Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - 11th - 17th Sept 2017

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RaptorChrist said:

Barkley said:

I only have VGC figures for these, I assume this is where he got the numbers from too.

Metroid Prime - 42k
Prime 3 - 32k
Other M - 47k
Hunters - 33k

Saying it did "very good" for the franchise seems a bit of a stretch when it's the worst out of the ones vgc has numbers for anyway. It did well though.

Could struggle to get much over 500k lifetime though.

Agreed. I'm fairly good (being modest) when it comes to reading between the lines. The game could have sold 5,000 copies and tbone would have said it did well. He thinks his knowledge of the fact that Metroid doesn't do too hot in Japan sets a precedent that allows all Metroid games to do bad, and thus, do good.

Unacceptable.

Metroid sales used to be good in Japan until Retro started to work on the series. Anyway it is not fair to compare a remake to a brand new game. The only thing you can compare it to is Zero Mission (The other Metroid remake)

However finding Zero Mission's Japan sales is kinda of difficult apprently. The only place I could find show that LTD sales are around 60k. Wikipedia has it at 69K.  However Zero Mission sold bad everywhere as it could not reach a million WW. I think Metroid 2 would be lucky to hit a million if it follows Zero Mission's path.