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Prime did 2.8M, so people round the figure up to 3M. Dread would need to sell that much to become the best-selling Metroid game, but realistically it needs to sell way less to be considered a success.
Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition has so many QoL improvements, bazinga. Having a blast.
2 million would be a success for Metroid.
Nintendo's expectations aren't high to begin with I mean look at Animal Crossing sales expectations from them.
Nintendo's expectations aren't high to begin with I mean look at Animal Crossing sales expectations from them.
Dread's topping pre order charts, and old games are seeing good performance on virtual console charts. To me that signals old fans as well as people trying to get into the series are excited for it.
I mean you can argue that there aren't a lot of people buying VC games now anyway but still, nothings indicating the game will perform badly.
Every metric we have is showing that it'll have a great performance for what it is I think.
I mean you can argue that there aren't a lot of people buying VC games now anyway but still, nothings indicating the game will perform badly.
Every metric we have is showing that it'll have a great performance for what it is I think.
OK, that makes more sense. I always thought Prime only did 2 million flat, but it being pretty close to 3 makes more sense. I think it will all boil down to how good Dread actually is on launch. If it's similar in quality to Samus Returns, I suppose 2-4 million would be the ballpark. The better it is, the more likely I'll say around 5 million or so.
God I really hope Splatoon 3 finally decides its time to ditch a lot of the dumb shit Splatoon has embraced and recognizes how to be a modern multiplayer game with options. I gave Splatoon a lot of credit and excused a lot of things as Nintendo's first kind of properly big online shooter game, but the series has had 6-7 years of a honey moon period and I'm past excusing dumb things like how hard it makes playing with friends, bad choices for map rotations, not saving progress and rank server side, limiting Salmon Run to every other day for some dumb reason, etc.
Splatoon 3 needs to actually evolve the series into something that isn't held back by a myriad of Nintendo-isms for me to be excited.
Splatoon 3 needs to actually evolve the series into something that isn't held back by a myriad of Nintendo-isms for me to be excited.
There's 2 conversations there: what Nintendo deems as a success and what's the potential of Metroid. Of course Nintendo will deem Metroid as a success at a lower number (probably around 2 million). The potential is higher as far as I'm concerned.
Nintendo will always make Metroid games, even if that's years or decades apart. I don't think it really matters too much what it sells. The idea that 2D Metroid rests on Dread is silly, to me.
Also I doubt Dread specifically is a game that needs to sell very much to be considered a success.
Also I doubt Dread specifically is a game that needs to sell very much to be considered a success.
Personally all my big wants re:Splatoon 3 are much more big picture stuff.
I really need to see what the game is going to do beyond just adding new maps/QoL features/new story campaign/etc. Splatoon 2 already felt like a heavily upgraded port in a lot of aspects and getting Splatoon 3 on the very same system four years after Octo Expansion really has me wanting them to bring the thunder. I've said this a lot of times before, but the fact that it's still branding itself as a numbered sequel when most Nintendo games don't do that anymore gives a sense of "this is what it's all been building up to".
I really need to see what the game is going to do beyond just adding new maps/QoL features/new story campaign/etc. Splatoon 2 already felt like a heavily upgraded port in a lot of aspects and getting Splatoon 3 on the very same system four years after Octo Expansion really has me wanting them to bring the thunder. I've said this a lot of times before, but the fact that it's still branding itself as a numbered sequel when most Nintendo games don't do that anymore gives a sense of "this is what it's all been building up to".
Oh hey! And yes indeed it does. The quest tracker helper with map icons alone is well worth it, it saves a TON of time.
The only Metroid game I see potentially reaching 5 million is Prime 4.
Dread is not that game.
Dread is not that game.
It seriously, seriously does! I'm having such a blast completing so many sidequests that felt so tiresome all those years ago.
Yeah, my optimistic prediction is 3.5M. If it does even better, I'm opening the champagne.
Number one item for me is a slightly higer tickrate, at least on par with Splatoon 1. The vast majority of double-kills in 2 feel janky and unfair
You can see the diffrence in the marketing campaign between Dread and Samus returns. Samus Returns has been announced in the Treehouse at the end of the 3DS life. It didn't include in the direct that year were most of the hype was on Metroid Prime 4. While Dread was the highlight of the Direct and it will be released with a new Hardware
All I know is I did my part with Metroid. Is already paid off. Just waiting for the release date.
The other way to make Metroid more talked about that people here probably disagree with is more time seeing Samus' face.
That doesn't mean it has to be sexualized, doesn't mean it has to be talky and character assassination like Other M, but showing the woman behind the suit would make her stand out as a strong female protagonist more. Makes it more relatable and approachable.
More key art of Samus in the suit but with her helmet off etc. A new hairstyle, something that promotes fan art. Idk I think it would help but it's hard to talk about suitless Samus without the discussion immediately going to sexualization on here though.
That doesn't mean it has to be sexualized, doesn't mean it has to be talky and character assassination like Other M, but showing the woman behind the suit would make her stand out as a strong female protagonist more. Makes it more relatable and approachable.
More key art of Samus in the suit but with her helmet off etc. A new hairstyle, something that promotes fan art. Idk I think it would help but it's hard to talk about suitless Samus without the discussion immediately going to sexualization on here though.
The person putting them forth didn't want to reveal their sources to mods so they got banned.
Was it really small? I don't remember that, but it's been a bit since I played it. It could be that after playing XCX it seemed big, that game has the tiniest most illegible UI I've ever seen
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Honestly I love "EMMI Award Winner" so props to Dark Cloud for that. We'll do a vote closer to when the time comes haha
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$10 for DLC that will likely give me hours of content. I'm not sure. I'll have to think about it.
$10 were of donuts and a big bottle of ice tea at Wawa. Here's my money without hesitation.
$10 were of donuts and a big bottle of ice tea at Wawa. Here's my money without hesitation.
Ohh yeah they should use that for the Metroid Dread OT
we can use mine for OT27 here haha
radical take: all of these series' are good and all of the games in these series' are good*
and even if you'd like them to have further reach, they're all pretty popular at the end of the day
so like why pit them against each other?
*I will NOT stop yelling about the things that really truly bother me about Xenoblade Chronicles 2 but I mean enough people like it in a vacuum for me to assume it must be, in some ways, a good game. FIGHT IN THE TINY TEXT LET'S GOOOOO
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