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

[TheRealSamusAran]

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?

Anyone who says Nintendo didn't have faith in the game's quality just haven't been paying attention to the series until now, any long time fan knows Nintendo never did a whole lot to market the series, specially the Prime series. Even the excellent Dread had little fanfare from Nintendo.