The Official Metroid Other M Thread

[Stefan.De.Machtige]

Khuutra said:

Stefan.De.Machtige said:

I would like to add the following point.

Sakamto stated clearly he wanted to take back Samus and Metroid, with a real story and characterization. In some way it means the outing of the more 'purist' fans - those who favor the shallow bountyhunter type.0 Those fans would never be happy with the new direction.

So the dissent from some fans is more or less planned. Or at least a to be expected consequence of the reboot. Nintendo had to expect this in some way. Time will tell if those lost 'purist' fans are replaced by new and more mainstream fans - Nintendo's clear goal with Other M. 

There is no way they planned for this game to do as poorly as it will.

They planned to devide the  fanbase a bit, while to add new and more mainstream fans. Maybe the plan didn't work. We'll see.

'Doing Poorly' is yet to be seen. Do we even know what the american first week numbers are? Lets' wait six months or a year. How many times did games 'bomb' just to find out it sold more then a million later on.