RolStoppable said:
The game clearly missed its sales expectations and a good chunk of those copies were sold at discounts, because retailers had to get rid of excess stock. That should be message enough. If it isn't, then Nintendo may consider to replace their executives with monkeys, because they can be paid with bananas and that will help their bottom line. |
The expectations were unrealistic to begin with Metroid has only ever sold at the 1m-1.5m mark on average with only two games passing 2m, Reggie and co misread the whole situation thinking it was going to do numbers in comparison to other high performers of the time when it was only ever going to do Metroid numbers that's why Nintendo aren't rushing out another Metroid because they realize it's never going to be a huge seller that's the only message OM would of sent tbh. An example is Animal Crossing on the Wii wasn't as well recieved but sold 4m plus.
