I'm not too worried about the game's sales for several reasons. One is I fully expect there to be a 'Switch boost' like other franchises have got. So even if it doesn't match Prime 1, it should easily surpass any other game in the franchise, and Prime 1 isn't even that high of a bar to clear.

The other reason is that Nintendo's thinking on software has changed largely thanks to the troubles of the Wii U era. Part of the reason games like Bayonetta 2, Captain Toad, Hyrule Warriors, and Devils Third got made is because Nintendo learned the value of building up their library of games to make the system more appealing overall even if the games themselves were not expected to sell well. I don't think the Switch's success means they've forgotten the value these sorts of games give their systems over the long run.

This definitely looks like it has the potential to become the best non-Prime Metroid in my book, provided the difficulty never gets frustrating. Can't see anything about it so far that I dislike or find worrying. 

For those concerned about the pricing (French people). It's available in some stores in France for 45€ (Which is not far from the 40€ that everybody are claiming).
Link: https://www.auchan.fr/metroid-dread-nintendo-switch/p-c1434937

Hey guys, I found an interesting video about Other M's localisation and how it deviates from the japanese script.

Be warned, though. It is quite long and you may be required to stop every now and then to read the displayed text while following the narrator's voice, so it is a little difficult to sit through. But it is very insightful, however! As it turns out, it appears that the english translation downgraded the game by quite some margin.

Did you know that there were hints about a military coup within the Galactic Federation and that this coup had an impact on the events in Other M? Right, me neither, because this was cut in the translation. Also, it appears that in the japanese script Samus isn't Adam's loyal pet like she is in the english translation. There is one infamous event in Other M when Samus doesn't equip her Varia Suit in the lava district until Adam said so, while the heat threatens to kill her. Critics hated this because it showed how Samus blindly follows Adams orders even when she might die. Turns out that she didn't do it to make him happy, but instead out of spite because she had enough of his shit and wanted to show him how she can handle it on her own. At least that's how I understood it from that video. Also, it covers mistranslations in other games as well and so explains how Phantoon and Mother Brain are connected and why Phantoon is the final boss in the game. There are so many more things that got watered down which, in total, could have made Other M a better game to experience.

Why post this video here, you ask? Because it might explain some connections between the games that were lost in translation but could potentially lead to the events in Metroid Dread. Or at least have some kind of influence. My body is ready now.

Honestly, even if it weren't for the abysmal story and characterization of Samus (at least in English, can't speak for any supposed regional differences) I'd still consider Other M a bad game for its many gameplay deficiencies, from poorly conceived controls to dull level design to uneven pacing to terrible design decisions like the spot the pixel segments.
Thankfully, it looks like Dread has purged just about all these shortcomings, at least from what they've shown thus far.

Have these Metroid puns been posted in this thread yet?
https://twitter.com/Fighter_Builder/status/1405951748376834053?s=20