Metroid Prime Remastered is the fourth best launch ever for the series in the UK
The physical launch of Metroid Prime Remastered is the fourth biggest launch for the series in the UK. Launch sales are around half of what the original did in 2003. But of course, the Remaster launched digitally weeks ago. Looks like the shadow drop strategy worked
— Christopher Dring (@Chris_Dring) March 5, 2023
by jvlauir
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Is that impressive? I don’t recall any high selling titles between Prime 3 and Dread. The GameCube had Prime 1 & 2, but it also had a much smaller user base than the Switch.
Imagine if they would have actually printed enough copies of the game. Maybe it could have moved up a couple notches.
Well, at least that’s better than 5th best! Tomorrow is calling your name.
Impressive. Imagine if Nintendo actually had more copies available for launch. Love how Nintendo went from 0 to 100 with all the Metroid games in the past year. Loving it.
This honestly isn’t that impressive sounding. If you consider that Sega home consoles were more popular in the UK and the GameCube didn’t make waves there either, that means it is basically going against Prime 3, Prime Trilogy, Other M, Dread, Fusion and Zero Mission. Even if you take the whole series, 4 out of 8 or 9 depending on how you count it, isn’t that braggable.
Obviously this is only physical, and considering the window between digital and physical as well as stock shortages (although they weren’t as big an issue outside the US), it doesn’t mean it did badly. But fourth best launch ever just seems to be a way to make it sound like it landed with a big splash, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Isn’t that bad? :/
y can’t metroid crawl?
Lol, Twitter won’t open for me anymore. I wonder how long ago it’s been the case
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Fourth best PHYSICAL launch
Is the UK also experiencing stock shortages like the US? That would lower sales of the launch.
I don’t get it. what makes the UK market more important than others?
Still not paying $40 for Prime 1.
This thread is full of “isn’t that bad” and “that’s actually good” takes, but honestly the real answer is that this alone isn’t very much information
Here’s what we need to consider:
– This is only talking about physical copies. This is comparing it largely to releases that were physical only so beating those out is a bit of an accomplishment, but then again, this isn’t generally the strongest selling franchise, so how impressive is that?
– We don’t know the breakdown of digital/physical. This is information that plays a huge role in the interpretation. Due to how it was released (shadow drop digital followed by a delayed physical release), we can probably safely assume the sales on this are more digital-heavy than most Switch titles and more digital-heavy than other Metroid titles, but by how much? Are we saying that that 10% of its sales amounted to being the 4th highest or 50%? This can play a HUGE role in the interpretation
– Physical games were reported to be in short supply, but since evidence of this is mostly anecdotal, it’s difficult to quantify
– How popular are Metroid titles in Europe compared to other regions? We can’t necessarily assume that popularity is equal across all regions
Basically this thread is people making assumptions on these unknowns then drawing the clear conclusion from that, but the truth is that this doesn’t tell us much of anything without more context/information
When they say “the series” do they mean Metroid in general, or specifically Metroid Prime? I would consider those different series, personally, just bundled under the same IP. Similar to how Pokemon Red/Blue and Pokemon Stadium are the same IP, but different series.
I’m assuming they are considering Metroid in general as a series through because there have been 5, I think, Metroid Prime launches and being 4 out of 5 on that list isn’t something to be excited about.
Metroid Prime is one of the best games ever if you haven’t played it then don’t wait any longer.
Means nothing. The game launched nearly a month a ago.
People who really wanted it bought it digital weeks ago and only die hard physical only fans waited for the physical release.
Nintendo doesn’t share digital sales figures, so the articles review isn’t particularly useful.
This is a really weird a vague statistic.
At face value, I’m inclined to believe that it’s not really all that good. It means that three Metroid games opened higher. That would be what? Dread, and probably two of the Prime games? Thing is, the Prime games sold well, but not gangbusters. So opening behind them isn’t really much to write home about. Outselling launch weekends for games on the GBA, GB, NES, and SNES really isn’t very impressive.
BUT, this game has already been on sale digitally for a bit. Surely it has sold a fair amount and that absolutely cut into these numbers. We also don’t know what the numbers are. Either way, I bet if you could factor in launch weekend digital sales. It would be at least top 2 for the series.
I just finished it on hard mode fantastic game
If its not reaching at least 5M sales then it sold poorly imo, switch has an install base of 120M
That’s an extremely qualified accomplishment, lmao
So happy for the success of this remastered GameCube game. Hoping against hope that it inspires them to remaster other excellent GameCube games. Maybe ones that feature super smash characters, as a random example, cause why not? Always fun when their big characters get revitalized, especially the ones from the original super smash cast, because you just know that they must be their core cast…
… FZero. I’m talking about FZero. I’m grasping at straws to try and give myself hope 😭 they didn’t need to do anything ‘new’ for Metroid prime remastered to be a huge success, heck I’d pay DLC for new race tracks and… ok getting off topic lol. Go Samus!!