mZuzek said:
Because you apparently don't really understand the meaning of circumstance. Of course it matters how much other 3DS games have sold last year, because if they all do underwhelming numbers that means the userbase is mostly done buying new games and as such it makes sense that Samus Returns would also suffer as a result. Prime Trilogy was also never going to sell too well, for incredibly obvious reasons - it's just a compilation, most people who already owned the 3 games wouldn't bother with it -, and also because it was undershipped. The Wii being in its prime days means Nintendo wouldn't care to spend money on marketing a Trilogy release of a 2m+ seller (at best) franchise, if they were also making loads of casual games they knew would sell dozens of millions if advertised correctly, which they did. Also Prime Trilogy being a compilation, I'm pretty sure it was quite profitable as they didn't spend much money making it. Samus Returns was obviously a bigger investment, but still far from being a high-budget game, as it is a 3DS game and those are cheap to make in general, especially in this day and age. That, and I'm sure Nintendo themselves knew this wasn't going to do gangbusters (it had everything going against it, you'd have to be incredibly blind to not realize that), so they prepared accordingly. Excuse me. |
First off the circumstance was that a bunch of 3DS games released last year were a bunch of spin-offs, most of which got mixed-to-fair reviews and most people were'nt really excited about to begin with. Despite all that did you read the recent article? 3DS had some of it's best months last year.
SR is a remake of a game most people haven't even played so "it's just a remake" argument doesn't cut it, after all it did generate hype because SR is essentially a new game. It received more than favorable reviews, won awards and was showed during multiple directs, even it's E3 video (which was shown after E3) got over 2m views. Here is the game, where are the whining fans?
Remake or not, SR is the Metroid game fans were asking for all these years, now we finally got it and it sells crap yet here you are defending it then after MP4 does just as bad you'll be the first bitching on how Nintendo doesn't care about Metroid.
I thought my earlier comment was just a joke but damn i didn't even have to try. By your logic compilations, HD remasters or remakes don't do well because most people already played them... First of why would Nintendo even make an updated port if it wasn't going to do well? Where were you last generation when updated ports, HD collections and remasters was the trend, living under a rock? When even a 3DS remake of a 18 year old Zelda game does better than Prime Trilogy it says a lot more about it's fanbase than the game itself. You of all people here should be much smarter than that dude.
