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Poll: How much will Metroid: Other M sell?

500,000 16 7.55%
 
1,000,000 29 13.68%
 
1,500,000 63 29.72%
 
2,000,000 62 29.25%
 
2,500,000 42 19.81%
 
Total:212
Smashchu2 on 09 February 2010
jarrod said:
Somtheing else people don't seem to be factoring is generational franchise growth on Wii. I'm not sure exactly why people think Other M will automatically undersell Prime 1 when in about every other case, we've seen Nintendo's premier franchises perform better on Wii (Mario Galaxy vs Sunshine, Smash Brawl vs Melee, Twilight Princess vs The Wind Waker, Mario Kart Wii vs Double Dash, etc). I guess you could try to point out Prime 3, but it was basically entirely unpromoted and it still outsold Prime 2...

Those games are very compariable. They are sequal to each other. Other M is it's own game, so compairing it to Metroid Prime doesn't matter as consumers will see this differently. It won't break higher then Metroid Prime becuase it's a game about Samus's character, and people don't buy games about characters and stories.



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ZaP~ on 09 February 2010

Hope it does more than 1.5M



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jarrod on 09 February 2010
Smashchu2 said:
jarrod said:
Somtheing else people don't seem to be factoring is generational franchise growth on Wii. I'm not sure exactly why people think Other M will automatically undersell Prime 1 when in about every other case, we've seen Nintendo's premier franchises perform better on Wii (Mario Galaxy vs Sunshine, Smash Brawl vs Melee, Twilight Princess vs The Wind Waker, Mario Kart Wii vs Double Dash, etc). I guess you could try to point out Prime 3, but it was basically entirely unpromoted and it still outsold Prime 2...

Those games are very compariable. They are sequal to each other. Other M is it's own game, so compairing it to Metroid Prime doesn't matter as consumers will see this differently. It won't break higher then Metroid Prime becuase it's a game about Samus's character, and people don't buy games about characters and stories.

I'd agree, Other M's only really comparable in that it's a bit of a series reset.  But again, we've seen franchise growth for almost every series on Wii, that's just want happens when you quadruple your potential audience.  Nintendo's also positioning this as a big game, up there with Mario and Zelda, and that hasn't really happened for Metroid since the original Prime either.

You're getting too hung up on Sakamoto's character emphasis comments though, this is still going to be a fully fledged Metroid game and I'd argue will likely have wider appeal than the Primes did (which were fairly divisive, even among Metroid fans). 



KeptoKnight on 09 February 2010

Previous Metroid Game has sold 1.5-2.0 million. With Team Ninja and awesome advertisements, this will stretch to 2.5-3 million units for sure. And at the end i can see between ~3.0 - 3.5 million.