It was a game that was originally in development for the Nintendo DS, and set to release in 2006.
The title first appeared in an issue of Game Informer magazine in June 2005. There were early E3 press release documents mentioning it that year, but when the game didn’t show up at E3 in 2005, or even 2006, it slowly became forgotten and assumed to be canceled.
Now, 15 years later, Metroid’s producer Sakamoto Yoshio has shared that the title was in fact in development way back then, and said “we gave up on the idea at the time because we felt the technology back then just couldn’t properly bring the concept to life.”
