| Medisti said: It makes me very sad to admit that it probably won't light up any sales charts. All this waiting for a new Metroid, and all that will happen is we Metroid fans will once again be reminded that though vocal, we are the minority. |
Well most Metroid fans nowadays grew up on the 3D titles.
The 1.5-2 million audience of Metroid is nowhere near as bad as people make it up to be, especially when you adjust the budget of the series down to a 2nd tier Nintendo scale.
Whether the game gets 500k or 1.5 million sales, I'd imagine it will give Nintendo a profit. I would like to see how well Fire Emblem Echoes : Shadows of Valentia does. Metroid would probably do slightly worse than that.
I never liked this whole "Metroid is less popular and less significant" argument. Again, 1.5-2 mil is NOT a small audience unless you compare it to Nintendo's ridiculous average. Nintendo also didn't do a good job of trying to bring it to the mainstream for 7 years. This argument really sprung up because a lot of the big Nintendo channels wanted to make excuses so that if Nintendo didn't announce a Metroid title they could excuse it. In reality there isn't an excuse, Nintendo just sucks at their 2nd tier catalog.
And focusing on niche titles can in fact boost a brand. Look at Last Guardian. If Nintendo makes a strong case for Metroid being a must have, it will sell.
Im going to predict 500k - 1 mil
