I was checking through VGC data, and noticed that not one Metroid game has broken 3 million! Last gen, I owned only a Gamecube (yes, no PS2 :(), and I distinctly remember Metroid Prime 1 & 2 being some of the most impressive games on the console. Although, the multiplayer in Echos lacked, the single player as superb. Sometimes I wish Metroid got better sales, Nintendo fans should learn to appreciate this game more. <_<; Sometimes, I wish Sony stole the franchise! >:D Bwahahaha, I kid I kid.

Thoughts? Discussion?? 

1. The Metroid Prime games for the GameCube do not have an online multiplayer. Last Gen online gaming for Consoles were the new thing and games that had a multiplayer enjoyed very good sales. This fact alone lost the Metriod Prime games sales.

2. The Metroid Prime games are FPAs not FPSs. This lost sales for the series.

What's left in the sales department is what the games sold. Let's not forget that the IP had been MIA for 8 years until the release of Metroid Fusion for the GBA. Metroid Prime came later. This meant that new gamers from the N64 on to the Gamecube had to be reintroduced to the Metroid IP. If Nintendo had developed a Metroid game for the N64. I believe the series would have developed a larger following.

Note: The sales of the Gamecube may have also contributed to the low sales of the series.

i approve of this thread. Seriously, i think it deserves more, but i dont think its going to happen with the other M =l

Well, the thing about the Metroid series is that, while Nintendo fans routinely put it on the same upper echelon of Nintendo games along with Mario and Zelda (and it most certainly is in terms of quality and gameplay), Metroid never really had the things that made the former 2 series huge system sellers, and that is mass market cross-over appeal (mainly Mario) and name recognition (both Mario and Zelda).

Plus, with the exception of the first Metroid, (and to a certain extent, Metroid Prime), the Metroid games were mainly released later in their respective console's life cycle almost under the radar, as opposed to being a flagship featured launch title or post-launch title like most Mario and Zelda games have been for their respective consoles, so that has had a negative impact on their lifetime sales as well.

And of course there's also advertising... Nintendo will advertise the shit out of anything and everything Mario-related, and Zelda usually gets a pretty big advertising boost as well for each major release.... Metroid, not so much... witness the less than stellar Prime 3 sales on the Wii for what was easily the best title up to that point released on a system that people were still fighting tooth and nail over. To put things in perspective... Halo 3, which launched just a month after Prime 3, sold nearly double the units in its first week in NA alone than Prime 3 has sold LTD world wide... that's the power of advertising!

Of course it deserve more sales, i think Ninty will correct this with Metroid Other M because this is a Huge tittle for being a collaboration with Team Ninja and being more than 4 years in development, so i expect a huge advertizing campaing for this game......

If Ninty Advertise this as this game deserve i think it will become easily in the best selling Metroid tittle

ya it deserves more sales, but it seems destined for the 1-2 million sales region.

it deserves more attention from Nintendo too.

Thing is Metroid is one of those games that many people find too difficult and get frustrated with in the endless searching and what not. Which is exactly what appeals to people like me and other fans. Its the massive puzzle concept that is Metroid.

Pretty sure everyone thinks that.

But hey, at least it's selling well enough to keep Nintendo happy.

I actually think that with the new style of play (2D NES control style that worked great with NSMBWii, coupled with remote-only 1st person mode), it'll be more accessible to the casual/mass market of Wii owners, and coupled with Nintendo (hopefully) advertising the hell out of this game, it could very well be the first Metroid game to break the 3 million barrier in WW sales.

In fact, I'm going to go out on a limb right now and say that Other M will do 750k week 1 in total worldwide sales MINIMUM!