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Forums - Sales - Spain Sales: Week 49, 2025 (Dec 1 – Dec 7)

Zippy6 6 hours ago
eleazar0425 said:
IcaroRibeiro said:

Launch for Prime has been worse than for Dread, which is a bit strange since the common sense is 3D games have broader appeal compared to 2D game

My guess is people want to play it on Switch 2, and since there is a higher barrier entry (it's a brand new console), then many people will wait a few years/months until they can buy the console and play Metroid in the best possible hardware 

It will all comes down to WOM. If WOM is good, legs will be good and 5, 6 and even 7 million is possible 

If WOM is weak, it will sell less than Dread. Maybe 2 to 3 million 

Also I wouldn't be surprised if it actually sold considerably more than Dread on its first week considering the higher digital ratio we have nowadays

Nah, the math just doesn't work. It'd have to be a gigantic shift. If Dread had a 20% digital ratio for example then Prime 4 would have to have 50% digital ratio to just match it. That kind of change doesn't happen in just 4 years.

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Kyuu 5 hours ago

PS4 never dies. Metroid Prime 4 opening even more Switch 2 biased than I thought it would be (based on Spain and the UK charts). Switch dominating the retail top 10. PSVR2 ass whooping Xbox and PC handhelds is always funny.

A little strange that they don't track or share PS Portal numbers. It's arguably less of an accessory than PSVR2 (which is tracked). I guess it's viewed more like a controller due to low pricing.



Norion 3 hours ago

The opening for Prime 4 seems weak considering it's not that far above Prime Remastered though its opening was better in the UK probably basically matching Dread if including digital so its sales will largely come down to which of the two the US is closer to. Also it's nice to see the Spain charts getting posted again and actually getting a decent amount of replies. Seems giving them an occasional provocative title when sales are notably abnormal would be the right idea. Also there was someone who used to post these every week but stopped presumably cause the threads only got like three replies or so on average so hopefully activity for these settles at a better place than that.

IcaroRibeiro said:
Zippy6 said:

Hmmmm. Metroid Dread did 25k FW. So over 60% higher launch sales than Prime 4.

My expectation has been Prime 4 will sell more LT so hopefully it's done better in other regions or will have better legs.

Launch for Prime has been worse than for Dread, which is a bit strange since the common sense is 3D games have broader appeal compared to 2D game

My guess is people want to play it on Switch 2, and since there is a higher barrier entry (it's a brand new console), then many people will wait a few years/months until they can buy the console and play Metroid in the best possible hardware 

It will all comes down to WOM. If WOM is good, legs will be good and 5, 6 and even 7 million is possible 

If WOM is weak, it will sell less than Dread. Maybe 2 to 3 million 

Considering the mixed reception it's getting I think it's safe safe to say WOM won't help it much and if anything will probably hurt sales. It seems clear this won't be a breakout moment for the franchise if Dread barely outsold Prime 1 when it had more going for it than Prime 4.