Nintendo Offers Metroid And Mother 3 Fans Some Very Slight Hope

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bunchanumbers said:

Veknoid_Outcast said:

I love me some Metroid but relative to other Nintendo series it is niche. It can't hold a candle to the selling power of Pokémon, Animal Crossing, Mario Kart, Super Mario, etc. Zelda's a bigger seller. Smash is a bigger seller. Heck, Splatoon is a bigger seller, based on what we've seen so far.

Its not about selling power. Its about showing fans that Nintendo is serious about making quality games and not just the annual franchises and the same old.

Also, imo, Metroid has been misused in terms of potential selling power.  Now is the perfect time to resurrect Metroid Prime.  People love scifi, exploration, etc.  Give it that and a story like Fusion and great graphics and you could sell that all day.  Also, worth pointing out that with Monolith in their fold they have an excellent team of monster designers to help with enemy designs.  And with regards to controls, beauty of the Switch is options.  As we have seen with Arms, Nintendo can and will provide both traditional and motion based controls.