Metroid Prime Remastered - Gamecube VS Switch [Comparison] 

Boring game

What amazes me more than the remaster is just how good the original still looks. The GameCube was a mighty little system.

The "Remastered" edition that is actually a great full graphic Remake 👀

Metroid Prime was one of the best looking games on the GameCube, and now it’s one of the best looking games on the Switch.

This is how you do a remaster

Prime Remastered is the only game to not only look infinitely better than the original, while looking back at the original also impresses to this day with how excellent it was

It may have taken a thousand years, but Metroid Prime 4 is officially on the way!

I can't believe we got to see Prime 4 yesterday 😭😂 it's real. After all these years, I was doubting it. Definitely going back and hitting the Prime remaster again!

I HUNGER for Prime 2 Echoes getting this treatment.

5:21 These side-by-side upgrades are so big; it almost looks like a fan made a high-end Unreal render for a remaster concept

Press F for the floating rock in front of Tallon IV

After seeing the Prime 4 footage I can't get over the massive tank shoulders 😂

This is more of a remake than a remaster

I think the most impressive part of this remaster / remake was that they kept most of the colors and gloomy vibes intact while still dramatically upgrading the graphical fidelity. Lots of remasters completely change the original artistic vision to brighten things up and make them shiny, like Halo CE Anniversary.

Lined up the side by side comparison so well! Fantastic game!

The biggest praise you can give the devs of the remaster is that when you play it for the first time since 2002 it looks and feels like you remember it. Only when put side by side it’s apparent how vast the improvements really are!! Man, our brains interpolated a huge amount of stuff into those clunky visuals back then. 😂 (Not taking away anything away from MP on GC. It was a technical marvel and still holds up pretty well.)

"Prime 4 looks too good for a switch" -People who have forgotten about this remaster

I think what I find most impressive is just how well the art direction of the original has held up over time.

After seeing the Prime 4 reveal, I feel like the Prime remaster was most likely a test project for the new engine that they’ll also use for beyond because of how similar they look technically

I feel like remasters are not usually this faithful to preserving the soul of the original.

huge difference and the remaster was pretty amazing work actually. I was playing it after the prime 4 reveal yesterday, i played till i got the varia suit i was so excited.

Experiences I will always remember: seeing & playing this, Star Fox Adventures, Rogue Squadron II, and FFX when they finally came out.

I played metroid prime a few years ago with my husband and fell in love with the series! The remake looks phenomenal and metroid prime 4 is going to be so good! I can't wait!

I never played the original, but the remaster looked great and felt like a modern game. Maybe with a touch of a feeling of it being an older game but the original was ahead of its time with that.

The remastered version is exactly how the original looked to me as a kid. This is how a remastered / HD version of a game should be done. Really wish Skyward Sword HD and Twilight Princess HD received this kind of treatment.

You can tell the Switch version looks more advanced, but the GameCube version looks impressive for its time!

It’s forever in my heart. This game has it all. Adventure, mystery, great gameplay and mechanics. Good story, great level design. Interesting enemies and very varied. Good boss fights, graphics and the music, my gosh the music! Have played this game for more then 20x literally! And hearing this tune I can start all over again. No other game has ever accomplished that!

The absolute overhaul of e graphics is amazing!

looks like the most proper 'remaster' . so many games with that remaster description that doesn't look fresh or interesting

Just thinking that the OG Metroid Prime even has more details than the remastered version (light when shooting, mirror in the chozo ruins, light reflections) is just impressive

This game and Crash's remasters are good examples on how to take old games to newer audiences, instead of the lazy compilations that Nintendo do, like All Stars.

masterpiece of a masterpiece (I have 10 copies of the remaster)

Xenoblade Chronicles Wii and Xenoblade Chronicles Remastered Switch, please :D

Very nice comparison. Subjectively, RU-vid videos do not do the justice seeing it eye to PVM or any type of decent CRT with upscale. Something about those boards and chips simply gave it a life of what it was so for the GameCube. Objectively, The switch still proves its possible to keep that love and taste we had when we were kids. I do in hopes see a team being able to capture that same direction if Nintendo approves for a Metroid Prime 2 echoes Remastered.

I’ll never be able to play the original ever again, and I still adored the original when I played it the first time

Amazing to see the difference and the OST. I played the trilogy on the Wii. I think I buy this to replay it before prime 4 comes in 2025

How did I never notice the space pirate station looks like an Anglerfish?! 1:17

Very good remaster but I like the atmosphere of the original game better. A lot of areas are too bright on the remaster, especially in Chozo ruins...

Nintendo needs to give prime 2 and 3 this treatment!

Prefer how shiny her armor was in the original but the remaster is a massive leap. Its the only switch game that doesnt look like shit which is impressive.

This game looks amazing on the Switch. It also looked great on the GameCube, the GC was basically as powerful as the original Xbox. The gameplay feels very similar to the original, it would have been nice if their was more 'kick' when shooting. Thats one thing Halo always got better in that generation, along with the story. Also, I feel like Nintendo got the graphics so great on this re-make because this is the exact same graphical style/'system' they will be using for Metroid 4. At least that's what it looks like from the preview on the Direct. I hope not because I'd rather them show off what the switch 2 can do. But more than likely not; considering this was always being developed on the OG Switch. Just like BOTW on WiiU and Switch.

almost perfect remake. my only issue was how bright the queen parasite fight was. hope mgs3 gets the same treatment but it doesnt look as faithful

Remaster definitely looks good, but there are subtle design changes I think that still make the gamecube version better (in those aspects). I kind of like the scratchy, static-y appearance and the subtle movements in the original game's title screen. The remaster's menu as a result just looks far less stylized and more static without that. It has less life. Which unfortunately brings me to how some of the lighting works. No doubt the remaster's lighting is superior in terms of baked lighting and texture detail is better, too. But the missing dynamic lights from the arm cannon fire in many scenes is unfortunate and the lack of reflections in spots (even if they were done using heavy tricks back then, who cares, it's the end result that matters) also reduces the dynamism of scenes. That said, at least the water motion and effects aren't missing in this version like in the Wii version. And everything else is just outright better looking than the gamecube iteration. I will say I think fixing the (or keeping the fixed) physics bugs was a mistake. It made subsequent playthroughs far better and more interesting. It's like if someone released Super Metroid Remastered and removed all the speed boost tricks to skip sections of the game. That stuff is part of the game and a huge part of the reason the original was so lauded, since it opened the game up in ways beyond just the original mostly linear pathway through it.

Oh man I'm gonna trigger you guys...but I bought this game and I still wanted the original. I hope more remasters do what Xbox did with halo MCC.

it's so weird as a European to see the intro without the voiceover lmao

This and the System Shock remake within two years (for consoles) is pretty amazing

and they sell this for $40

Really wish Nintendo made an actual console again….

Hate me if you want but this didn’t need a remaster. The GC graphics hold up even today!

ITS SAD TO SAY THAT REMASTER IS NOT BETTER

Almost a remake.

Wow the original looks immaculate

La versión de Gamecube no envejeció mal que digamos

It looks even better than Metroid Prime 4 lmao.

whoever dont like this vidiea aint right i tell you what...

when the same day of the remastered, the remastered needs another remaster....is like 2 gen ago!!!

beautiful but... 02:25 did the Power Suit really need a buttcrack contour?

It wasn’t just an upscale. There small details around.

this is a real GOOD photorealistic game, A GAME, dont a playable CGI with hundreds of useless graphics details that distract you what are doing in combat. Nintendo knows what are graphics specifically to videogames, the cause they win playretardion and xfail

I would love to see someone run the OG Metroid Prime on a CRT through S-Video side by side with Prime Remastered running on a 1080p (NOT 4K) IPS monitor. That is a more accurate comparison.

The GC version holds up _so_ well vs the Remastered one. However, it clearly has -nothing- , Ok 😅😄 _very little_ on Beyond. I ,, just want to have some of the stuff that Retro is on (if I can handle it!) when they're going to be squeezing a PS4 inside those Cartridges! 😅

imagine what a talented studio like Retro Studios could do if they weren't hindered by hardware from the stone age

Original looks better IMHO

i hope switch 2 ia not as weak as this console is, remaster not really

More enhanced, nothing special 😐they only need money from us

The Remasterd is brilliant my eyes dancing of happines 🥹😍