{"id":396887,"date":"2025-11-22T12:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/396887\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T12:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:22:13","slug":"icymi-metroid-prime-4-beyond-estimated-switch-2-and-switch-file-size-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/396887\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Estimated Switch 2 And Switch File Size Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Metroid Prime 4\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4a54b07d44c8b\/metroid-prime-4.large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/metroid-prime-4.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"531\" alt=\"Metroid Prime 4\"\/><\/a> Image: Nintendo<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re now just weeks out from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/metroid_prime_4_beyond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Metroid Prime 4: Beyond<\/a>&#8216;s anticipated release, and more details about it (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/previews\/metroid-prime-4-beyond-is-great-but-i-want-to-kill-one-of-its-characters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">including some previews<\/a>) are beginning to circulate online.<\/p>\n<p>In case you missed it, the estimated digital file sizes for the Switch and Switch 2 Edition of Samus&#8217; long-awaited adventure have also gone live on the eShop and official Nintendo website. So, if you didn&#8217;t already know, here&#8217;s what you can expect:<\/p>\n<p>Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Estimated File Size<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Metroid Prime 4: Beyond (Switch) &#8211; <strong>28.9 GB<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Metroid Prime 4: Beyond &#8211; Nintendo Switch 2 Edition &#8211; <strong>31.6 GB<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, these sizes are still classed as an &#8220;estimate&#8221; at the moment and are subject to change before and after release, depending on the patches and updates distributed. The eShop also has Metroid Prime 4&#8217;s Upgrade Pack listed as <strong>1.5 GB<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In comparison, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/metroid_prime_remastered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Metroid Prime Remastered<\/a> (based on the first Prime entry) is just under 7 GB according to the Switch eShop.<\/p>\n<p>As <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/04\/metroid-prime-4-beyond-will-be-a-cross-gen-title-for-switch-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously confirmed<\/a>, the Switch 2 version of Metroid Prime 4 supports higher resolution, faster frame rates, HDR and mouse controls. When in docked mode, players can choose from 4K at 60fps (quality) or 1080p at 120fps (performance). And in handheld\/tabletop mode, the options are 1080p at 60fps (quality) and 720p at 120fps (performance).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Will you be downloading this game on Switch or Switch 2? Have you already pre-ordered Metroid 4 from the eShop? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Related Games<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<dt>See Also<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753583950_71_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Liam Doolan\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Liam is a news writer and reviewer across Hookshot Media. He&#8217;s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Nintendo We&#8217;re now just weeks out from Metroid Prime 4: Beyond&#8216;s anticipated release, and more details about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":396888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[43961,166622,2468,395,36062,158,67,132,5803,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-396887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-icymi","9":"tag-metroid","10":"tag-nintendo-switch","11":"tag-nintendo-switch-2","12":"tag-switch-eshop","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-upcoming-releases","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115593331046035711","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}