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

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Snoorlax said:

curl-6 said:

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.

This applies to quite literally all past Nintendo games that were released on handheld systems along side their console counterpart. for every Gameboy there was a Nintendo Entertainment system which could have gotten all the handheld games Nintendo made for GB.

By your logic the 3DS games should have failed because there was the WiiU and now Switch yet most first party games sold better on 3DS than on console.

No, because in the past it was a choice between home console power and the ability to play outside the house. With the arrival of the Switch, there is no need to choose as we get both. Hence, in a world where the Switch is available, any game released on 3DS is gimped because it could've been far superior on Switch.

And first party software is selling better on Switch than on 3DS. 

Last edited by curl-6 - on 08 October 2018