http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroid:_Other_M
Take a look at this link , in the topic "DEVELOPMENT" ...i guess i made my point showing you that the other M has a totally different development format than assault ...
About the sales we must consider the time here , see back in 90' Star Fox was a first line Nintendo game myself all ready sad that , now lets take a look at the sales for the series in the last decade , in the same way that Metroid was not in the first line during the '90
Star Fox: Assault
Nintendo N/A 6.8 8.5 0.82m 14th Feb 05 17th Oct 0
Read the review
Nintendo 9.3 9.6 9.5 2.83m 17th Nov 02 27th Aug 09
but i will say we may never EVER get to a conclusion on this topic , cuz what its main and what is second line for Nintendo (we will never know) and this kind of stuff changes all the time , but the main point for all of this talk is OTHER M is not developed by a third-party in the same way that Star fox assult was ... and the main main question of all of this is OTHER M will sucks or not , and i bet with you that it wont having a score under 90% on metacritics if you want ...
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