The Road to 160m+ for Nintendo Switch

[Shtinamin_]

super_etecoon said:

Shtinamin_ said:

How much marketing was put into Super Mario Bros. Wonder?
How much went into Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom?
How much went into The Super Mario Bros. Movie?

Metroid Prime 4 will not be given that same amount of love as these titles did.
I make the assumption that Metroid Prime 4 will be given the same amount of love in Marketing as Pikmin 4, Fire Emblem, and Kirby and the Forgotten Land.
Nintendo has been pushing so hard to make Fire Emblem a well-known and well-received franchise, like Splatoon.

I agree that Metroid Prime 4 will make a great candidate for a more mature looking genre on the Switch, but Nintendo's audience isn't maturity, it is fun, innovation, and kids. It will have the same maturity as Metroid Dread, if not a bit more.

Woah, woah, woah.  I'm not talking about 20-30 million units, man.  I'm talking about 4 million...on a console with over 130 million users.  And using the Wii and MP3 as a comparison is a false analysis as the Wii audience and userbase is absolutely not the Switch audience and userbase.  

I'm not sure if this conversation is annoying anyone else as I know this topic is about the Switch hitting 160 million units, so if we leave it here or here abouts, I'm fine with that.  I know you like exact figures for your predictions, so what say you?  What will Metroid Prime 4's lifetime sales be on Switch 1 and/or Switch 2 if it appears on both?

Sorry for coming in hot like like, I thought you were thinking they would go to the level of Mario Wonder advertising.
I wouldn't mind them doing that.

I dont think its annoying, and I think that every game, no matter how big or small it is, there will could be the chance that it sells consoles and that is important in the Nintendo Switch's path to +160M. (Especially since US November 2023 was so low). So it is a relevant conversation for this forum. :)

If Nintendo is able to market Metroid Prime 4 (a wonderful, fun, mature-ish game) to a vast audience, then I have no qualms in saying Metroid Prime 4 will be selling 4.8M units (if on both then 8.6M).