Metroid: Other M sales predictions thread

[darthdevidem01]

Khuutra said:

oni-link said:

This shelving thing for Metroid is still idiotic...it sounds like the same dumbass people who were saying that Nintendo should/might go software a la Sega because N64 and Gamecube were not successful!!!  All this is just a bunch of wishful thinking from anti-Nintendo fanboys who are just butt hurt that the Wii is kicking their consoles collective ass!!! C'mon let's get real if it wasn't for the piracy issue and lazy 3rd party efforts Nintendo will kick their competitor's ass so hard they'd be smelling what they had for breakfast.  I' m not even gonna comment on this again as this is just sounding a bit too juvenile and only an idiot would think a profitable series will get shelved!!! 

Don't condescend to people in this topic, especially when you're wrong.

Profitability isn't the only thing that determines whether or not Nintendo might back off of a series for a while. They expected Other M to double the sales of Corruption - essentially matching the first Metroid Prime, and even surpassing it. If it ever sells a third that much it will be a miracle.

Shit, Nintendo shelved 2-D Mario from the SNES days all the way up through New Super Mario Bros. Do you really think they're above backing off Metroid for a while?

I'm not saying it will happen - I think it won't - but pretending that the Metroid continuation is a foregone conclusion (especially a continuation in a demonstrably failed direction like Other M) is presumptuous.

They only shelved 2D mario because of the "ZOMGZ 3D HYPEEEEE" back in the 1990's.

And even in a lot of the 2000's

But now with the Wii they can bring 2D back cus they can't compete graphically with PS360.

2D Mario being shelved for so long had reasons, and good ones. But was a bad decision, I can only wonder how much New Super Mario Gamecube would have helped the gamecube....