>worst game of its series>sold millions of copies because Metroid fans are desperate and Nintendies don't know any betterSo... win?
dogshit thread
If your metric for a "win" is "megacorporation made money from fleecing idiots" then sure.
>>729103983Same thing happened to Pikmin.
>>729103983>sold millions of copies
>>729104921I hate to say it but it probably did. It didn’t sell enough to make its budget back but it sold enough for the inevitable sales chart threads to be fucking insufferable, and for secondaries to pretend they were real fans all along. It’s over, tranimeposter. We lost.
Why do copies sold even matter?Mainstream sheeple are all NPCsWhy pay attention to that shit?
Metroid doesn't sell. Its a niche game
>>729105326sell too little, franchise diessell too much, franchise dies
>>729105145>it probably did
>>729105145>still no numbers but the 20,000 copies sold in nipland
>>729105631Why is it so dependent on what the blithering masses want?Fuck
>>729106696Capitalism was a mistake.
>>729105145It's not the best metric, but the game sold like shit in Japan, more shit than most other Metroid content.No clue about elsewhere though.>>729107971The cornerstones of Capitalism are:>"if I don't like it, I wont buy it">"I don't like these prices, so I'll wait for a sale or buy it somewhere cheaper">"people aren't buying my shit, so I need to lower the price and/or make my product better and/or advertise harder"-so it sounds like Capitalism is doing its job.If they wanted more sales, they shouldn't have filled the game with things the Metroid fans don't like.
>>729106696Probably because there's really not enough OG Metroid / Prime fans to make up for the fact the game's been in active development for almost ten years and required something like 20 game dev studios to make, not just Retro and Bamco.Metroid has always almost exclusively been bought by Metroid fans, with very few exceptions, and even if MP4 had gotten 100% of all existing Metroid fans to buy it, I don't think that would be enough to cover the costs, so they banked on having to put extra shit in to try to pull in those Disney Marvel fans for extra sales, and I'm not convinced it worked outside of a few "the game's okay, why's everyone so mad????" posts across the internet.
>>729103983It might sell well, but if the game sucks it hurts the sales of future games. See: Final Fantasy.
