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Metroid Dread is the biggest launch for the franchise in UK chart history, beating Prime 3 by a good margin (doesn't include digital downloads)
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Wii/DS gen really boosted Ninty's profile in Europe. Not surprising. Prime 3 was also the last million seller in the series until now.
Metroid Dread is the highest-grossing Metroid game launch in UK history | UK Boxed Charts
Updated: This article originally reported that Metroid Dread was the fastest-selling Metroid game in the UK based on bo…
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Fully desreved imo!
More people play games now than when previous Metroid games were released. It'd be surprising if it wasn't clearly the fastest selling to be honest.
I feel that way about most records Switch games have set. Still nice to see for the series of course.
Nintendo's UK store failed to get me my special edition for launch day so I did the same! I'm not proud..
We have no specific sales figures because it didn't sell over a million and Nintendo does not report sales of games that haven't sold over a million.
I think this is quite expected.
Metroid Prime 3 launched on Wii which was a platform with majority causal gamers although huge installbase.
Switch with also big installbase has more hardcore gamers, then the sales of Metroid will be easily beating the Prime 3.
Congrats to Nintendo.
Metroid Prime 3 launched on Wii which was a platform with majority causal gamers although huge installbase.
Switch with also big installbase has more hardcore gamers, then the sales of Metroid will be easily beating the Prime 3.
Congrats to Nintendo.
I got my SE from the Nintendo store on Friday, I didn't realise how big it was going to be. I didn't want to open it after my SE version of Samus Returns has shot up to £150 on Ebay, so decided to just buy it off the eShop aswell
You forgot at least three factors:
- These are only physical sales numbers. Many people buy their games digital now.
- There are more games and gaming platforms available people can choose from.
- There are many other long running series that have declined or vanished despite potential more customers. Anyway Samus Returns was not a big seller and is relatively new game in the series.
I bought 3 copies, 1 standard edition and 2 special editions. The two special editions haven't arrived yet though but I plan on saving them both
Fucking crazy.
So glad this is doing well. Otherwise I'd imagine this franchise would be dead.
Thank god it is selling well enough. Its such a good game. Metroid deserves the chance to become a pillar of nintendo in this era of gaming.
Maybe the nature of the game being less "casual" than some of the other series in there means it has a higher digital share
The file size of the game is really small too, only 4 gigabytes I think? People might lean more towards the digital version because of that. Anyway, really curious to see how it it sells in the end. Maybe we have to wait until Nintendo shares sales data of CY Q4 somewhere in January next year.
It only really makes sense to compare it to previous nintendo user bases, not the market at large. Corruption came out less than a year into the Wii's lifespan, so there were <20m Wii's in the wild. There are probably around 90m Switches out there, so that probably explains much of the increase (I would guess buyers of metroid are likely to be early adopters, but that's not really quantifiable).
Obvious caveats with just one market and only the boxed sales but this is promising for Metroid, looking likely that it'll be the first game in the series for a long while to go over 2m.
I don't think the numbers will go wild (it still did less than a Pokemon spin-off at launch in the one data point we have) but 3m, or thereabouts, seems achievable.
I don't think the numbers will go wild (it still did less than a Pokemon spin-off at launch in the one data point we have) but 3m, or thereabouts, seems achievable.
Awesome news! Given Snap was at 2.3 million after 4 months, it'll probably track up to 3 lifetime, so hopefully that means Dread will break 2 mil quite easily.
Very excited as this Metroid resurgence. Possibly Prime 1 remake next year let's gooo!!
Very excited as this Metroid resurgence. Possibly Prime 1 remake next year let's gooo!!
Glad to see it's doing well! I'm loving my time with it, even if I found a couple of things a little obtuse (probably my favorite Mercury Steam game so far tho)
I would imagine if anything, the less casual a game is the higher its proportion of physical sales will be at launch. It's not casuals going out and buying the special edition and amiibos. Physical might appeal to more casuals later on once the game has been on shelves a bit longer, but in my mind a less casual game will probably sell a lot more physically than digitally.
As a long term Metroid fan that's the kind of news you love to hear!
I hope it's looking the same in other regions as well.
I hope it's looking the same in other regions as well.
As much as I liked Kid Icarus on the 3DS, this is such amazing prospect.
Well deserved.
Only a couple of hours in, but, so far, I'm enjoying it more than any of the modern Metroidvanias I've played, including Hollow Knight and Ori 1/2.