A good game and a disappointing game are not mutually exclusive.

And no, we don't know that it made a profit.

I know, but its still funny annoying you about it!

And Wii games need 250K to break a profit, it sold over 250K

Darth how much do you know about the development of this game? Like the guys they got to make the (lengthy and gorgeous) FMVs?

Ok FMV's will add in a few hundred thousand.

But it will have made a profit eventually.....I can't see it needing more than 600K for a profit.

Its not done well by profit wise but I don't think it'll be a loss maker, I am too stubborn to accept that.

I don't know if it will make a profit either, but success or failure is not measured by profit alone Darth. ROI, opportunity costs and depreciation of assets (like an IP) have to be taken into account too. And for a platform holder, console momentum does too. It's not as simple as profit = success, loss = failure.

The point I'm getting at is this:

The investment here was enormous for a Metroid game.

It looks like it's going to be the lowest-selling mainline Metroid ever released, including Echoes on the Gamecube.

This don't look good.

Ok it does look bad.

But I don't understand why this happened, how did we get to the stage that Nintendo's most successful console in years is seeing the lowest selling Metroid game I do not know.

The easiest explanation is that you're in the minority in terms of Other M appreciation. More players seem to be disappointed, and bad word of mouth seems to have cut its legs out from under it.

Userbase doesn't help bad games to sell.

well I think it will have no problem making a profit, however the 250k number darth stated earlier is probably not even enough to make a profit for a medium sized Wii project.

Metroid Other M obvioulsy is one of the bigger ones, though not among the biggest on the Wii.
500k at full price should do it, so as of now it probably hasn't made a profit yet.