Metroid: Other M - The Black Sheep....or so we thought

[TheWon]

Kenryoku_Maxis said:

Beuli2 said:

It seems in order to get that 500-1500k range you had to appeal using spin-offs huh, because the lowest selling mainline Metroid is well over 500k above what Other M is.

It depends on what you consider a Spin-off.  because Metroid Prime Hunters was still considered one of the 'Prime' games.  And Metroid Prime Trilogy only sold 700,000.

Also, Sakamoto has already said he's interested in making a new Metroid.  So we really have no basis to say a new one wouldn't come.  And considering the Sakamoto made Metroid games are usually about 4-5 years apart, it could easily be another 3 years or more before its made anyway.

RolStoppable said:

I don't know about that. I would assume that many Metroid fans still bought it anyway, even if they just did it out of curiosity of how bad of a game it really is or to add it to their collection.

I also find it hard to call this game's sales good, it was a fairly big game with a well known brand name and treated as such by Nintendo with their marketing efforts. Besides, the first "bad" game launching after a series of stellar titles usually doesn't show how much the reputation of the brand was damaged. It's the game that comes out afterwards. MOM wasn't that tough of a sale for Nintendo, because fans trusted the name. That is gone now and people will take more of a wait and see approach when it comes to the next installment in the Metroid series.

I won't deny the sales are weaker for the hype put into it.  However, considering its gettling close to the sales of games like Prime 2 and Super Metroid, which were also hyped with major advertising and treated like a 'major' Nintendo title, I don't see how Other M can be considered so much of a failure.  Remember, Super Metroid, the fan favorite, only sold 1.4 million.  If Other M, the fans hated game, can sell close to that lifetime, it may just prove Metroid fans will buy any Metroid game.

Agreed! Also I hope this shows that if anything the Metroid franchise is a B level property maybe even C level. For the game to hit 1 million after all the bad press  I would be amazed. We still know no matter how much Nintendo put into it. It still didn't have a budget bigger than the first Galaxy or a HD game. So selling a million is still good. Nintendo just had hopes it would do more than that.