SirNinja
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Nope. Game looks great on it, and not enough people have a Switch yet. Switch is getting Prime 4 besides.
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Sakamoto: Want more 2D Metroid? Buy Samus Returns
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Nope. Game looks great on it, and not enough people have a Switch yet. Switch is getting Prime 4 besides.
Don't be overly dramatic. Metroid has a history of not having very high demand and that's all he's saying. He wants to keep making more games but unless demand increases dramatically the long periods between games will continue.
You want more 2D Metroid? Then don't let this be another Zero Mission.
All the leftover copies clogging up $9.99 bins at toys r us stores everywhere.
Why are you posting Chartz numbers.Don't be overly dramatic. Metroid has a history of not having very high demand and that's all he's saying. He wants to keep making more games but unless demand increases dramatically the long periods between games will continue.
You want more 2D Metroid? Then don't let this be another Zero Mission.
Haha, I gave up on trying to get the LE real fast, lol. Demand forecasts have never been one of Nintendo's strong suits. The NA one isn't that great though, so I don't feel like I'm really missing anything.
By the way, since they're people asking how to get Other M 2...
What do I do to get a Metroid Pinball 2? Not a terrifig game, but I still find it really enjoyable... Still playing it from time to time, in fact.
Also, I thought ******** was dead for good? T_T
Edit: OK, it's still banned, good news
What do I do to get a Metroid Pinball 2? Not a terrifig game, but I still find it really enjoyable... Still playing it from time to time, in fact.
Zero mission numbers are really, really sad, it's a wonderful game.Don't be overly dramatic. Metroid has a history of not having very high demand and that's all he's saying. He wants to keep making more games but unless demand increases dramatically the long periods between games will continue.
You want more 2D Metroid? Then don't let this be another Zero Mission.
Also, I thought ******** was dead for good? T_T
Edit: OK, it's still banned, good news
This should have been obvious to everyone here. No 2D Metroid at all for over 10 years when Zero Mission bombed, then Metroid is dead completely after Other M bombs. This very much feels like Nintendo testing their audience after all the demands for a new Metroid game to see whether there they put their money where their mouth is.
SinCityAssassin
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They...they have a regular edition of the game readily available.
And you're saying they shouldn't produce a Limited edition in a limited quantity?
xmajinjoshx
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I planned on buying the Collectors Edition and Amiibo anyways. We haven't had a 2D Metroid for 13 years. Hopefully this will do well enough to finally warrant a sequel to Fusion, a la Metroid 5.
ZombiePlatypus
Member
Yea this is where I'm at. Considering it innately has a regular hard mode in the game, I kinda wanna buy it still though, just to do my little part in off-setting the amiibo backlash.
Maintenance
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Actually small confession i liked Other M but only because a friend got it and we played through it together with some other friends.
Funny enough i got that friend into Metroid lol. We played through the Prime Trilogy with like 4-5 peeps..
Ah those good old days when i had much free time and my friends too and had a gaming room were we gathered daily to play all kinds of games on all platforms.....amazing this was when i was 13-14 or so the game room lasted 5 or so years was awesome everyone brought games food etc and more people too etc, eventually we got older and got work or to college/go out/girlfriends etc so that was when it stopped still my favorite gaming experience.
Btw i do dislike the story tho played it again a few months ago (never played it since so that's 7 years ago last i played other m) gameplay is not that bad but the story is cringeworthy AF. Maybe as a teen i did not care about it or something.
I myself got into Metroid through a friend in primary school he gave me Zero Mission. Still got the game and luckily it does not have a battery that can die like some advance games can have sadly, but a chip and my kyogre sp still works so i replay that one from time to time damn amazing game.
Funny enough i got that friend into Metroid lol. We played through the Prime Trilogy with like 4-5 peeps..
Ah those good old days when i had much free time and my friends too and had a gaming room were we gathered daily to play all kinds of games on all platforms.....amazing this was when i was 13-14 or so the game room lasted 5 or so years was awesome everyone brought games food etc and more people too etc, eventually we got older and got work or to college/go out/girlfriends etc so that was when it stopped
still my favorite gaming experience.Btw i do dislike the story tho played it again a few months ago (never played it since so that's 7 years ago last i played other m) gameplay is not that bad but the story is cringeworthy AF. Maybe as a teen i did not care about it or something.
I myself got into Metroid through a friend in primary school he gave me Zero Mission. Still got the game and luckily it does not have a battery that can die like some advance games can have sadly, but a chip and my kyogre sp still works so i replay that one from time to time damn amazing game.
SinCityAssassin
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Unlike the Capcom threat, they have an actually new game.
7DollarHagane
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Unless you're some kind of moron that likes Metroid but gets yourself all worked up about amiibo or 3ds or whatever other stupid excuse.
DecoReturns
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I'm surprised people don't like being told the truth from Sakamoto himself.
Everyone knows it's true what he's saying. Why the negative reaction to it?
Everyone knows it's true what he's saying. Why the negative reaction to it?
Well, it's not officially a limited edition.
Besides, I'm fine with it being limited, but there's a point where it just becomes ridiculous.
1500 copy for France is just... stupid. Some resellers chains got 2-digit numbers allotments. Preorders haven't lasted minutes, they lasted seconds, and half of the time they were cancelled later.
Amiibo I understand....but /this/ is just common business sense.
Because every game series ever works like this and everyone knows it, so when someone involved feels the need to say it outright it feels patronizing and demanding. Not to mention this time it's coming from the same guy that put the series in life support for so long in many fans' eyes.
Yeah I don't think it is a coincidence we are getting both a new 2D Metroid and Metroid Prime at a very similar time. Looks like Nintendo is tedting the waters with both gameplay styles to see if either finds an audience.
Fire Emblem Awakening worked a miracle for that IP so I'm hoping the same happens here.
Earthbound64
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I've had the Special Edition preordered since it went up.
I hope every Metroid going forward is 2D, and that the 3D Prime games are completely dropped - and I'm voting with my wallet.
I hope every Metroid going forward is 2D, and that the 3D Prime games are completely dropped - and I'm voting with my wallet.
DecoReturns
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Series was on life support long before Other M.
SinCityAssassin
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It was literally a musing, not a call to action. He's saying he'd love to make a 2D Metroid after Samus Returns, but he just clarifies that having such a thing greenlit will be affected by how many people buy a 2D Metroid game. Which happens to be Samus Returns.
Earthbound64
Banned
Series was on life support with Yokoi's passing.
There was alot of guilt throwing in the past Metroid threads on this.
SoundPulse
Banned
It goes without saying. When developers do pull out the threat, it usually bodes extremely poorly for the future of the series.
You never know. Team Ninja could be making Prime 4 with options to "Switch" play styles.
Take a shit on the floor and go wild.
TheSpaceBetween
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I don't think the sales are really down, I'm pretty sure it has always been a limited success.
Though I wouldn't be surprised it sells not worse than 3DS Castlevanias, I'm sure they could produce 2D Metroids with reasonable budget and make a small net income on those.
DecoReturns
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The thread title makes its sound like a threat. But the article doesn't. Just answering the question honestly. He would love to make another 2D game, it all comes down to if Samus Returns is successful.
SinCityAssassin
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Some People: GUYS BUY THIS NEW METROID GAME SO NINTENDO KNOWS THERE'S STILL A MARKET FOR NEW METROID GAMES.
Sakamoto: If there is another opportunity to make another Metroid, that is something that I would love to do. Of course, that really depends on how much people really want to buy a 2D Metroid.
Some People: WOW GUYS FUCK THIS GAME AND BOYCOTT IT NINTENDO IS TAKING THIS GAME HOSTAGE FROM THE FANS.
Jon Carter
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This would have been a definite buy if it were also on Switch, but I don't really want to spend $40 on the 3DS anymore. It feels like a game that should have been cross-gen. It's a flawed test, as the 3DS user base isn't as active as it used to be and a good amount of core Nintendo fans - the ones likely to buy a Metroid game - have moved on to the Switch.
Maintenance
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Alex_Mexico
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1.5 million seller for the previous and critically acclaimed game in the series (Prime 3) is hardly life support. Other M did more damage than you think. It created the longest drought since SM->Prime1 and made Nintendo think that a spinoff like FF on 3DS was a good idea. That's how bad the situation for Metroid was.
If you want more on disk content locked behind $30 amiibos, buy Metroid Samus Returns.
Spieler Eins
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Metroid actually never existed.
SinCityAssassin
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Literally how is that a threat. It is likelier he gets to make another 2D Metroid in the future if the game sells well. He's just musing the common sense reality.
More like people pissing on others for not wanting to support a game on a system they don't want to continue supporting, or more importantly not buying it because it locks a difficulty mode behind a expensive hard to get plastic toy that was made before launch. But sure you can use your example if you want.
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