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curl-6 on 04 October 2018
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Snoorlax said:
curl-6 said:

Zelda is a much bigger franchise than Metroid, and none of those Zelda games released post-Switch.

Nobody, or no significant amount of people, wanted a 3DS Metroid in a post-Switch world. The sales prove it.

And sorry, but to say a platform with 3 games in the top 75 is relevant is just silly.

The issue here is that you've built up this narrative that "gamers snubbed Samus Returns for no good reason" when in fact they had very good reason to pass on it.

Then why even bring up Zelda if we already knew this? Seriously, your PS2 and FIFA comparisons were already way off to begin with and you're only making your arguments more vague as you go on.

I don't see how passing on a good entry of your favorite game series because it's on a handheld you probably already own is a good reason to pass on it. It only proves that you're not as interested in this series as you've claimed you are. 

I've never said gamers don't support Metroid i said it's fanbase is mostly to blame for it's low sales like most Metroid entries. They always blame Nintendo for not giving us Metroid but when we do get Metroid there loaded with excuses to justify it's low sales. I'm glad you're one of the main ones here to keep proving me right.

A game being gimped by being on obsolete hardware at a time when a vastly superior alternative was available is a perfectly good reason to pass on it. 

If Prime 4 turns out to be superb and still sells poorly, then your argument might hold some water, but for now, your claims are baseless as every Metroid game that has underperformed had clear and obvious reasons for doing so. It's not the fanbase's job to blindly buy every Metroid game Nintendo releases, it's Nintendo's job to convince us why we should, and if they fail in that regard, it's entirely on them.

Me, I'm glad Samus Returns underperformed, it makes me happy to see that Nintendo's choice to put it on the wrong hardware was rightfully punished.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 04 October 2018