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Hey Jude
Yesterday
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Here Comes the Sun

Toy Story
Monsters, Inc
Finding Nemo
WALL-E

These sales figures are hardly surprising. FF's a series for Millennials which is hardly a growth market and even within this group, FF's been more or less dead in Japan.

Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon
Zelda's Adventure
Link: The Faces of Evil
Hotel Mario

LightningStrikes posted...

Let me tell you about a little system called the 3DS.

It's now also on Switch Online too, but that doesn't mean Gen Alpha will grow up loving OoT.

There must be a lot of old people voting for OoT for win. Doubt many Gen Z even know what the game is.

Braid
Papers, Please
What Remains of Edith Finch
The Witness

Donkey Kong
Super Mario Bros
Super Mario Kart
Super Mario 64

OoT is probably closer to Citizen Kane, at least in terms of topping GOAT polls and reception. I honestly feel like I've seen Super Metroid more than Metroid Prime in those context.

MacArrowny posted...

6 years is not counting the reboot. It's 8+ with that.

6 years is also what BotW took.

Sure, but that doesn't mean much, since we don't know Nintendo's internal projections for budgets and sales for those games and whether MP4 went through further development issues.

MacArrowny posted...

Would Nintendo spend 6 years making a new FE with a massive budget? That's what MP4 is.

I highly doubt Nintendo planned for MP4 to go through the development hell that it did. I mean Skull and Bones is supposedly a "AAAA" game that took a decade of development but yet I don't know if Ubisoft is internally projecting it to be going to be one of the most successful games ever made.

LightningStrikes posted...

You could basically make all of the arguments youre making against Metroid against Zelda before the Switch. The key difference being that Metroid just had its best selling game ever! I think for a Metroid game Prime 4 will be huge. It would also benefit a lot from being an early or launch Switch 2 game.

Metroid's always been much more niche than pre-BotW Zelda. OoT and TP were both around the 8 million mark, which is significantly better than anything Metroid's done. Metroid Dread did as well as it did because it took advantage of the massive Switch install base but even then it wasn't able to outsell something like FE3H and nobody would think Nintendo would pull a BotW style launch with FE.