How well do you think Metroid Dread will sell?

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Metallox said:

curl-6 said:

It's kind of hilarious and sad that some modern gamers will whine about $60 being too much for a 2D game, then spend $20 on a skin in some braindead looter shooter.

Which shooter sells a skin for 20 dollars? 

Fortnite for one, that's where I got the $20 figure from, and I'm sure there are others if one game has proven people will pay it.

Dulfite said:

curl-6 said:

This isn't some indie Metroidvania though, this is the grandfather of the genre, made by a studio of 160 people over 4 years with the backing and collaboration of Nintendo themselves, and an eagerly desired game people have been waiting 19 years for, finally come to fruition. I'd say $60 is well justified.

And most of those $15-25 games are either pixel art (cheap) or extremely short HD games. This is a fully funded game and we will feel that funding as we play it.

Plus, now that I think of it, we have to take into account they'll be wanting to recoup not only the costs of developing this version of Dread, but also the canceled versions over the last 15 years.

At the end of the day though it ultimately comes down to Nintendo not wanting to water down the value of their first party IPs, and since they depend on their first party properties their very survival I think that's fair enough. I for one am happy to pay $80 AUD for the quality Nintendo typically delivers.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 21 June 2021