Still gonna put the bold prediction out there that a Prime 4 that does for Metroid what BotW did for Zelda will hit 20m+. The game will have reached almost mythical levels of hype among gamers when it finally comes out (not before 2023 at the earliest) because of the near decade span between announcement and release, and by that point Switch will surely have one of the largest install bases of any console ever. Who knows, maybe even the largest ever. All it will take is a home run in terms of quality and MP4 is gonna explode. Exception being if it ends up getting BotW’d and being a launch title for the successor as well, which is also very possible at this point too, since I won’t rule out as late as a 2025 release.
20m+ club is surely only half way there, if even, if the successor isn’t around till 2025 or so. Would be hard pressed to imagine we’ll ever see anything like Switch again in terms of software juggernauts and the quantity of them. It also sets Nintendo up as being fairly indestructible for quite some time to come in the industry, as they will have a crapload of exclusive IPs that have reached a massive audience and age range. The level of Nintendo brand loyalty the Switch will create for the future could be the biggest achievement.
Last edited by HyrulianScrolls - on 04 February 2021
