For the record, I said 86, I like to eat crow. 

Really great to see it's reviewing so well, hopefully this highly positive reception helps sales a lot.

I do believe these reviews are the final piece of the puzzle for this game to be successful. We’ve had a great reveal, great release timing, pretty over the top marketing, excellent synergy with the simultaneous launch of the Switch OLED, the always amazing Switch effect, and now at least an 85 on the review aggregate websites.

All that is left now is for the gamers to reward the developer and publisher for their hard work and commitment to putting Metroid in the tier it belongs.

5 million or bust!

I buy all my games digitally these days, but I've always bought Metroid games physically.  If the game is amazing to me, I'll be picking up a physical copy for display.  It's just a matter of finding the special edition.

Lookin like almost everyone in the league is gonna be within 2 or 3 points of this one which is kinda wild. Rly glad they seemed to pump out some quality for this one

This comment just seems like a lazy attempt at trolling

Sir the amount of playstation website allowed on Metacritic, you can sit this one out. Metroid franchise isn't big and the last entries (except the remake) got pretty bad reviews. 

Anyway, to me this is clear now the game will sell over 5 millions now. It is heavily marketed, different and critically received. It has everything going for it. If it gets close to 10 millions that would be AMAZING. But unfortunately i feel like the lack of interest in Japan is going to lower the chance of that happening. 7-8 millions would be great. Feel like with the amount of promo it is getting, 2-3 millions would be disappointing. Anything higher than 5 millions Nintendo should be happy about.

10 million units for a 2021 $60 non-Mario side-scroller. Sounds surreal.

You're overestimating it a bit. Unless it explodes in popularity like BotW did.

As it stands now I think 5mil is the ceiling and 3mil the floor.

Not surprised, if im not mistaken other M was the only poorly received main line game. as a fan I even liked that game. Aside from the character assassination they did to samus the gameplay was very good. Im exited for this game. Most quality games on switch are selling like crazzy i would not doubt this selling past 5m on the score alone.