Erik Aston on 09 March 2007
vanguardian1 said:
Metroid Prime 3, will indeed, be a system seller, but probably not on the larger scale like Mario Galaxy, SSBB, or perhaps even MySims would be.
See, I don't know what kind of sales that MySims can do. But the franchise has obviously shown a lot more sales potential in the past then Metroid has.
I think best case scenario for Metroid, is that even if it gets a boost from being a marquee title for the existing gamer audience on a system much more popular than Gamecube, that it still does well under 4 million.
MySims... If it completely went off without a hitch, I think could be bigger. That relies on it nailing its goal of infiltrating Japan, and still doing great in the West too. Then again, it could do "only" 1 million WW too... Hard to tell if the Sims is declining, or if it even has 5 million+ sales potential on a home console... I guess maybe it belongs in the "wild card" column.
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