Being a collector of special editions has its ups and downs, like when you're faced with fighting scalpers over limited special editions. But that's exactly what's going on with a certain Metroid Dread special edition and it stinks.
VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Last week Nintendo held this year's surprisingly packed not-E3 Direct; with a full schedule for this year and a vague promise of a console successor next year, it's very possible that we've now seen our final Nintendo Switch Direct, or at least one with major first party reveals. That makes this a good time to sit back and reflect on a generation of Direct moments, from the shocking and surprising, to the joyous and exhilarating - and, quite often, all at once."
Big Switch hits holiday sale now live for the end of 2023 including lowest price ever for Nintendo Switch Sports, Metroid Dread, and more.
Enric Álvarez, the CEO of Metroid Dread developer MercurySteam, has revealed that the title has now sold over three million copies worldwide.
It’s good to see Metroid do well. Hopefully we hear something soon about Metroid Prime 4
Wait up, 3 million worldwide out of a possible 120 million is considered good for a legendary franchise like metroid?
Metroid has never sold super well. Lots of people under under the mistaken impression that, because franchises like Mario Kart, Smash Bros., 3D Mario games, more recent Zelda games, and Animal Crossing sell huge numbers, that all Nintendo franchises sell at that level, and that they always have.
This is pretty good for a Metroid. Dread will probably end up being the best-selling game in the franchise, if it isn't already.
Metroid Prime was said to have sold 2.8 million copies, so Dread is likely the best selling game in the series.
Damn scalpers
Yay! Crappy people win again. /S
I was lucky enough to get an order of the special edition from Target and amiibos from Best Buy...
I didn't even hear that they went on sale here in Canada, i was at work and they were all sold out by the time i got off the same day it was announced, i fluked out when someone posted a link to Amazon Japan on twitter which had them the next day. Regardless it'd be nice if companies in general prioritized long time account holders/subscribers with a limited amount and did raffles like shoe companies do so the average person has a better chance, you can't compete with these bots.
It's time to stop online preorders, make these things I'm store only! It's become an unnecessary problem and I'm the end it's not getting into the hands of the people who actually want these things.