Metroid: Other M Sales Goal Revealed

Jesus Christ you guys buy this game (when it comes out in over a year that is)

I would have prefered another classic 2D Metroid on DS similar to Fusion and Zero Mission.

This should be good though, if handled correctly. It needs to be like the classics and prime i.e non-linear with power-ups and a huge map. Hopefully it\'s not a linear side-scroller.

( Edited 11.06.2009 17:29 by wAyNe - sTaRT )

Not sure if they will reach this target. Need more games to get the percentage of veteran gamers up. Its doable though. With games like red steel 2 (providing people forget the first) FF, motion plus itself. People who joked it was waggle might buy into it again.

I read in a lot of forums that guys sell their wii but will buy another if a game comes out they like. I find this a bizarre way to live.

The problem I see is that the Metroid brand is dead and buried in Japan. Even Metroid Prime 3 on Wii, which sold quite well compared to 1 and 2, didn't manage to break even 100,000 sales...a far cry from Super Metroid's lofty sales there.

jesusraz said:
The problem I see is that the Metroid brand is dead and buried in Japan. Even Metroid Prime 3 on Wii, which sold quite well compared to 1 and 2, didn't manage to break even 100,000 sales...a far cry from Super Metroid's lofty sales there.

I thought Prime was the breakout game (in acclaim, not sales).

I'm still leery with Other M though, it looks more like a fighter/brawler than a Metroid title.

PMD said:
I thought Prime was the breakout game (in acclaim, not sales).

I'm still leery with Other M though, it looks more like a fighter/brawler than a Metroid title.

I think most of those close ranged/grapple moves were situational depending on how close the opponent is to Samus. They may have focused on those in the trailer to present what Team Ninja has added to the series.

Think Kingdom Hearts II. Certain situations in battle will allow for QTE or something, dealing extra massive damage to the boss.

Other than that it looks like a 2D Metroid but in 3D.

Metroid Prime series didn't do well in Japan simply because they were an FPS series.

Yeah, I think they will find this game is -less- attractive to the West, not more. But it might be visa-versa in Japan.
I sure know I'm a bit "errr..." about it. I like atmospheric exploration and puzzles, not non-stop blasting.

Not sure if they will reach this target. Need more games to get the percentage of veteran gamers up.

Do we though?
Because those statistics recently actualy showed Wii owners had been playing games longer then PS3 owners. It seems more a case the Wii is full of owners coming back to gameing rather then the "new gamer" message nintendo seems to be sending.
Some of those older gamers might well have played older Metroids.
Metroid Trillogy could do supprisingly well.

I'm hoping the trailer was devised to just highlight the action sequences - it does look like a blast, but does need a lot of the exploration/ambience from the past Metroid games! SM especially.

jb said:
I'm hoping the trailer was devised to just highlight the action sequences - it does look like a blast, but does need a lot of the exploration/ambience from the past Metroid games! SM especially.

Yeah I think the trailer just focused on what Team Ninja added to the series. Now that I think about it I don't think I've seen a Metroid trailer that showed the exploration of the game. That sounds rather hard to show in a 1-2 minute advert. I mean what exactly do you show to convey to the audience that there's some exploration in the game?