KLXVER said:
We are really due for another one then. I mean Kirby doesnt reach those numbers and that franchise seems like its getting a game every 6 months... |
A little correction. There have been three Kirby games, two original and one port and they do sell as well. The port, Return to Dreamland has sold over 1.5 million, but because it was released at the end of fiscal year, we only have a few weeks of sales tracked so far. Star Allies and Tropical Freeze both released about 5 years ago on Switch, and have sold 4.4 and 4.6 million respectively, only about 4-5% difference. But last year’s Kirby and the Forgotten Land has sold about 6.5 million as of last December and will probably exceed 10 million by the end of the year.
I think the only team that could do Donkey Kong Country justice at this point is the Super Mario Odyssey team. The next game should be cutting edge, it should be prettier than Mario Odyssey, faster than Mario Odyssey, and do something groundbreaking in platforming. The series hasn’t had anything resembling cutting edge since Donkey Kong Country 64, and it’s been since the SNES that it was considered a top tier franchise. I think Donkey Kong Country 64 might have a had its shine partially eclipsed by Rare’s own Banjo Kazooie.
I know it’s not a popular thing to say, but I think Retro is a struggling studio, and I think Metroid Prime 4 was sent to their studio to die. Ex-employees over the past few years have not painted a positive picture. Plus fans of the Metroid Prime series have this cult-like devotion to Retro as though it’s not the staff and their experience, but the very label itself that can make Metroid Prime great again—not contemplating that the team that built Metroid Prime 1 and 2 largely disbanded two decades ago, and conveniently forget the third game was mediocre. It’s almost like they sent it to that studio to die, because that’s the one place Metroid Prime could die without sending the (relatively) small but fanatically devoted and loud fanbase into an uproar—but that’s a bit too pessimistic of a thought, I think :D
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