From fiscal results:
Will hopefully leg it out to 3!!
Will hopefully leg it out to 3!!
don't think it'll have quite the legs the evergreens do, but passing 3 is a great result!Shit, 5 million+ here we come.
Can't wait to see how Prime 4 does.
IF IT EVER RELEASES
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.Warioware sold 1.24m. I wonder if that's considered bad to Nintendo
I totally forgot this game came out.Warioware sold 1.24m. I wonder if that's considered bad to Nintendo
Warioware sold 1.24m. I wonder if that's considered bad to Nintendo
(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.Certainly an accomplishment for the franchise.
That said, a 2.7% attach rate seems abysmal vs games like Luigi's Mansion 3 at 11%.
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.weird to think that this will be the first Metroid game to outsell the first F-Zero game.
yep, no Metroid has ever sold more than the first F-Zero until now.
weird to think that this will be the first Metroid game to outsell the first F-Zero game.
yep, no Metroid has ever sold more than the first F-Zero until now.
I think there's a big difference between a core metroid title and a mario spinoffCertainly an accomplishment for the franchise.
That said, a 2.7% attach rate seems abysmal vs games like Luigi's Mansion 3 at 11%.
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?
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.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. :-/
Certainly an accomplishment for the franchise.
That said, a 2.7% attach rate seems abysmal vs games like Luigi's Mansion 3 at 11%.
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.
2nd best selling metroid game, will be number 1 very soon.