Metroid Prime 4 Beyond Trailer Confirms Dec 4, 2025 Launch

With one month to go before its release, Nintendo unveiled a new trailer for Metroid Prime 4 Beyond that spotlights gameplay on the Nintendo Switch 2 and confirms the game will launch on December 4, 2025, for both the Switch and Switch 2. The minutelong clip, titled "Survive," intersperses firstperson gameplay, cinematics and snippets of exploration across the alien world of Viewros.

The trailer opens with Samus Aran arriving on Viewros and progresses through a range of environments, from dense jungle and illuminated caves to windblown deserts and a volcanic spire. Gameplay segments show the series' familiar firstperson perspective for navigation, combat and scanning, including instances of Samus opening doors, creating temporary psychic platforms to reach new areas, and engaging both small and larger foes. Enemies glimpsed include wolflike packs and named opponents such as Lamorn, Mechanoid and Psybot soldiers, as well as a boss identified as Aberax.

A prominent new feature is Samus's motorcyclelike vehicle Vi0La, shown traversing open desert expanses and performing a dramatic slide to a halt in a sequence of cinematic shots. The trailer also displays the Switch 2 edition of...