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Metroid Prime 4 in London Underground: “OUT NOW”?



Please explain this ad.

by orchestar

42 Comments

  1. Jamesatwork16

    Explanation: someone put in the wrong start date for an ad buy!

  2. emeraldbar77

    Might be a bit far-fetched, but maybe they accidentally put it up on 18/06/25 instead of 18/09/25 (which will be a Thursday)

  3. llliilliliillliillil

    The game released. Did you miss it? Literally outsold Mario Kart World in less than 24 hours, it’s insane. 94 Metacritic score and 9.2 User score. It’s honestly incredible, definitely buy it.

  4. dukenewcomb92

    As someone who works in advertising (albeit digital, not out of home) someone has really fucked up and it will probably disappear in the next couple of days.

  5. BOBBIESWAG

    Yeah we have to be getting a general Nintendo direct within the coming weeks

  6. TheAdamena

    Man the ‘Nintendo Switch 2 Edition’ subtitles on all these games looks so crap 😭

  7. leviathab13186

    Looks like someone sent the wrong image file

  8. Odd-University7378

    Includes:
    Support for mouse controls

    Support for up to 4K resolution when playing in TV mode

    Support for frame rates of up to 120 fps

    HDR support

  9. For a brief moment you were in a better timeline

  10. My guess as to what happened here is that the ad was sent as a Photoshop or InDesign file with multiple layers that could be toggled to show different things, and the “OUT NOW” layer was accidentally made visible. This would explain why it looks overlaid onto something else, as I am assuming the thing below it is probably some sort of “coming soon” text which is also set to be visible (since that was the intended text to be shown).

  11. Sea_Dragonfruit_8888

    The worst bit about this picture is the fact that you were in the tube today in this weather, I feel for you man

  12. smashinggames

    funny seeing people accuse this of being AI or a photoshop when this is an easily verifiable image where someone could just go to oxford circus right now or in the morning to check it out for themselves

  13. Top-Edge-5856

    Samus wants you to get out of the train promptly. She’s got places to be!

  14. Background-Sea4590

    I mean, it has to be a mistake, no way they’ll shadow drop it like today. I’ll lose my mind if that happens. But doesn’t make a whole lot of sense between MK:World and Bananza.

  15. Damn Nintendo is about to send whoever made this mistake to impel down.

  16. samcc2013

    There’s a little rectangle behind the right side of the Metroid prime “out now” that isn’t there for Mario kart. Thinking the “out now” layer got accidentally copy pasted on top and it’s actually says “2025”

  17. Someone either released the wrong files to the printer or this got installed too early and a stealth drop is coming

  18. UnlimitedButts

    Mp4 dropping with echoes and corruption remastered

  19. TheRabbitMink

    Well, Britain is well known for its time travellers…

  20. It really is out now, we’ve just been hiding it from you in particular. Not our fault, it was the terms and conditions from Nintendo.

  21. “OUT NOW” looks like it’s a separate installable piece, and whoever put up the advertisement didn’t read the instructions.

  22. Idk why i thought this was a switch 2 launch title

  23. How on earth did this happen? The amount of people this sort of shit has to go through and NOBODY caught it!?

  24. Bradley_Beans

    Can’t you read? It’s asking you to leave.

  25. No way. The first need to do a dedicated direct.

  26. YorkshireRiffer

    “But your ad says: Metroid Prime 4. Out Now.”

    “Ah, they got this all screwed up.”

    *pen scribbling noises*

    “Metroid Prime 4 out? No!”

  27. It’s just a typo. It should be:

    Metro. Out, now!

    Because it’s the last stop, and everybody has to get off.

  28. RedFishStudio

    I just bought a switch 2. Never played any of the Metroid games. Are they worth picking up?

  29. dan_thedisaster

    It’d be amazing if Nintendo just dropped the game.

  30. Robertinho678

    Would be insane if they decide to shadow drop it. I definitely think they’ll release it soon though if those posters are already out in the open. They definitely pulled the trigger too soon, but they had the posters already, and that’s saying something…

  31. okay this means one of two things:

    * we are VERY close to release, because these billboards dont get sent out months in advance
    * this game is shadow dropping during a direct that comes VERY soon

    one way or another this game is probably out by august the latest

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