Metroid Dread is Now the Best-Selling Metroid Game - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 10 May 2022 / 3,256 Views
With Nintendo's latest earnings report for the quarter ending March 31, 2022, a new record has been set as Metroid Dead is now the best-selling Metroid game of all time.
Metroid Dead has sold 2.90 million units worldwide since its release in October 2021, while Metroid Prime, the previous best-selling entry, sold 2.84 million units on the GameCube.
The original Metroid sold 2.73 million units, Metroid II: Return of Samus sold 1.72 million units, Metroid Fusion sold 1.60 million units, and Super Metroid sold 1.42 million units.
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption sold 1.41 million and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes sold 1.10 million units.
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Makes me hopeful for what kind of numbers we'll get when Metroid Prime 4 finally releases!
My thoughts on this? Metroid Prime 4, despite being originally announced for Switch, will become a next-gen Nintendo title. For the first time, N's president wouldn't comment on whether they would release new hardware this fiscal year (ending March 31, 2023). They recently delayed BotW 2 to early 2023; and there is speculation that some of the latest footage for it was too good for Switch graphics. My guess? New hardware release in March 2023, with a BotW 2 simultaneous release on Switch and new system (just like how the fist Breath of the Wild released on Switch launch day/Wii U at the same time). And circling back to MP4 - I think it is still so far away, 2024 at the earliest, that I can see Nintendo making a new-system exclusive at that point.
Wonder what prime would have sold if the GameCube sold 100 million units plus?
Hard to say. The market at that time might not have necessarily been kinder to Metroid.
So well deserved. Such an incredible game! Only sad thing is that Metroid is still a low sales franchise, considering that this is on a 100+ million system. Would have loved to see Dread completely break out of the standard Metroid sales range and fly past 5 million. But maybe this is showing that Prime 4 could do that seeing as that will be viewed as much more of an AAA game.
I feel like 2D games are kind of losing a bit of steam on Nintendo's IPs. Kirby was stuck and had to evolve, DK TF sales fumbled after Returns even though it was better, NSMBU DX is performing welll but nothing incredible compared to the 3D Mario games when before it was way bigger.
So, to me, 3 millions for this game makes me hopefull Prime 4 can sell over 5 million units since it will be a more modern looking experience and so easier to promote.
I guess I'm gonna have to pick it up eventually too.
Oh. When I saw 2.9 million I was worried. I had mistakenly thought prime was in the low 3.x's.
First Metroid to cross 3 million units I'm sure.
Awesome news!
Now give us Metroid 4 ?
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Metroid 4 came out in 2002.
