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Biggerboat1 on 20 May 2023
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Slownenberg said:
Shaunodon said:

Metroid Prime Remastered struggling pass 1mil is a crime against gaming. It translated Metroidvania level/world design into 3D like no other game still ever has. I only hope Metroid Prime 4 being made specifically for Switch, is eye-catching enough to make people see what they're missing.

The fact people even complained about a near-remake of an all-time masterpiece, already being sold at reduced cost, just because it wasn't bundled as a trilogy...

Agreed on that. I can't believe it only hit 1 million. I thought that first quarter sales would be double that.

Especially considered the graphics were completely remade to look modern and it was only $40 when Nintendo would normally absolutely charge $60 for it. Like, it's totally a must buy for any bigtime Nintendo fan. But time and time again we see people just aren't interested in Metroid for whatever reason. Dread probably only did so well (still by did so well we are only talking 3+ million) because of how popular 2D Metroidvanias are these days.

Makes me worried about how Prime 4 will do. I mean of course there are gonna be plenty of people who didn't both getting Prime remaster because they played it back in the day, and maybe even still have their GC or Wii copies. Or just didn't bother cuz its an old game. But ya gotta figure a good amount of the people who would buy Prime 4 are the people who would buy Prime Remastered, and there were only a million of them in the first month and a half. And given that Metroid doesn't tend to have much in the way of legs, I doubt Prime Remastered will ever hit 2 million, especially since now THE game to get for the rest of the year is TotK. I was hoping Prime 4 would build on Dread's success and break 5 million, but now I wonder if it'll even sell as much as Dread.

And then of course there's always the worry that Prime 4 will get delayed to launch in the first few months of next gen rather than on Switch and launch on a system with <10m sales as opposed to like 135-140m sales. Being a launch title or nearly launch title might help it out some, but not likely compared to launching with the third largest user base ever, and especially if MK9 and 3D Mario are the other two AAA launch/near-launch titles next gen, as those are much more mainstream than Metroid and would take most of the hype for launch games.

I feel like the timing was all wrong for a remastered metroid prime. The switch's old mobile hardware is hardly the best place to get pulses pounding with a visual overhaul.

To me it'd have been much better served being launched early on in the system's life when there was some genuine excitement & curiosity about what the hardware could do, or hold out for switch 2, when again the system's capabilities will be most novel.