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curl-6 on 12 February 2016
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Wyrdness said:
curl-6 said:

You can't prove any of that. And if people really were so turned off by it, sales would have plummeted after the first few weeks, yet I'm pretty sure it didn't sell all of it's 2.82 million in a few weeks. There are a multitude of possible reasons that could have contributed to Prime 2's lower sales. It's widely regarded as a significant step down in quality from the first, for a start. All we know for sure are the resulting numbers, and on Gamecube Metroid comfortably outsold Donkey Kong, making the assertion that DK would always sell more in the same system provably false.

People weren't turned off by it they realized it's not a Halo style shooter, no game was like it so it had to be played to understand why. Here's a reason why Echoes dropped in sales, people knew at that point what type of game it was, it's also not a case that it's widely regarded as a step down it's seen as excelling in some aspects better than the original while falling short in others, for example the boss battles were superior in Echoes, but exploration is lacking.

Prime was also the first 3D Metroid game and first console game in close to 10 years so it had added hype on top of people thinking it was going to be like the sci-fi shooters hitting the industry at the time. He's not wrong in what he says DK would outsell Metroid on any system, even if you bring up the GC with Prime the exception doesn't offset DK blowing away Metroid on every other platform, SNES, GB, GBA, DS, Wii etc.. In fact on Wii DKCR by itself outsold Corruption, Trilogy and OM combined, the series is great but it's niche and that's how it is.

I'm would bet DKTF would have still outsold any Metroid game for Wii U regardless of selling lower than expected, ironic that lower then expected numbers are what Metroid normally manages.

Prime is widely considered one of best games ever made. Prime 2 isn't.

And he is wrong, because Metroid outsold Donkey Kong on Gamecube. That single fact makes him demonstrably wrong, and nothing else can change that.