Nintendo Quarterly Sales Update to 31st Dec 2025: Switch 2 at 17.37m

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firebush03 said:

BraLoD said:

I've never seem a Switch game from Nintendo get discounted as fast as Metroid Prime 4 here is Brazil, I have seem it get to R$260 on big stores (before coupouns) already, meanwhile other Nintendo games took several years to get to that if they ever do. Just checked it and it's R$ 269 on Mercado Livre on a store I know.

They mostly go around from 350 to 330 or 300 in some promotions, and some older games go for 250 or 260 during Black Friday kind of promotions on Amazon.

Prime 4 is really new and is getting a discount like that already, in January/February no less, doesn't even look like it's much of a promotion but a soft price drop.

All of that is based on physical, btw.

So yeah, I think it's safe to assume it's not selling too well.

Metroid Prime 4 Beyond has just been a disaster. From the lastluster marketing campaign (likely a consequence of lack-of-faith in the game quality) to lukewarm reception among critics and consumers to a very troubled (and likely thereby expensive) development cycle, this is not the Metroid Prime experience I’m familiar with— surely sales have exceeded the Remaster/Remake from three years back, no? My only hope is that Nintendo doesn’t give up on 3D Metroid just yet… Metroid Prime might be in trouble, but I think 3D Metroid still has hope.

They shadow dropped Prime Metroid Remastered out of nowhere. This projection about Nintendo being worried about the games quality is unjustified, it got 3 trailers and a roll out similar to any previous metroid game. Whether people liked the trailers or thought there was hype is another topic altogether. If I'm not mistaken it was the very first treehouse they done for a Switch 2 game?