The Road to 160m+ for Nintendo Switch

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bowserthedog said:

Its not a huge mistake to go cross gen with this title. Its not going to matter that much

I fully agree, it won't be a huge mistake. Nintendo will be smart about their game releases. And they know their timetable for the next 4 years most likely. If it is a cross-gen then it will release with other 1st party Nintendo published/developed games, but it won't be seen as the dedicated launch title.


And I hate to be the bearer of bad news but Metroid does ok. It's not a system seller genre.
These are the 9 Metroid games that I can find with their respective units sold.

Metroid	2.73M
Metroid II: Return of Samus	1.72M
Super Metroid	1.42M
Metroid Fusion	1.39M
Metroid Prime	2.84M
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes	1.1M
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption	1.31M
Metroid Dread	3.07M
Metroid Prime Remastered	1.09M

In total of these 9 games, the Metroid series has sold 16.67M. The equivalence of 1.85M units sold per game. Which is on par with the Xenoblade Chronicles franchise. I expect Metroid Prime 4 to be selling around a maximum of 4M units. But I dont think it will be a console seller, not like the Zelda franchise, or the Mario franchise.