From fiscal results:
Will hopefully leg it out to 3!!
Will hopefully leg it out to 3!!
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Metroid Dread has shipped 2.74 Million copies from launch-end of december
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don't think it'll have quite the legs the evergreens do, but passing 3 is a great result!
It's gotta pass Prime soon, if it hasn't already. Glad this series is finally hitting milestones again. Dread was my 2021 GOTY.
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Prime's 2.8 million made it damn near an annual franchise for a decade. With Sakamoto clearly reinvigorated in his work in the franchise, and Tanabe back on board with Prime, the Metroid revival is here to stay for quite some time.
Nah, that's a rock solid turnout for WarioWare. Easily the best the franchise has done since Smooth Moves, and it could still potentially surpass that.
Wish it did more than 3M but still strong numbers that should guarantee a sixth game.
I totally forgot this game came out.
It's about half the sales of the really popular ones (DS and Wii), but depending on it's legs it might not end up too far behind. It's far from the worst in the series.
They're low budget games with the occasional hit, so it's hard to call any million sellers "bad". I'm sure they hoped for more but it sounds like it's doing fine (but not particularly great).
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(2D) Metroid will never be as big as the other big Nintendo franchises, no matter how good the game or the marketing is. This being said 3 million is a lock and that's still a fantastic result.
The first one got a disproportionately large push out of the gate. That was before they saw how Mario Kart trounced it without even trying, and realized they didn't need a "cool" franchise to compete with Sega*, lol. The later games never really got the same marketing and promotional backing. Whereas Metroid ended up getting a similarly big push with Prime for similar reasons, and really, selling nearly as much on a platform with less than half the base is pretty impressive.
*(Kinda funny that they even ended up handing the F-Zero off to Sega, lol.)
Without seeing the numbers I'm not surprised. Growing up, virtually everyone had F-Zero. Like anyone who had an SNES was basically guaranteed to have it. I think it might have been a pack-in at some point?
Oooof, those Prime 2 numbers. Why the gigantic dropoff? After Prime 1, you'd think people would be absolutely ravenous for more. I know I was...
In any case, I guess that explains why they're (apparently?) only re-releasing the first one. :-/
I think there's a big difference between a core metroid title and a mario spinoff
it was never a pack-in but it did have the benefit of being a launch game. the one other F-Zero game to be a launch game also sold well (MV which sold a million)
it's one reason i think the only correct time to launch an F-Zero game is as a launch title. the ones that weren't launch titles were the ones that sold so bad the series died.
It had a reputation for being both fairly different and fairly difficult, didn't get *quite* as big of a promotional push, and the GCN was already waning at that point. Prime also had decent runs as a Player's Choice collection title (budget line of best-sellers), as a console pack-in, and as a bundle with Echoes demo, so it had a longer tail than most.
And the reason they're currently only remaking Prime 1 is supposedly that Prime 4 ate up a chunk of the staff, so they didn't have the resources to do all 3. Also supposedly that the scope grew beyond enhanced/HD port or simple remaster. And it *is* specifically for the anniversary of the first Prime anyway. IIRC it's claimed Echoes and Corruption may still happen eventually, but I may be misremembering that.
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It's a niche franchise and a very niche genre, aimed at an audience that already plays these kinds of games.
Attach rate isn't a meaningful metric for games targeting a narrow market. For sales to grow in direct proportion with hardware, the game needs to have near-universal appeal.
For a game like this, the potential audience is capped way, way lower. This is as good as it gets.
there's also a big chunk of people who bounced after the first Prime because they didn't like the control scheme/it wasn't like the other FPS out at the time.
Damn I voted 5M LTD. It might still get there, but I think it will fall short. Maybe Era voting it GOTY will make it sell some extra.
(hey it might get a few dozen copies more)
(hey it might get a few dozen copies more)
