After a long decade of absence, the classiest hero in the Nintendo catalog finally reappears this year with Metroid Dread, the opportunity to test the popularity of the license, far from that of Super Mario and others: The Legend of Zelda.
While many gamers are still waiting for the three-dimensional saga to return with the relaunched Metroid Prime 4, the release of a new 2D episode is sure to be a test for producer Yoshio Sakamoto, who hopes to continue working despite his potential retiree status from the industry .
She comes back alone
Fortunately for him and for Nintendo, Metroid Dread today confirms gamers’ interest in the series, as the game sold 854,000 copies in the US in October 2021. In the words of Doug Bowser, the well-appointed CEO of the American subsidiary, our colleagues reported on The edge, Metroid Dread simply records “the best shoe in the entire Metroid range”, downright:
In third place of the best-selling games behind Far Cry 6 and Back 4 Blood, Metroid Dread scores much better than the last “more or less 2D” episode, Other M, which sold 284,526 copies in September 2010, despite the (very ) good sale of the wii. Not content with nearing a million sales across the Atlantic, Samus’ latest adventures seem to be able to reach a much larger audience than they have been before the game had also achieved a good score when it was launched in the UK and was again ranked third among best-selling games. That’s equivalent to a thousand copies, close to the Metroid Prime record
The Switch OLED, launched on the same day, will have found buyers in 314,000 homes, and this new iteration accounted for 44% of Switch sales in October, totaling 711,000. No more needed Bowser to add a layer:
The Switch OLED has got off to a good start, and we think these numbers are a very good indicator of the performance we can expect over the holiday season.
So that should inspire the bounty hunters who occupy this corner of the Internet, but also increase the pressure on the part of the Retro Studios a bit. The latest news is that Metroid Prime 4 is expected “someday” on the Switch.
