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

[theRepublic]

JWeinCom said:

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1. Echoes is the first one.  Echoes saw a huge drop in sales.  I did say there were some changes to the formula, but they were by no means major.  Nowhere near major enough to account for sales dropping more than 50%.  When you discount Japanese sales, the two games sold within 50K of each other.  

This is also the lowest fire Emblem has sold within a decade with one exception.  Shadow Dragon, which was another remake, also released towards the end of a console's life. 

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In conclusion then, Nintendo has released 5 remakes or compilations of games since the Switch's release.  Aside from Echoes, Metroid was within 50K of all of them.  Without Japanese sales, Metroid is ahead of all of them, and within 50K of echoes.  All of these games are showing sharp declines from previous entries in their franchise, and all of them are franchise lows (again except for Echoes, but that is still a decade long low).

The numbers show that remakes on the 3DS post Switch are not selling well.  Metroid is falling completely in line with its peers. 

And yet, Nintendo keeps on making remakes for the 3D.  If sales for these remakes keeps falling around 500K and they keep announcing new ones (Mario and Luigi Bowser's Inside Story, Luigi's Mansion, and Kirby's Epicer Yarn) it seems that this is the level of sales they're expecting from these titles.  You can keep repeating your arguments if you like, but the numbers are not in your favor.

Not only that, but NPD has Samus Returns higher than Fire Emblem Echoes in NA.  VGChartz has it reverse.  Meaning it is likely even closer than you state here.