Nintendo top current franchises: 8 million WW sales potential or higher (Halo level): Mario Pokemon Nintendogs Animal Crossing Brain Age Wii-brand 4-8 million WW sales potential (Gears of War is in this range...) Zelda Mario Kart (could be on the high end of this range...) Smash Bros. 2-4 million WW sales potential (anything of this level is still a highly important release... Like say Fable, and maybe Forza or PGR...) Metroid WarioWare Mario Party Paper Mario Yoshi Other Mario spin-offs (Luigi?, Some sports titles) Big Brain Academy Various Pokemon spin-offs Star Fox, Pikmin and Donkey Kong (Big "maybes" similar to Forza and PGR) Long and short of it is... I don't think Nintendo is worried about having a "Halo killer." I think they have been unfortunate to have all three Metroid Prime games debut opposite Halo games, making comparisons unavoidable. But they've got Halo-sized franchises out the wazoo. Nintendo talks constantly about Nintendo being the disrupter, and Metroid is exactly that, it's there to disrupt and 'steal' sales from Halo, not go head to head, but to cut a chunk out of it. Uh... That's not really what disruption means. Yes, they don't go head-to-head, but no, they don't care about "stealing" or "taking a chunk" of existing MS customers. That sounds like fighting MS in the "red ocean."
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
