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Millennium on 14 July 2008

Metroid has never been as popular in Japan as elsewhere, because it was released for the FDS and never got a Famicom port. This is why ever since Metroid 2 on the Game Boy, Metroid games have been released in the US first.



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kingofwale on 14 July 2008

140K on a gameboy means absolutely crap (sales wise), it's actually very comparable with 70K it sold on Wii.

the trend simply continued.



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Riachu on 14 July 2008
kingofwale said:
140K on a gameboy means absolutely crap (sales wise), it's actually very comparable with 70K it sold on Wii.

the trend simply continued.

140K is really good for a handheld game since they don't cost squat to make and they still don't.

 



 

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the_bloodwalker on 14 July 2008

Metroid is more successful outside Japan. In order to be more successful the core gamepplay has to be changed. an evolution different than the Prime Series



dib8rman on 14 July 2008

Metroid should of evolved but not into an FPS, Retro did have the talent to create a new genre for Metroid that would of evolved it properly from Super Metroid - instead they just did what works.

Combine that with FPS trend in Japan.



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ChronotriggerJM on 14 July 2008

Because the dev's abandoned the friggin awesome stuff like screw attack, moon jump, and super fast ultra friggin awesome boots just to spite me ;/ The Japanese didn't take too highly to it and demand justice because they feel sorry for me. :)

No offense to you SC, but I just don't think the series is what it used to be, and I mean that in a negative way, the new direction was a terrible one in my opinion and it doesn't even feel like the same universe for the series anymore. Completely different games with the new ones being way to focused on the shooting mechanics.



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