Updated sales puts it at 2.9m units.
Metroid Prime was the previous highest selling game at 2.84m.
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Metroid Prime was the previous highest selling game at 2.84m.
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Metroid Dread is now the best selling Metroid game
- Thread starter Benzychenz
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Virtual Console sales are not included (they were low anyway if we trust insiders)
Good game and great news, Dread isn't top of my list in the series but I enjoyed it and glad Metroid is finding some market success for once. Hoping Prime 4 can break out a bit as well.
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Yeah I think Dread's days as #1 will be short lived. Prime 4 will no doubt raise the sales for the series.
Really hope this cement the collaboration between Mercury Steam.
Well, hope they fix their "work culture" as well @ Mercury Steam.
Well, hope they fix their "work culture" as well @ Mercury Steam.
at least put the sauce in the soup
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That's good but also a bit lower than I hoped. I thought it was a given that it was going to be the best selling game in the franchise given the Switch's meteoric success. If an entry on the Switch doesn't become the best selling entry by default then i have to wonder if it's considered a bit of a failure in Nintendo's eyes. Same goes for other franchises on the Switch by this point too.
Either way, Dread was amazing.
Bring on Prime 4!
Either way, Dread was amazing.
Bring on Prime 4!
Very good game, with the best 2D Metroid gameplay to date, in my opinion. Was it worth waiting two decades for? I don't know, as that's a difficult question to answer, but all in all, I'm highly optimistic about Metroid's future. Bring on that Prime remaster, and let's keep our fingers crossed that Prime 4 can deliver in a big way!
When you consider how good previous games were it's criminal that this is the case, but it's also great news for the series and I hope it translates to greater success for the Prime series and future games
I wonder how many people have played it if you include piracy and the SNES Classic.
Always appalling to see how low Metroid games have historically sold.
At least Dread seems to be selling like a real video game.
At least Dread seems to be selling like a real video game.
Even if they were high you could get it for 30 cents at some point on the WiiU, so a lot of the sales would come from that.
I knew people predicting it'd sell 5 or even 6 million were quite a ways off.
But it did feel like Dread being on Switch and being the face of the Switch OLED marketing it had the chance to crack 3 million (and I think it probably will, though that last 100 000 isn't guaranteed).
But yeah, Metroid has historically sold really low compared to other major franchises (even ridiculously good games like Metroid Zero Mission ended up selling less than 100K). The last Animal Crossing game on its own sold about twice as much as every Metroid game combined.
But it did feel like Dread being on Switch and being the face of the Switch OLED marketing it had the chance to crack 3 million (and I think it probably will, though that last 100 000 isn't guaranteed).
But yeah, Metroid has historically sold really low compared to other major franchises (even ridiculously good games like Metroid Zero Mission ended up selling less than 100K). The last Animal Crossing game on its own sold about twice as much as every Metroid game combined.
What do you mean by like a real videogame?
Getting this close to 3m will put it among the best selling metroidvanias to ever exist. Certainly given the price point, this will be the highest revenue one has ever had. Even other darlings of the genre like hollow knight only end up at this level of sales (last update for HK was 2.8m), but that game was... $15 at launch? Whereas metroid was full priced
Here's an overview of the entire Metroid series sales figures, at least for the million sellers.
To give Metroid some credit, while it's true that it has never historically been a huge seller, it at least has had consistency on its side. All of the main original 2D and Prime games have at least sold a million, even god damn Metroid Prime Hunters made it to that point.
The only Metroid branded games that have not sold over a million are the remakes and the meme games like Other M and Fed Force. Like, compare Metroid's trajectory to other sci-fi Nintendo IPs like F-Zero, or Star Fox, and you'll see that it never truely dropped off as hard as those two did.
(kinda glad dread outsold f-zero snes, which outsold metroid prime by a hair hinch, so we no longer have to say that f-zero sold better than metroid lolol)
To give Metroid some credit, while it's true that it has never historically been a huge seller, it at least has had consistency on its side. All of the main original 2D and Prime games have at least sold a million, even god damn Metroid Prime Hunters made it to that point.
The only Metroid branded games that have not sold over a million are the remakes and the meme games like Other M and Fed Force. Like, compare Metroid's trajectory to other sci-fi Nintendo IPs like F-Zero, or Star Fox, and you'll see that it never truely dropped off as hard as those two did.
(kinda glad dread outsold f-zero snes, which outsold metroid prime by a hair hinch, so we no longer have to say that f-zero sold better than metroid lolol)
I imagine that Nintendo looks at the sales as being very satisfying as it not only became the best-selling game in the series in less than a year, it managed to do so at full price the whole way through, as a pretty significant chunk of Prime's sales came in when they dropped it to $20 over the course of several years.
Metroid is always going to hit a pretty hard ceiling as far as total sales are concerned due to the genre itself not being as mainstream, but already being one of the best-selling games ever in that genre is undoubtedly a huge victory, especially as it's only one one platform.
Metroid is always going to hit a pretty hard ceiling as far as total sales are concerned due to the genre itself not being as mainstream, but already being one of the best-selling games ever in that genre is undoubtedly a huge victory, especially as it's only one one platform.
It's absolutely hitting 3 million, that's just a matter of when not if.
I was hoping 3M by now but the difference at this point is truly arbitrary. It should be able to leg it out to that number in due time and it's no less impressive. Metroid is finally the big hitter it deserves to be, and the stage is set for Prime 4. Couldn't have happened to a more fantastic game.
I was being facetious with the comment, all I was getting at was that for all its splendor and fanbase enthusiasm Metroid has sold criminally low. It selling 3m copies finally shows some heft in being a "real" success and not as much of a cult release.
probably tons of people played it through lending out the original carts to each other. I know someone let me borrow their copy for a few days back in the day until I got a copy of my own
Absolutely deserved... Hope it keeps selling for a while. The comeback the series desperately needed, and Prime 4 will have to be absolutely amazing to compete with it.