| ckmlb said: @Happy Squirrel Your point is what? Did I say MP 1 and 2 didn't sell? I said Metroid Prime will sell good but not even close t Halo, Smash Bros. or Mario. Look at the sales of Metroid Primes and compare them to Mario and Super Smash sales on the Gamecube. Both Metroids combined sold 4 million. One Halo alone doubled those numbers on a similar install base worldwide. Where did I claim Metroid Prime isn't a good game? You listing me the scores of the last two games is great and all but we all know scores and sales don't go hand in hand. Listing the great lineup of games on other platforms is pretty pointless. If you own a gamecube why would you be choosing between Metroid Prime and GTA or Halo unless you have 2 or more consoles? I think you should show the Metroid Prime scores when they come out to the Wii people who are complaining about the 'bias' against the Wii from game reviewers. |
Metroid Prime is probably the game which sells best to the "core" gamer audience out of all of Nintendo's published games; how many people in the "Core" gamer demographic do you know that don't own 2 consoles or a PC? Hell, even the Nintendo DS launched that month and many of Nintendo's early adopters would have bought that and impacted sales ... On top of all of that 2004 was really when third parties were starting to abandon the Wii at a rapid pace (after this point in time the vast majority of third party games that were released with a average review of 80% or higher were multi-platform games and mostly sports games).
Basically, Metroid Prime 2 was doomed from the start ...
My point was that I think you (and many other people) are grossly underestimating Metroid Prime 3; it is released a full month before the next highly anticipated game is released (Halo 3), over 2 months before the next highly anticipated Nintendo game (Super Mario Galaxy), and it is the first game released of the best half-year line-up Nintendo has ever released. Metroid Prime 3 will be in the top 10 best selling games of 2006 and will likely be in the top 5. Certainly, Halo 3, Super Mario Galaxy and Smash Bros. Brawl will (potentially) outsell it but I see few other games which will approach its sales levels; in fact I see no other exclusive game for any platform which will match its sales.
I could be wrong, but I don't think I am ...
