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Samus Aran on 02 April 2015
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Soundwave said:
curl-6 said:

Of course things will boost the Wii U; nothing is going to boost it out of third place, but it can and will get hardware bumps when major games come out. Just because they're locked into third place doesn't mean profiting off hardware isn't a priority.


Metroid isn't a big franchise, hate to break it you. Could barely scrape past 1 million even on the 100 million selling Wii. It's small potatoes if we're talking sales. 

Metroid Prime 3 is much closer to 2 million than it is to one million lol.

And Metroid Prime sold nearly 3 million on the GC which puts it in the top ten.

2D Metroid games are probably cheap to make and also sell well.

And since we haven't seen a real Metroid game since 2007 people are desperate for a new one which means sales could be higher again (there were a lot of Metroid games during the GC and Wii era, probably too many. I can think of 2 games I'd rather not have seen released). We all know the Wii's userbase means jack shit when it comes to games like Metroid. The Last of Us wouldn't even have reached a million if it was on the Wii.