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I kept wondering, and in fact am still wondering, how the regular Nintendo Switch version will compare.

In short, Metroid Prime 4 is going to be a looker when it launches later this year.

Metroid Prime 4 Switch 2 screenshot showing Samus with a new purple visor

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It’s both shockingly responsive and not as annoying to use as it might seem in videos.

You move it back, and it’s a traditional Joy-Con 2 controller.

“But why would you swap on the fly like this in the first place?”

Samus walks through a cave with green grass in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, with her gun arm raised

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Let’s take the boss at the end of a demo as a prime example.

Sure, almost certainly.

People are going to have to be able to do it on the Nintendo Switch, right?

Samus approaches a door in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond on Switch 2

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Samus walks through a forest corridor in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond on Switch 2

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A glowing red enemy leaps at Samus as she blasts at it in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, atop some sort of ancient ruin on Switch 2

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Exploring an ancient ruin in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. Samus blasts an enemy lying on a platform sending it flying on Switch 2

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Samus explores the outside of an ancient ruin in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, approaching a bridge that leads to a much larger structure in the distance on Switch 2

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Two enemies crouch at the edge of a platform in an ancient ruin in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, as Samus blasts at them on Switch 2

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Samus in her morph ball form in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond on Switch 2, rolling through a forested area

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