Good news for Wii owners who missed out on the awesome Metroid Prime Trilogy deal, despite being discontinued you might still be able to find new copies out there. The catch is, you have to be willing to travel for them. While out of town and visiting Hayward, Wisconsin, I happened to stop by a local Pamida. Imagine my surprise in seeing a new copy of the Metroid Prime Trilogy Collector’s Edition for $49.99.

Nintendo released the Metroid Prime: Trilogy on August 24, 2009 and contained three games. It has the enhanced versions of the GameCube games Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, which were remastered to use Wii nunchuk and remote controls among other things, and the Wii game Metroid Prime 3: Corruption on a dual-layer disc. The collection was discontinued in North America and Australia in January, 2010…

Sad news Wii owners. One of the best deals for the system is going to be a lot harder to find in stores. Nintendo has stated that it is no longer shipping Metroid Prime: Trilogy, a compilation of Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption on one Wii disc. It’s a shame, since buying it got you three great games for only $49.99.

Blog Coffee with Games first made the discovery and heard firsthand from Nintendo that Metroid Prime: Trilogy was always a limited release game. So this means now, if you want it, you have to search for a used copy of it. Of course, now that it’s out of print expect prices to sky-rocket.

This doesn’t mean you’ll never be able to play the three games on your Wii if you can’t find Metroid Prime: Trilogy. It just means you’ll have to pay quite a bit more for them…

The Game Cube games Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes have been updated for the Wii. They’ve been touched up here and there, they’ve been converted to widescreen and they’ve been blessed with the WiiMote-Nunchuck combo. To top it off, they’ve been bundled with Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, placed on one dual-layer disc and given perhaps the best packaging yet seen in the US With all this, Nintendo and and Retro Studios have given us the best deal available on the Wii.

Even if you’ve played all these games before, it’s a package all Wii gamers should own.

From the operating table to the depths of space we go as we continue our quest for Wii franchises that’ll launch new gamers into the realm of hard core. Metroid is one of those rare games that has grown comfortably with the times. Since switching to 3D, the games have always been hampered by somewhat cumbersome controls. Freed from this limitation by the Wiimote/Nunchuck combo, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption suddenly performed the way its protagonist—bounty hunter Samus Aran—is portrayed: quick, fluid, and natural.