not surprising, knowing nintendo. first prime 3 now thisking zell said:Super Mario Galaxy 130k
not surprising, knowing nintendo. first prime 3 now thisking zell said:Super Mario Galaxy 130k
rakka said:not surprising, knowing nintendo. first prime 3 now this
DIrtyWeasel said:
that, combined with nintendo's shitty attempt in advertising retro's effort.AniHawk said:Prime 3 was never going to be a big seller. It's fucking Metroid Prime.
The only hardcore owners of the Wii are Nintendo fans. And Nintendo fans didn't buy many copies of the last two Metroid Primes either. MP3's numbers are pretty much in line with the rest of the series. That's my point.rakka said:that, combined with nintendo's shitty attempt in advertising retro's effort.
maybe if they marketed the game to those who'd actually buy (core gamers, nintendo fans) it it wouldn't have done so bad. it didn't deserve those horrible wii would like to play ads
Fixed.AniHawk said:The only hardcore owners of the Wii are Nintendo fans. And Nintendo fans didn't buy many copies of every Metroid game ever. MP3's numbers are pretty much in line with the rest of the series. That's my point.
Magicpaint said:Fixed.
In Anihawk land, yeah. Thankfully that stays completely in the fantasy realm where it belongs.AniHawk said:Metroid Prime is a separate series from Metroid. Like what Wario Ware is to Wario Land.
king zell said:
Vaandaviii said:Ok so what about those 700.000 copies sold already back in summer? Are japanese so incredibly lazy? :lol
Magicpaint said:In Anihawk land, yeah. Thankfully that stays completely in the fantasy realm where it belongs.
it's doing worse atm, and i doubt it'll outsell the first one.MP3's numbers are pretty much in line with the rest of the series. That's my point.
well in that case, nintendo had a perfect chance to attract more of them, but instead attempted to sell the game to mom and dad, who didn't buy the game in the end anywayAniHawk said:The only hardcore owners of the Wii are Nintendo fans.
So Pinball and Hunters were somehow expected to sell as much as an actual Metroid game? Those do not belong there. Prime 3 is very likely to sell better than Prime 2 (which came close enough to reaching a million), and if it does, that's be 2 out of 3 in the Prime series, which is comparable to the 2D Games.AniHawk said:I only mean saleswise. For instance, the five Metroid Prime games (1-3, Pinball, Hunters) only have one million seller in the bunch, whereas, out of the five Metroid games (1, 2, Super, Fusion, Zero), there are four million sellers.
I think the only series that actually got a boost or never went down were the 3D Zeldas. They've pretty much stayed as popular as they've always been in WW sales.
rakka said:it's doing worse atm, and i doubt it'll outsell the first one.
well in that case, nintendo had a perfect chance to attract more of them, but instead attempted to sell the game to mom and dad, who didn't buy the game in the end anyway
by 'more of them', i meant gamers.AniHawk said:There aren't "more of them."
rakka said:by 'more of them', i meant gamers.
and besides, my point is prime 3 would have sold more, had the marketing been better. you're trying to say otherwise?
AniHawk said:It probably would have sold a little better,
true - and again, no one but nintendo is to blame for that.but I think the hardcore "gamer" segment is firmly rooted in 360 territory.
rakka said:
true - and no one but nintendo is to blame for that.
Which in turn was the hardcore gamers fault for not buying Nintendo stuff.rakka said:
true - and again, no one but nintendo is to blame for that.
can't blame them for not wanting to buy a console that looked like it didtitiklabingapat said:Which in turn was the hardcore gamers fault for not buying Nintendo stuff.
tnw said:I think it would have been fun to have some suits/power ups from earlier games. Feather is my favorite for sure, but a hammer bros. suit, etc from SMB3 would have been pretty awesome.
Nintendo thought otherwise and thus we get Wii Fit.rakka said:can't blame them for not wanting to buy a console that looked like it did
AniHawk said:The first one sold 3m WW and was bundled with the GC at one point. So no, MP3 won't beat the first one. It should beat the second one though, and make the series a disappointing one overall with its own disappointing numbers, thus making it sell in line with the rest of the series.
There aren't "more of them." In fact, judging by the drop off after Prime for Echoes, and the general indifference towards Hunters, I was a little surprised 370k people cared enough about it to buy it in the first 6 weeks.
It's sorta like expecting Radiant Dawn to signficantly beat Path of Radiance in sales. It's a nice thought, but it's not going to happen.
Sir, you are a comedy genius and I want to subscribe.Enk said:Dammit Reggie how did you get in here!?!
I swear everytime I turn around he sneaks in to grab a piece of my cheese (I do have some tasty cheese). It's even worse when the Miyamoto crawls into my window at night to plant a mushroom garden under my bed. And don't get me started on J. Allard! Ever wondered where he's been? Did you see Halloween (the original not the rotten remake)? Everytime I look out my window, there he is, staring at me behind my oak tree with those soft, haunting eyes, the light glistening off his head. I blink once and he vanishes occasionally leaving behind copies of Azurik: Rise of Perathia.
Oh the horrible life I live.
ksamedi said:I think 3 being the best in the series has something to do with it, Its much more playeble. I think word of mouth could push it even beyond Prime 1.
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Tieno said:Mind quoting the post? Not everyone has an account at cheapassgamer...
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Mudhoney said:There doesn't appear to be a scan of the promotion yet, so it's not confirmed yet.
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ksamedi said:I think 3 being the best in the series has something to do with it, Its much more playeble. I think word of mouth could push it even beyond Prime 1.
Slurpy said:The thing is, noone takes you seriously because your comments are so non-sensical, as you keep saying stuff like this, that if would be ore fun if.. then state something that is clearly in the game. There ARE suits from earlier games, much more than any other recent Mario game, and a ton of throw-backs in that sense. Basically, you're grasping at straws, and want ALL power-ups from previous games, or something unrealistic and ridiculous like that. Its fantastic that they decided to mix old and new power-ups. And a feather? REALLY? I mean you're pseudo flying almost the entire game, floating, then you also have the bee power-up. A feather would have been redundant as hell. Not like there masses stretches of nothing just to fly over. It just seems as if you're making a huge effort to find things 'wrong' with the game, and coming up with odd crap instead of attempting to take the game at face value and enjoying whats there. Its somewhat pathetic, especially in light of your repeated insistence that the game looked unimpressive before it was even out. One would define it as trolling.
....and I usually only get wowed by hi def next gen games.
tnw said:state something clearly in the game. Okay, I don't think the bee suit is cool. It wasn't a good idea in my opinion. it doesn't have to be from a previous game necessarily, but the bee suit isn't really that great. You are NOT pseudo flying most of the game, everything around you is, but not you. You don't actually have any control over mario when you go between planets, so you don't really fly except for when you are a bee.
And me 'making a huge effort' to find what's wrong with the game, you easily ignore everything positive I've said about it, but since it's in uber hype mode at the moment, it's sacrilidge to post anything critical about the game. I don't think not participating in circle jerk means I'm a troll. I tried to make a post where I highlighted things I liked about it and things I didn't like about it, and you in particular zero in on everything negative i said about the game.
>_>
Magicpaint said:In Anihawk land, yeah. Thankfully that stays completely in the fantasy realm where it belongs.
tnw said:state something clearly in the game. Okay, I don't think the bee suit is cool. It wasn't a good idea in my opinion. it doesn't have to be from a previous game necessarily, but the bee suit isn't really that great. You are NOT pseudo flying most of the game, everything around you is, but not you. You don't actually have any control over mario when you go between planets, so you don't really fly except for when you are a bee.
And me 'making a huge effort' to find what's wrong with the game, you easily ignore everything positive I've said about it, but since it's in uber hype mode at the moment, it's sacrilidge to post anything critical about the game. I don't think not participating in circle jerk means I'm a troll. I tried to make a post where I highlighted things I liked about it and things I didn't like about it, and you in particular zero in on everything negative i said about the game.
>_>