What's Next For the Metroid Series?

[sapphi_snake]

Stefan.De.Machtige said:

Look at the sales of metroid. Nintendo had excellent sales for Zelda and mario this generation, but none for metroid. It needs to expand its audience. Just look.

 

1	Metroid Prime (GC) Nintendo	1.98	0.12	0.73	2.83
2	Metroid (NES) Nintendo	1.35	1.04	0.34	2.73
3	Metroid II: Return of Samus (GB) Nintendo	0.86	0.56	0.34	1.76
4	Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Wii) Nintendo	0.89	0.07	0.60	1.56
5	Metroid Fusion (GBA) Nintendo	1.08	0.18	0.29	1.55
6	Super Metroid (SNES) Nintendo	0.58	0.71	0.13	1.42
7	Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (GC) Nintendo	0.84	0.07	0.38	1.29
8	Metroid Prime Hunters (DS) Nintendo	0.58	0.11	0.00	0.69
9	Metroid Prime: Trilogy (Wii) Nintendo	0.41	0.00	0.11	0.52
10	Metroid Prime Pinball (DS) Nintendo	0.21	0.02	0.00	0.23
11	Classic NES Series: Metroid (GBA) Nintendo	0.00	0.07	0.00	0.07

 

If Other M fails, Samus could be shelved for a while - maybe a  gen - or go handheld only. It went with more action and linearity for a reason. The scanning and backtracking in the last metroid felt like too much work - at least for me.  It needs to sell.  This game seems more open, straight forward, then the last. I think it has a good chance of having succes it. Two million would be really nice.

For any butthurt hoping the game will fail, be wary... it might be a long time before you see Samus again.

Where's Metroid: Zero Mission?