Punk DKCR sold upwards of 6 million copies, it's a massive hit. It's why retro would probably never go back to metroid. DK costs less and makes way more. Edge is mostly right, metroid financials make no sense. I feel metroid would do better on the other consoles.

edgecrusher said:

Metroid Prime on the Gamecube was mid-tier? It was by far one of the best looking and sounding games of the generation...most people thought it looked better than most Xbox games. This is what people expect from a Metroid game...they expect it to be one of the top games not just gameplay wise, but graphically. Just like they expect from a new Tomb Raider, or DOOM, or anything of that nature. Other M I'll give you....it was mid tier. Felt more like a side game while waiting for a REAL new game. But for a production like the Prime games, that's money.

Granted, the last one they did was on the Wii using Gamecube tech, so that saved them some cash there. But if they were to come out with a new Metroid in the vien of Prime, say as an NX game and it was one of the best looking, biggest games out there like Prime was in 2002 & it only sold say 1.5 million copies, you think they would make money on that? In this day and age?

Graphics aren't what cost games a lot of money. PC mods regularly have the best graphics in the entire indusry and people do them for free. I mean hell here is Metroid with cutting edge graphics right here. Just hire an artistic director and you're done. What costs games a lot of money are professionally done scores, cutscenes, massive overworlds, hundreds of hours of side content, etc. Yes, Metroid Prime was top-tier in the Gamecube days when it comes to presentation, but that was almost fifteen years ago. That is as relevant as saying Sonic the Hedgehog was a big budget game back in the early '90s, therefore a new entry in the 2D series would be a big budget entry today. Metroid Prime devolves from the classic Metroid formula of exploring a dungeon of multiple connected corridors. This may have been cutting edge in the early '90s but in the modern era, but in today's gaming world it is actually quite simple to execute, just take talent to polish it up to the level's Metroid.

Now I'm not saying making a 3D Metroid game on the NX would be cheap, but it would be more similar in terms of cost with say Star Fox Zero than it would be with The Division. In short a new Metroid on the NX would absolutely make money in this day in age.

EDIT - Metroid Prime on the Gamecube sold 2.84 million units.

Punk Rebel Ecks said:

Graphics aren't what cost games a lot of money. PC mods regularly have the best graphics in the entire indusry and people do them for free. I mean hell here is Metroid with cutting edge graphics right here. Just hire an artistic director and you're done. What costs games a lot of money are professionally done scores, cutscenes, massive overworlds, hundreds of hours of side content, etc. Yes, Metroid Prime was top-tier in the Gamecube days when it comes to presentation, but that was almost fifteen years ago. That is as relevant as saying Sonic the Hedgehog was a big budget game back in the early '90s, therefore a new entry in the 2D series would be a big budget entry today. Metroid Prime devolves from the classic Metroid formula of exploring a dungeon of multiple connected corridors. This may have been cutting edge in the early '90s but in the modern era, but in today's gaming world it is actually quite simple to execute, just take talent to polish it up to the level's Metroid.

Now I'm not saying making a 3D Metroid game on the NX would be cheap, but it would be more similar in terms of cost with say Star Fox Zero than it would be with The Division. In short a new Metroid on the NX would absolutely make money in this day in age.

EDIT - Metroid Prime on the Gamecube sold 2.84 million units.

You missed my point.

Right, Metroid Prime was a long time ago. And to achieve the same wow factor in a new Metroid today, it would cost them bank. BTW those Metroid sales are from 15 years as well. The first few years it was under 2 mil...I remember reading about it on IGN. And each one has sold worse.

At least Retro is still doing SOMETHING. If they were owned by Microsoft they probably would have went the way of Lionhead.

This week has been a Square Enix week for me.  I'm about halfway through Life is Strange, an engaging story with the cool PoP rewind mechanic.  It's certainly worth checking out.  

I've also returned to Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition for my action fix.  The game is still incredible. What about you adventurers?

robio said:

Bitches keep arguing about Metroid. Meanwhile some of us are waiting by our mailbox for the next issue of Nintendo Power to announce Startropics 3...

Let the dream die man, just let it go.

Dvader said:

Let the dream die man, just let it go.