Biggest issue with Nintendo for you

[zorg1000]

LMU Uncle Alfred said:

zorg1000 said:

Well to be fair they supported the hell out of Metroid from 2002-2010.

2002-Metroid Prime, Metroid Fusion

2004-Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, Metroid: Zero Mission

2005-Metroid Prime Pinball Yay, pinball

2006-Metroid Prime Hunters Eh, it was ok..

2007-Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

2009-Metroid Prime Trilogy  Excellent Trilogy collection, but the games already came out.  MP1 and 2 getting motion controls doesn't make this a new entry or anything.

2010-Metroid: Other M I like this game personally, but the general Metroid fandom has it out for this game, so it's a difficult one to pass off as a success or a true to the core Metroid game. There hasn't been another Metroid game in 6 years after this game so I wonder how Nintendo thought of it.

They gave the series strong support on GC/GBA/Wii/DS and with the exception of the first Prime, none of them passed the 2 million mark and some of them even failed to hit 1 million.

Looking for the level of quality of a Metroid game that the series has from 1994 to 2004.

Not saying that any of your statements are wrong, but they dont really negate what i said.

Nintendo released the original Metroid trilogy from 1986-1994 and each sequel sold less than the last. Super barely sold half of the original despite being widely considered as one of the greatest games of all time.

After that Metroid had an 8 year break and upon its return in 2002, Prime & Fusion basically sold as well as Metroid 1 & 2. That recovery didnt last long and the series once again saw a big decline, with all but one subsequent title selling less than Super. Prime 2/Prime 3/Other M averaged about half the sales of Metroid/Prime and same goes for handheld releases with Zero Mission/Hunters selling about half as much as Metroid 2/Fusion.

As much as i love Metroid (tied with Zelda as my favorite franchise) i cant really blame them for putting the series on the backburner when its really not that big of a seller.