@Ninten78 I'd be shocked if they don't have their usual direct in September to give another push for their holiday titles and show off a bit of 2022 titles.

@curl-6 Exactly! Link's Awakening is on the cusp of being the best selling 2D Zelda. I'd be shocked if we don't see a similar phenomenon happen with Dread this holiday.

OK. So the TDLR version is you are just annoyed because people on internet don't think a 2D game is worth 60 bucks? I don't get the reason behind your annoyance, I mean if you want to say Avengers is worth only 5 USD be my guest, I wouldn't really care 

Back to thread main topic. Yes, in 2021 gamers don't see the same value for 2D games they see on 3D games, and this will halve sales potential for Dread. If the game can outsell Prime 1 and end close to 3 million regardless of the price and the fact it's a classic side scroller we shall see once Nintendo reveals numbers, but I disagree with the premise that prices won't affect sales for this game. It would absolutely sells better if it was 40 or 30 USD

We already had 2D Zeldas selling 5 million. LA sales are disappointing, it was the game released after BOTW by far the most popular Zelda of all time

Poor Metroid Dread will launch after almost a decade of a franchise collecting dust. People here are screaming Zelda when Metroid situation is much closer to Kirby lol 

LA was a Gameboy remake while Dread is a new game, and Zelda never had the pent up demand for a quality new game that Metroid has built up. Never said it will sell as much or more than LA, but price will most likely not stop it outselling all prior Metroid games.

I'm confused, you say budget and production value have no correlation, but then agree with me when I say budget is defined by potential revenue? 

Remember revenue is nothing more than units vs selling price. The market behave in a way such as when you lower the price, the sales increase. Of course, this is not a simple equation, but this a market rule unless we are talking about Veblen's Goodies like let's say very rare limited editions

If a company is willing to keep their prices high even if it will thrown away sales they are doing so for 2 reasons:

a) Lowering the price won't drive enough sales to increase the profit margins. This is the reason why 90% of games launch full price, even if they suffer mandatory price cuts only 2 months later 

b) The company wants to keep a luxury image as much as possible even if it leads to smaller profits. This is the reason why dead games (sales-wise) never suffer price cuts,  like Astral Chain  any reason to keep selling it for 60 USD after 2 years? 

If Dread launched at 60 USD and then started selling for 40 USD after 6 months I'm sure it would have much bigger legs, bigger sales and bigger revenue, but Nintendo don't want to damage their image. 

If anything this was one of its biggest selling points. One thing is a straight port of a Wii U game released only 5 years ago like Pikmin 

Another thing entirely is a remake of a 20 years old fan favorite 2D Zelda built from the ground in a new enginee

And do you think the demand for Zelda haven't hit an all time high after BOTW? Dude look at the number of views of BOTW 2 teaser, and it barely have any information other than the fact we can now explore skies

A Warrior-like kind of game based on Zelda sold 4 million units, almost 4 times the previous entry made, a popularity entirely borrowed from BOTW

LA had everything played perfectly to be a stellar seller, after making 3 million on first quarter this forum went wild and people were predicting almost 10 million. 2 years later still on the 5 million range, just because it exhausted the pool of people willing to pay 60 USD and will only get residual sales, mostly from quick discounts Nintendo give from time to time

I disagree, being an old been-there-done-that game as opposed to a fresh new one is a minus for sales potential, not a plus, especially when you're asking for $60 for a remake of a Gameboy game.

And none of that contradicts my point that Dread absolutely has the potential to be the highest selling Metroid. I see absolutely no reason why it can't outsell Prime at 2.8 million.

I think you’re the ONLY person here who thinks LA sales are disappointing.

For a $60 remake of a Game Boy game, it has already outsold the original version and if it sells another 1.03 million it’ll pass the original Legend of Zelda for the best selling 2D game in the franchise. How is that possibly disappointing?

Maybe for you, I assure it's not true for the market. The best selling Zelda on 3DS was Ocarina of Time remastered, more than A Link Between Worlds a "fresh new game" 

Wind Waker HD on the Wii U (biggest flop) sold 2.3 million copies, Majora's Mask sold over 3 million copies. Overall Zelda franchise has a history of selling very well their remasters

LA being built from the ground as a new game was definitely a plus. It didn't sell accordingly just because it's a 2D game, and the demand for 2D Zelda is just not as big as 3D Zelda as Ocarina of time and A Link Between Worlds example showed us 

I said sales potential, not real-world performance in 100% of cases. But this is frankly all beside my point.

Again, my point is this; Metroid Dread has both immense pent up demand, strong reception so far, and the Switch Effect on its side, whereas I see no reason why it's price or the fact it's 2D will prevent it selling more than prior Metroids where so many other franchises have exceeded their previous records on Switch. If Pikmin and Xenoblade can do it, so can Metroid.