| AngryLittleAlchemist said: The one I want most is a Metroid Prime Trilogy port. Well, I would want Zelda just as much, but I think with a Zelda collection they'd end up only packing in two games. If it was something like Wind Waker HD, Twillight Princess HD, and a Skyward Sword HD that would be super cool, but it won't be. At best it will be a Wind Waker HD and Twilight Princess HD double pack (and I say best because whilst OoT and MM are arguably more beloved, I personally already have them immediately accessible on the 3DS). You just know Skyward Sword would be "too generous", which sucks because given how divisive it is I *really* don't want to have to pay $60 just to try it when or if it eventually gets a Switch port.
That's just factually inaccurate compared to other games you listed like Metroid Prime or Pikmin. Donkey Kong is less popular now, in large part, because Nintendo made it less popular now. The SNES games sold 9m, 5m, and 3.5m respectively, making every entry part of the top 10 best selling SNES games. Donkey Kong 64 sold 5m. Returns on the Wii alone sold a gigantic 6.5m with the 3DS port selling 1.5m as of 2014, almost as much as Tropical Freeze. Yea, the decline in popularity that Donkey Kong had on the Wii U was pretty big, arguably bigger than other franchises (it's a little hard to gauge when a lot of Wii to Wii U titles either didn't get a Wii U sequel, or had abnormalities affecting comparisons like Galaxy getting two entries or BOTW not launching until the Wii U was already dead), but that's not really a testament to the series popularity. It is one of their biggest franchises and would probably sell as well as Luigi's Mansion 3 if it had an ambitious new entry, the series even has potential to be bigger than LM I'd say given it started at much healthier sales. |
Donkey Kong just isn't a major franchise for game sales. Sure it is important in video game history. But the franchise peaked on the SNES, that was over 25 years ago! Even the Wii game, on a system of 100m units, only hit 6.5 million, and the fact that you call that gigantic makes my point for me. It just is not a major sales franchise. Maybe Nintendo just needs to change up the formula and stop doing DKC games that try to bring back the glory of the SNES days, but the one time so far they tried to do something different (DK64) it came off as a miserable game and only sold as well as it did because it was a hugely hyped game, but just ended up being a huge disappointment. And we aren't talking about taking a new Donkey Kong game to the next level to reinvigorate the series, we're talking about a collection of old games. If you said what franchise could desperately use an overhaul to reinvigorate it, then yeah, Donkey Kong would be a very appropriate answer.
After the critical failure of DK64 the franchise just hasn't been as popular. Donkey Kong is a little like Sonic, very well regarded 16 bit games, failed badly in 3D, had to go back to just trying to recreate the nostalgia of the 16 bit games, luckily Nintendo figured this out quickly and didn't try to put out a bunch of bad 3D DK games after the first bad one like Sega did was Sonic. Given that the most popular time for the franchise by far was the SNES and those games will be available on Switch Online, there just isn't much reason for a DK Collection. I'm not saying DK isn't popular, but its not a hugely popular franchise when you take out the DKC games which will eventually all be free with Switch Online. That doesn't leave much left to make a Collection out of. Sure it would be cool if they literally included like every DK game as like the ultimate Donkey Kong collection, but we just saw how Nintendo didn't even include both Galaxy's on the same Collection, so there isn't much point in have like a 4 game DK Collection when three of those are free on Switch Online. If Nintendo makes some sort of DK collection then alright cool, but its certainly not the obvious answer as at the very least Zelda and Metroid Prime collections would be much more desired and unique.
Last edited by Slownenberg - on 11 September 2020
