About what? This thread only made because I'm mad by the Zelda delay?

No. I'm mad because they choose to develop a cheap Metroid spin-off (as a metroid fan) because we zelda fans keep buying everything. Just like amiibo fans keeps buying dlc even when they claim they only buy for collecting purposes.

Am I mad? Yes. Mad with Nintendo as whole.

Oh yeah, lets blame the consumer instead of the company making money of it.

Then why does Hyrule Warriors have nowhere near the sales of a console Zelda game? Or Four Swords Adventures? Or the Tingle games?

The Zelda remakes sold less than a remaster of a one year old game (TLOU).

It's always great knowing new things I didn't know about myself.

The better question would be why Hyrule Warriors is the best selling Warriors game in the west in years and that is including other Warriors titles on Wii U, try explaning that one without Zelda fans that just bought that one because of Link. Not every single Zelda fan is that extreme but there is a subset in that fanbase that does exactly what I said.

And cool that you mention TLOU, now we know that that game is more popular than Zelda nowadays, cool beans.

I bought exactly one of those games (Link Between Worlds). That apparently makes me a better Zelda fan than you. ^_^

OK, fellas, let's leave TLOU out of this conversation, please.

And to everyone else: please be careful with the generalizations and stereotypes.

A Japanese niche franchise that sells better because it uses an iconic franchise that is popular in the West? You don't say. Dragon Quest Heroes is selling better than HW and it only released in Japan so far. What point are you trying to make here exactly?

You're trying to spin the Zelda fanbase into mindless sheep that buy anything with a Zelda paintcoat, as if they're different from fanbases of other big franchises.

And your last sentence explains the posts I've read from you recently, thank you, I know not to bother with you anymore now.

I don't post here much, but I had to post just to say this. OP is one of the most annoying posters on this board. Why is everything about Zelda with you? You're still being a fanboy even in your blaming of the series/fans. Whether you're being negative or positive, your target is always "Zelda". The world does not revolve around Zelda, and while the series has its problems, this is completely irrelevant to the problem with Metroid right now. Please take a freaking break from the series, because even in your pessimism about the series, it still seems to be the only thing ever on your mind. You're the only one who would make a thread like this. 

Zelda remakes and spin offs haven't even been selling more than fair at best save OoT3D. But because of your massive Zelda obsession, apparently these "highly successful remakes", which are mostly average at best in terms of sales, are the cause of the Metroid problem? What are you smoking, and can I get any of that? 

The biggest problem is Nintendo dishing out remake after remake after spinoff in a short time span, but the sales of these titles have been far below mainline entries for the most part. This problem has nothing to do with federation force. 

The truth of it is that a sidescrolling Metroid would have been met with a loving embrace.

Nintendo eventually gives us the IP we want, but usually first on the handheld (Many Zelda 3DS games, Metroid Prime: FF) which we don't want and usually a little after another console spinoff we never asked for (Hyrule Warriors, Metroid: Other M)