Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Has Sold Over 1 Million Units - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 February 2026 / 3,167 Views
Nintendo released its earnings report for the quarter ending December 31, 2025 earlier this week and one key game was notably absent from the list of games that sold over one million units.
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond released for the Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch on December 4, 2025 and the earnings report kept sales numbers separate for the two platforms, which meant no combined figures.
A Nintendo representative has told video game reporter Stephen Totilo that Metroid Prime 4: Beyond has sold over one million units when you combine the sales of the two versions.
"Following some consternation yesterday about neither the Switch nor Switch 2 versions of Metroid Prime 4 (Dec. 4) making Nintendo's million-seller list for the period ending Dec 31, a Nintendo rep confirmed to me today that the combined sales of those 2 versions have in fact passed a million copies," said Totilo.
The Metroid series has never been one of Nintendo's biggest selling franchises as the best-selling entry, Metroid Dread for the Switch, has sold over three million units. The first Metroid Prime for the GameCube comes in second with 2.84 million units sold.
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All things considered those are pretty good numbers.
Game should have never shipped, imo. You eat that R&D. Don't tarnish such a legendary IP. Metroid deserved better.
Can't get lower than Federation Force.
Other M, I get.
But what's so bad about Federation Force? By all accounts, it was a perfectly fine game. It was just the terrible timing of its announcement that screwed it over, that's not the game's fault.
And let all of Retro's work go to waste? Fuck no
Rather no turd than a polished turd.
I rather get Metroid 6, Super Metroid is already perfect™
Super Metroid is already perfect.
But considering how incredible Links Awakening and Super Mario RPG remakes were, which stayed true to the original releases... But brought forth into the 21st century, it would still be a worthy release.
Remember, Super Metroid was designed for 4:3 aspect CRT displays, it doesn't scale well to a 16:9 LCD or OLED.
..And as a result of modern displays having much higher input latency, is also not great.
The world has simply moved on, but the games from the SNES era havent.
Plus SNES console games are starting to run faster due to the ceramic resonator getting old.
The game needs a proper remake to bring it up to the modern era... Until then I am still happy playing it on my old CRT TV on my SNES console once a year.
Prime 4 hardly tarnishes anything. It's a good game weighed down by some stupid design choices that prevent it from being great, but it's nowhere close to the blight on the franchise that Other M was.
Prime has been "tarnished" since Prime 3
Totally, Metroid hasn't historically been a huge seller. Very nice.
I wouldn't call them good numbers. This game was in development for 8 years. It needed to sell better than this. Maybe good legs save it, but Metroid isn't really known for that.
Here's hoping that this will encourage Nintendo to remaster or even just port MP2 and 3 to Switch 2.
Doesn’t deserve it. Worse than every game in the trilogy in every way. I wanted it to be better than the trilogy because metroid deserves more innovation. Instead we got corporate laziness and reddit humor
MP4 was essentially designed as a Switch 1 game so their scope was limited. If there is a MP5 it will be designed from the ground up as a Switch 2 game and be much more ambitious. People expected far too much from MP4 considering it is essentially a Switch 1 game. For a Switch 1 game, it was perfectly ok.
Good game but the Prime series never sells well
