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bigjon on 21 March 2008

Retro is it is 3d
Intelligent Systems if it is 2D or on the DS.



End of 2009 Predictions (Set, January 1st 2009)

Wii- 72 million   3rd Year Peak, better slate of releases

360- 37 million   Should trend down slightly after 3rd year peak

PS3- 29 million  Sales should pick up next year, 3rd year peak and price cut

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O-D-C on 21 March 2008

I suspect the next Metroid game will be a simple easy to play Wii Ware game. It's gonna let alot of the hardcore Metroid fan (IE me) down but the next big title will be (again guessing) Metroid: Dread for the DS kinda of a New Super Mario Bros. 2.5D sorta thing. 3D sprites in a 2D world.



sc94597 on 21 March 2008
O-D-C said:
I suspect the next Metroid game will be a simple easy to play Wii Ware game. It's gonna let alot of the hardcore Metroid fan (IE me) down but the next big title will be (again guessing) Metroid: Dread for the DS kinda of a New Super Mario Bros. 2.5D sorta thing. 3D sprites in a 2D world.

 I would be let down if it was easy. As you could tell I love metroid so much.



Onyxmeth on 21 March 2008
sc94597 said:
Slash said:
I think Metroid is taking alittle break for now.

Go look at superchunks sig.

That's speculation what's in his sig. Confirmation is Nintendo announcing a new Metroid. To be honest, I'd like a small hiatus to give other franchises and new IPs a chance at some development time. We've had 4 Metroid Prime games in five years. It's almost in yearly additions territory like Madden and Call of Duty. In comparison we get usually one or at most two Zelda games in the same time frame. Genius takes time and reinvention of a series takes time also. Let's all hope other IPs get some star time this gen and not the same couple of franchises receiving all the attention.

 



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Words Of Wisdom on 21 March 2008
Onyxmeth said:
sc94597 said:
Slash said:
I think Metroid is taking alittle break for now.

Go look at superchunks sig.

That's speculation what's in his sig. Confirmation is Nintendo announcing a new Metroid. To be honest, I'd like a small hiatus to give other franchises and new IPs a chance at some development time. We've had 4 Metroid Prime games in five years. It's almost in yearly additions territory like Madden and Call of Duty. In comparison we get usually one or at most two Zelda games in the same time frame. Genius takes time and reinvention of a series takes time also. Let's all hope other IPs get some star time this gen and not the same couple of franchises receiving all the attention.

 


I agree.  Nintendo has a slew of great IPs that many fans would love to see get a chance to strut their stuff.  Samus and Metroid are great, but give her a break... she just saved the galaxy again.  She could use a mini-vacation.

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dsoverpsp on 21 March 2008
Onyxmeth said:
sc94597 said:
Slash said:
I think Metroid is taking alittle break for now.

Go look at superchunks sig.

That's speculation what's in his sig. Confirmation is Nintendo announcing a new Metroid. To be honest, I'd like a small hiatus to give other franchises and new IPs a chance at some development time. We've had 4 Metroid Prime games in five years. It's almost in yearly additions territory like Madden and Call of Duty. In comparison we get usually one or at most two Zelda games in the same time frame. Genius takes time and reinvention of a series takes time also. Let's all hope other IPs get some star time this gen and not the same couple of franchises receiving all the attention.

 


 and a mario game comes out like once every 5 years :(



sc94597 on 21 March 2008
Onyxmeth said:
sc94597 said:
Slash said:
I think Metroid is taking alittle break for now.

Go look at superchunks sig.

That's speculation what's in his sig. Confirmation is Nintendo announcing a new Metroid. To be honest, I'd like a small hiatus to give other franchises and new IPs a chance at some development time. We've had 4 Metroid Prime games in five years. It's almost in yearly additions territory like Madden and Call of Duty. In comparison we get usually one or at most two Zelda games in the same time frame. Genius takes time and reinvention of a series takes time also. Let's all hope other IPs get some star time this gen and not the same couple of franchises receiving all the attention.

 


 We actually had 3 zelda's in the last 5 years. We had 5 metroid game Fusion,Hunters,Metroid Prime 1,2,3. 2 of these games were made by a different developers. All of these games were of high quality. The difference between CoD and metroid is that some of the games in CoD sucked such as 3 and 5 is planned to suck. Now The worse metroid game is hunters imo and that was a very good game still.  Hunters also got a rating of 84% on game rankings. http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/920760.asp 



sc94597 on 21 March 2008
dsoverpsp said:
Onyxmeth said:
sc94597 said:
Slash said:
I think Metroid is taking alittle break for now.

Go look at superchunks sig.

That's speculation what's in his sig. Confirmation is Nintendo announcing a new Metroid. To be honest, I'd like a small hiatus to give other franchises and new IPs a chance at some development time. We've had 4 Metroid Prime games in five years. It's almost in yearly additions territory like Madden and Call of Duty. In comparison we get usually one or at most two Zelda games in the same time frame. Genius takes time and reinvention of a series takes time also. Let's all hope other IPs get some star time this gen and not the same couple of franchises receiving all the attention.

 


and a  main series  mario game comes out like once every 5 years :(


 Fixed.



Onyxmeth on 21 March 2008
sc94597 said:
Onyxmeth said:
sc94597 said:
Slash said:
I think Metroid is taking alittle break for now.

Go look at superchunks sig.

That's speculation what's in his sig. Confirmation is Nintendo announcing a new Metroid. To be honest, I'd like a small hiatus to give other franchises and new IPs a chance at some development time. We've had 4 Metroid Prime games in five years. It's almost in yearly additions territory like Madden and Call of Duty. In comparison we get usually one or at most two Zelda games in the same time frame. Genius takes time and reinvention of a series takes time also. Let's all hope other IPs get some star time this gen and not the same couple of franchises receiving all the attention.

 


We actually had 3 zelda's in the last 5 years. We had 5 metroid game Fusion,Hunters,Metroid Prime 1,2,3. 2 of these games were made by a different developers. All of these games were of high quality. The difference between CoD and metroid is that some of the games in CoD sucked such as 3 and 5 is planned to suck. Now The worse metroid game is hunters imo and that was a very good game still. Hunters also got a rating of 84% on game rankings. http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/920760.asp

I purposely said Metroid Prime because I wasn't including Fusion since it's radically different as I also didn't include Metroid Prime Pinball for the same reason. If you look at the Metroid Prime games critically, they get increasingly lower scores as time passes. You can chalk that up to reviewer bias or understand that maybe Metroid isn't feeling so fresh anymore. If you look at reviews for Metroid Prime 3, you'll actually notice a trend of reviewers attitudes being "been there done that". Metroid needs a break and others need to shine. That will make Metroid feel fresh again 3-5 years from now in a grand return. If you can't understand why Prime felt so fresh it was because it was a great game to a series we hadn't seen in almost 10 years. Metroid is oversaturated right now and Nintendo only has so many developers to work on projects. I would enjoy new IPs or a fresh perspective of overlooked franchises, and leave characters like Samus to rest a bit for now and come back stronger than ever. Give me a killer Kirby console title for gods sake! It's been FOREVER!

 



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Words Of Wisdom on 21 March 2008
Onyxmeth said:
I purposely said Metroid Prime because I wasn't including Fusion since it's radically different as I also didn't include Metroid Prime Pinball for the same reason. If you look at the Metroid Prime games critically, they get increasingly lower scores as time passes. You can chalk that up to reviewer bias or understand that maybe Metroid isn't feeling so fresh anymore. If you look at reviews for Metroid Prime 3, you'll actually notice a trend of reviewers attitudes being "been there done that". Metroid needs a break and others need to shine. That will make Metroid feel fresh again 3-5 years from now in a grand return. If you can't understand why Prime felt so fresh it was because it was a great game to a series we hadn't seen in almost 10 years. Metroid is oversaturated right now and Nintendo only has so many developers to work on projects. I would enjoy new IPs or a fresh perspective of overlooked franchises, and leave characters like Samus to rest a bit for now and come back stronger than ever. Give me a killer Kirby console title for gods sake! It's been FOREVER!

When was the last great Kirby console game?  Kirby Superstar for the SNES?  Kirby 64 took all the great parts of Superstar, flushed them down the toilet, and gave Kirby a double-lightsaber.