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

[firebush03]

Otter said:

firebush03 said:

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?

Nintendo was dead silent on this game up until the last two weeks prior to launch, they hid virtually every aspect that people would end up wary on (e.g. we knew nothing about the Federation Force until previews released a week prior to launch, we had no idea what was going on with Sol Valley and this bike until launch, etc.), the release was slotted a week or two after the hottest week for sales, completely buried by three games (Pokémon, Air Riders, AoI), and — to top things off — the leader producer announces his retirement with a tremendous thud in an interview directly after the game’s launch.

Nintendo was not happy with this game and they were intentionally silent on it. They knew what they had and wanted to bury it.