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Zippy6 2 days ago
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Norion said:
Otter said:

I don't think this is any cause for concern. This is essentially 3 weeks of sales and on an early yet quickly growing userbase. I wouldn't of expected it to be past 1.5m at the moment across both SKUs.

Considering Switch 2 is the more popular version (75-80% based on UK/Japan) and all of those digital sales are being attributed to S1, it may actually be passed 1m on the platform (S2) or at least very close to. 

The concern is that Metroid games have poor legs and with how reception and word of mouth of this one has gone I really doubt that'll be much different here. The early userbase part doesn't help that much when there's a Switch 1 version unless there's a lot of people holding out till they get a Switch 2 but the Metroid fanbase being relatively hardcore for a Nintendo one means they've probably already largely gotten Switch 2's for it. Some of the ones that haven't will not bother buying it now due to the reception and word of mouth so the final total could be only around 2m in the end which is not ideal for such a long and troubled development cycle.

According to a journalist who has interviewed retro studios in the past, MP4 had a budget of around $100 million.

It looks like it will be difficult for the game to break even.

Considering it was in development for over 8 years and restarted from scratch, not surprising a lot of money was spent getting to the finish line. Unfortunately Metroid hasn't had that big moment a lot of other Nintendo IPs did on Switch where sales exploded.