Innovation in software is the source of Nintendo's decline

[LordTheNightKnight]

RolStoppable said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

RolStoppable said:

Screenshots (which were also on the back of the packaging) and videos showing a first person perspective and something that is easily identified as some sort of gun. Heck, to this very day some people still call Metroid Prime a FPS. They obviously haven't played any of the games, but it shows how easy it is to confuse the series with a FPS.

That just means some classify it as that genre, not that perhaps a million or more bought it expecting another Halo or Goldeney.

Plus you obviously didn't notice how much disappointment was expressed over Prime 2, which can hurt word of mouth, while Prime 1 did NOT have loads of complaints that it wasn't another Halo or Goldeneye. Some wished it controlled more like those, but they did not claim the game sucked because of that.

It's certainly not a million or more as the initial sales of Metroid Prime were less than that. I would say that the hype surrounding the game got more people to buy the game than the misbelief that it could be a FPS. In either case, many people who bought Metroid Prime (including those who knew what the game was about) ended up not liking the game all that much, because otherwise Echoes would have opened with much higher numbers and bad word of mouth can't hurt initial sales of a game, because bad word of mouth didn't exist at that point.

More than one million people had bought Metroid Prime in the USA when Echoes launched to sales of a good 200k in November 2004. The main point I am making is that Metroid Prime's sales were inflated by several factors, because how else do you explain such a weak start for the sequel's sales? All due to waning interest in the Gamecube itself? More like many Metroid Prime owners felt that this wasn't the type of game they like (which they couldn't know before they purchased it as MP was the first of its kind).

You're claiming sales of Prime 1 past the initial one somehow didn't hurt legs but did hurt the sequel? Lack of legs hurts the first game. Plus what you claim would have had a huge backlash, and it just got the typical fanboy whining.