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Have you heard of Metroid before?

Never heard of it. 26 6.21%
 
Heard of it, don't know what it is. 6 1.43%
 
Heard of it, never played. 45 10.74%
 
Played one of the games. 55 13.13%
 
Played multiple Metroid games. 117 27.92%
 
Played multiple, includin... 170 40.57%
 
Total:419
KLXVER on 15 May 2015
Jumpin said:
KLXVER said:


You might be unfamiliar with how low the sales numbers of Metroid games are compared to Nintendo's other franchises. Only two Metroid games have ever sold above 2 million, and none have sold above 3 million.Nintendo has had 36 games that have sold above 10 million, 80 games that have sold above 5 million, and 143 games that have sold above the highest selling Metroid game.

http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=&publisher=1167&platform=&genre=&minSales=0&results=200


Its still not a small franchise. It has sold over 17 million...



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kupomogli on 15 May 2015

Metroid is the one you play as a guy with an orange suit that has a gun arm, right? I played the N64 one. Game was too easy.



Proxy-Pie on 15 May 2015
kupomogli said:
Metroid is the one you play as a guy with an orange suit that has a gun arm, right? I played the N64 one. Game was too easy.

I know that's a joke, but I'm getting an urge to smack a bish



JRPGfan on 15 May 2015
KLXVER said:
Jumpin said:


You might be unfamiliar with how low the sales numbers of Metroid games are compared to Nintendo's other franchises. Only two Metroid games have ever sold above 2 million, and none have sold above 3 million.Nintendo has had 36 games that have sold above 10 million, 80 games that have sold above 5 million, and 143 games that have sold above the highest selling Metroid game.

http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=&publisher=1167&platform=&genre=&minSales=0&results=200


Its still not a small franchise. It has sold over 17 million...


Still look how many of those 17 million where in the US.

Metroid and Kirby are basically dead outsides the USA.



Proxy-Pie on 15 May 2015
Hynad said:
Cloudman said:


Says the biggest Metroid fan on the site... ; )


That would be Dahuman.

*readies Power Suit*
Bring it!!!



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Jumpin on 15 May 2015
KLXVER said:
Jumpin said:


You might be unfamiliar with how low the sales numbers of Metroid games are compared to Nintendo's other franchises. Only two Metroid games have ever sold above 2 million, and none have sold above 3 million.Nintendo has had 36 games that have sold above 10 million, 80 games that have sold above 5 million, and 143 games that have sold above the highest selling Metroid game.

http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=&publisher=1167&platform=&genre=&minSales=0&results=200


Its still not a small franchise. It has sold over 17 million...

It is still one of Nintendo's smaller franchises. Nintendo has 20 individual games that have sold more than the entire Metroid franchise.



I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.

KLXVER on 15 May 2015
JRPGfan said:
KLXVER said:


Its still not a small franchise. It has sold over 17 million...


Still look how many of those 17 million where in the US.

Metroid and Kirby are basically dead outsides the USA.

They are still in every Smash game. They are both well known most places.



KLXVER on 15 May 2015
Jumpin said:
KLXVER said:


Its still not a small franchise. It has sold over 17 million...

It is still one of Nintendo's smaller franchises. Nintendo has 20 individual games that have sold more than the entire Metroid franchise.


and how many of those have the word Mario or Pokemon in it?



SuaveSocialist on 15 May 2015

I haven't heard of it. But I'm pretty isolated, so there's probably plenty of games/franchises I haven't heard of.



Jumpin on 15 May 2015
SpokenTruth said:
And out of that 17 million (as of 2012), it has 2 of the best rated games of all time.

Pretty sure you can't have 2 of the highest rated games of all time and remain unknown to gamers.

You're not just making the assumption that all gamers  pay attention to reviews, but you're making the assumption that all gamers are well studied in the review scores of all games throughout history.

There is a video series called teenagers react. On the NES episode, several of the teenagers had never heard of Metroid before. It should also be noted they all had American accents, so I assume they were American, and they were all gamers as each of them compared the NES controller to gaming systems they played.



I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.