| Snoorlax said: No it did not do well, currently it still hasn't reached 500k in sales and do I need to remind you that it's not a remaster but a remake on top of that it's essentially an entirely new game and even if it was just a remaster it doesn't make it a cheap project by any means, this is supposed to be a triple A title not some indie game. Metroid never was a cash cow but that still doesn't excuse the terrible sales figures for a 3DS game fans "have been waiting for" we are lucky Sakamoto hasn't giving up on 2D Metroid because Nintendo sure doesn't give a crap about it. I'll say it again Samus Returns sold bad stop using the same old excuses and buy the damn game. |
Well, actually, about that...
According to recently released 3DS NPD sales, Samus Returns sold more copies than Fire Emblem: Shadows of Valentia did in 2017. VGC has SoV listed at 590K sales, so unless VGC has drastically underestimated SoV's sales to date, that would likely put SR at at least 500K, quite possibly as a result of a strong holiday season. If SR reached half a million by the end of 2017, that would certainly put it on track to hit at least Zero Mission numbers, and probably higher.
And keep in mind these are purely physical sales. If SR pulls the 3DS average of 11% digital sales, that'd take an additional 50K onto that. ~550K isn't a bad place to be for a 3DS remake after four and a half months on the market. Not great, but not terrible sales figures.
