An Nintendo representative has told journalist Stephen Totilo today that the combined sales of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond on the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 have in fact passed a million copies. There was quite a bit of discussion online about whether the latest Metroid Prime game had achieved one million sales after the Kyoto-based company didn’t mention Metroid Prime 4: Beyond in its recent financial report.
Nintendo says Metroid Prime 4 has sold over one million copies
Metroid is the type of franchise that underperforms in sales regardless if it’s good or not so 1 million is solid for the series.
Not when you wasted large amounts of money for years and scrapped the game and restarted with a long list if studios. Look Ubisoft has wasted over $537 million on Beyond Good And Evil 2.
My hope is Retro had to salvage a lot of the ideas from Nintendo developing it and did what they could AND that they get to make the sequel from the ground up themselves.
Worse case scenario… the bike and the linearity was their ideas and they suffered from losing key employees over the last couple decades.
No the people who made Prime series left this game was made by 343 staff that joined Retro it gives off so much Halo 5 energy. The hope you could have is the founders of Retro their studio Armature shut down under Meta so they could come back.
its fine, the amiibo black market made up for the losses
I think for Metroid fans you can just hope that Nintendo realise the failings with this game and that they are not failings of the franchise. The problem is that the reputation of the franchise has also been hurt, meaning that now even a great Metroid Prime game might not perform so well.
Hopefully not. I don’t actually know the sales numbers, but I’d like to think Dread and Prime Remastered sold decently on Switch to signal that the franchise is still very viable and wanted.
Whatever reason, Metroid Prime 4 had a development hell and I’d love to know the full story someday.
Retro could or will shut down and Prime is done. 2D Metroid I think is safe. Maybe they buy the studio MercurySteam.
The law of equivalent exchange after Metroid Dread
Why is everybody talking as though the game is a failure? The game is amazing! I can’t put it down. It’s beautiful, it’s cool, I love the linear story, and i love Vi-O-La… we should honestly be asking the question: how did Retro put out such a good game despite all of the development hell it went through early on?
Did it meet expectations problem is this game had a ton of studios and worse years of development being scrapped and started again they wasted money on that.
Why on earth should they shut down? Make another game immediately better yet make Astral Chain 2….something.