One Year Later, Metroid Samus Returns Still Not Sold Over 500k

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curl-6 said:

GoOnKid said:

Wel, at least it's better than it's source material.

Help me out on this one. I thought SR was announced at a Tree House and they also announced MP4 just the next day or even the same day. So there is no downside in buying SR as Nintendo had already been settled to make a game for the Switch. I don't understand you.

I didn't want to give Nintendo any money for 3DS games as I didn't want to encourage them gimping future games (not just Metroid) by putting them on 3DS instead of Switch.

Gimping? They're CLEARLY moving on to the Switch and phasing the 3DS out. That 2017 Nintendo Direct was all Switch, the didn't announce any 3DS stuff until the Treehouse stream where they revealed Samus Returns... AFTER they announced Metroid Prime 4... for the Nintendo Switch.
The latest Nintendo Direct was about 36 minutes long, they spent barely 5 minutes on the 3DS on games we already knew about beforehand, and the other 31 minutes on the Switch.

The only games that are getting released on the 3DS now are remakes that already have engines and assets on the 3DS from previous games so they spend minimal, very little resources into making them (Mario & Luigi and Luigi's Mansion; In fact, those games because those are being outsourced to other developers. So, Nintendo is barely lifting a finger there.) and 3rd party titles... that also have engines and assets from previous games on the system (Persona Q2). All to make a quick buck with minimal time and resources spent making them while the major 3rd party developers like Atlus have moved on to the Switch for the real big guns (SMT V). All of Nintendo's first party development teams and all the Japanese 3rd parties (plus the Western 3rd parties who were non-existent on 3DS) have moved on to the Switch. One little remake for the 3DS to extend its life just a little bit is not going to stop your 10 other Switch games that you're looking forward to, plus many more that will come in the future.

It's so obvious where Nintendo's resources, manpower, and priorities lie that even Stevie Wonder can see it.