Nintendo has recently updated its sales numbers for the company’s best-selling Wii U and 3DS titles. Not surprisingly, New Super Mario Bros. U and Pokemon X and Y are leading the pack.
If you were a 90s kid excited about Nintendo’s upcoming N64 console, you likely read something somewhere about the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive, also known as the 64DD or DD64.
Other nominees include games like SimCity & Tony Hawk's Pro Skater.
There are some good nominees in this list that are deserving to be inducted also, but I feel Metroid has had the most impact on the industry out of all of these. Look how Metroid influenced the evolution of the Castlevania games, and the "Metroidvania" subgenre of games have become a prevailing force in gaming today. Especially now, Metroidvanias are bigger than ever.
I can very much see Resident Evil being added later too, bc it really did popularize and define the survival horror genre. I would say that one is next in line.
If any Metroid game should get the honor it should be Super Metroid , it's perfection in my eyes . 30 years later and I still feel it's the most epic shit ever .
The GBA remake deserves it or Super Metroid, the original was a very sloppy and rushed game programmed in 3 months and it shows.
If you've never played the remake, it's absolutely a must play, fixes basically every flaw in the game. Check out ExoParadigmGamer's comparison video.
“Before even Kirby was born, HAL Laboratory released the super-cute puzzler Adventures of Lolo in 1989 and it has held up beautifully.” - A.J. Maciejewski from Video Chums.
And I have seen people saying that NSMBU hasn't helped the Wii U at all, but the fact is that it's sold 4 million copies for a console with a install base of 6 million.
That's a stupidly crazy high attach rate. 66% of Wii U owners have this game. I suspect the Wii U would've sold even worse than it did if it didn't have Mario Bros U at launch to back it up.
Seeing how the Wii U is lacking on third party support (outside of indie devs, that is), Nintendo needs to step their game production up to compensate. Easier said than done, definitely, but Nintendo can do it.
I hope they have a couple nice surprises for us at E3.
Nintendo needs a little bit more edge in their games, and revamp that awful-snooze fest music they've been using since n64. I really expected Nin to do better than 3d on 2d backdrop, wish they had an option to stay 2d
There are almoust no good 3rd parties on the console, that's why these games sold that "well". People bought the console with some expactations. My expactations have not been fulfilled thanks to Nintendo's awfull attitude.