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couchmonkey said: If Metroid is out this year AND if it's really great (botw great), it can have an effect too, thou not as much as Pokemon or Zelda or Mario. Hopefully Nintendo has something amazing waiting in the wings, because neither game is a lock for 2018 yet and if Metroid is average or "just good", it will not be enough. |
I'm not expecting Metroid Prime 4 this year but even if it comes, even if it's great, it won't move the needle. In the Nintendo hierarchy (as you rightly imply) Pokemon & Mario are king, with Zelda historically selling far fewer copies worldwide than those and Metroid barely in the race. Sure, all the Nintendo fans here will be buying it, but I'd think that it will sell only Splatoon 2 numbers at best and I don't think anyone buys a Switch for Metroid. It’s also worth bearing in mind that Metroid Prime's strength in the past was that it delivered a shooter on (post-N64) Nintendo systems, and we've already had Doom with Wolfenstein 2 incoming. I don't think a first-person single player game (albeit a system exclusive) is as important now as it was in the past.
