Something that has become clear throughout all these years is that Nintendo Switch and its most important video games are sweeping sales, with figures in the millions. In it latest financial report published by Nintendo we can see that this same case has been applied to Metroid Dread, the latest installment of the saga developed by MercurySteam.
Such has been its success that, as indicated from VGChartzhas become the best-selling Metroid of the entire franchise with its 2.9 million units soldthus surpassing the magnificent Game Cube Metroid Prime, which to date occupied the first position on the list with its 2.84 million units.
To give you a better idea, this is the ranking of the best-selling Metroid throughout history:
- Metroid Dread (Nintendo Switch) – 2.90 million
- Metroid Prime (Game Cube) – 2.84 million
- Metroid (NES) – 2.73 million
- Metroid II (Game Boy) – 1.72 million
- Metroid Fusion (Game Boy Advance) – 1.6 million
- Super Metroid (SNES) – 1.42 million
- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Wii) – 1.41 million
- Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Game Cube) – 1.1 million
- Metroid Prime: Hunters (Nintendo 3DS) – 1.08 million
One detail that stands out is that Metroid Dread has managed to climb to the first position in just half a yearsince it went on sale on October 8, so what the Spanish studio has achieved with Samus Aran’s latest adventure is impressive.
