Kenryoku_Maxis said:
SaviorX said:
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.
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Yea, they spent 3 years working on it and didn't even have a million yet to show for it. Expectations from Nintendo were above Prime 3 levels.
They need to focus their efforts on another series for now.
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In all relaity, Metroid Other M probably didn't have the biggest production budget. I mean, they even outsourced a lot of the work to Team Ninja. But more than this, the development staff isn't even half as large as something like Zelda: Twilight Princess and Mario Galaxy. Or even Mario Kart.
Of course, without an actual statement from Nintendo, we won't know exactly its development budget. This is just guessing. And it also doesn't mean they've made a profit on Other M.
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It's not just about the profit. It's about the series doing worse than before, and failing to sell the system and expand the audience.
