
Metroid Dread Sales Top 3 Million Units - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 31 July 2023 / 7,564 ViewsThe CEO of Metroid Dread developer MercurySteam Enric Álvarez speaking with GameReactor revealed the game has sold over three million units worldwide.
"I don't think development was chaotic," said Álvarez when asked if development on the game was chaotic. "Chaotic development doesn't end with one of the best games in the franchise. It doesn't end with a game that has sold over three million-odd copies. It doesn't end with a game that has won awards TGA. That's all I have to say about it."
Álvarez was asked if there are plans for more Metroid games from MercurySteam and he said, "Well, about the projects we are doing today, there is nothing I can say. So a simple 'no comment' will suffice."
Metroid Dread released for the Nintendo Switch in October 2021.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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great game incredible franchise. I do not understand why these games dont sale more.
When I was younger I was tossing up between the Sega Mega Drive (Genesis for the American folk) or the Super Nintendo.
Went to a mates place and played 5 minutes of Super Metroid.... Then went down to my local toy store and bought a SNES and a copy of the game that same day.
Since then, every few years I have done a playthrough of Super Metroid in just a few hours.
To say I loved it, was an understatement, it got me hooked into Nintendo's ecosystem (SNES) where I went to buy other games for the console. - So Nintendo ended up with more cash out of me than just Metroid.
I have Metroid Samus Returns (Which NEEDS a Switch port!) and Dread, brilliant games, but I don't feel they are as tightly tuned as the SNES original, so I haven't felt as attached.
The series itself is criminally underrated, but I get it. It's not the kind of game everyone would want to play as it can get frustrating looking in every nook and cranny, it requires a special kind of gamer with lots of patience.
These games are meant to be a "hook" to get people in love with a franchise and draw people to Nintendo's platform, they don't need to be a big seller for Nintendo to gain customers over the long term, hence why they can justify their development even if they only a move a few million units.
More than... love it. Well deserved. I feel like this is one of the games that could benefit from Nintendo cutting price on games after a while or bringing back the Nintendo Select line.
Topped 3m a long time ago. Was confirmed at 2.9m March 2022.
Very impressive. While Metroid Prime could remain the best selling in the series thank to its release on GameCube, Wii (as part of the trilogy) and now its remaster, Dread is the best-selling release in the entire series. And who knows, maybe even Metroid Prime Remastered alone could outsell Dread.
You can't add up the sales of multiple.platform versions of a game with a single platform game. The GameCube version of Prime is the highest seller of the Prime games so that's all you can use for a fair comparison.
Not bad, but considering how other Nintendo franchises really do record numbers on Switch for their respective franchise definitely not great either.
It deserves such good sales.
That took a while. Really hoped it'd have sold better but I suppose best-selling entry in the franchise is good enough.
Oh yeah when is CESA white book this year? It's usually in August but someone told me it was late July.