Nintendo trying to figure out ehy Metroid Other M didn't sell

[mhsillen]

Mr Khan said:

mhsillen said:

I have this bad feeling that nintendo suits are out of touch.  they will attribute poor sales and missed expectations to the wrong things.

They made a mistake of alienating a major portion of metriod fans like me and made it a niche title

Metroid is already a niche title. The majority of games in the franchise are stuck in a box of 1-2 million sales, and this was clearly an attempt to break out of that box, which is equally clear to have failed (though not spectacularly. It'll cruise to a million handily enough, but still on the low end for the franchise thus far

There is significant question as to how the suits will interpret it, though i think in this case the results are clear: the most controversial changes were the ones generally disliked

The question is if they mandate that the entire gameplay system of Other M be trashed along with the increased focus on story. Loss of the former would be quite tragic.

Niche maybe but they are going to get half the sales they could of got if they had made it for everyone not just teenage boys