Sales Metroid Dread biggest launch in franchise history in the UK, fifth biggest Switch launch of the year

[Phantom Thief]

Off to a good start, especially since I assume digital sales are fairly significant. Hopefully this trend is reflected around the world!

 

[Slash]

And it begins. Can’t wait to see NPD next month.

 

[Deleted user]

Off to a good start, especially since I assume digital sales are fairly significant. Hopefully this trend is reflected around the world!

And that's right before Christmas.

 

[KC Hazel]

Nice. Hoping the news is similar to this across the board.

 

[AquaWateria]

Good start for a Metroid game.

Legs will be interesting to see because sales are usually frontloaded for this series.

 

[MRC-OSF]

oh boy, it begins

 

[carlosfilho]

 

[Abzeronow]

Nice looking forward to the Media Create and PAL charts on Install Base and NPD later on. Looks like Metroid is benefiting from the Switch Effect.

 

[kimbo99]

This can only bode well for the game. Samus deserved this

 

[Comic Obsessed]

And that's in the UK.

The rest of the world is bound to be much better.

 

[mkensei]

Hope this is repeated elsewhere. It’d be nice for Metroid to be a once or twice a gen franchise rather than once a decade.

 

[storres]

Awesome!

 

[RavensShade]

Trying to take it slow, but, I'm seriously addicted to this game.

 

[Skittzo]

Bodes quite well for the game.

 

[MetalLord]

Metroid already have 2 games in dev, so ti dont matter too much for the franchise overall but this could mean a metroid 6 on switch

 

[Brock Reiher]

Glad to see that all that Kotaku nonsense didn't end up hurting the game long term.

 

[kimbo99]

Trying to take it slow, but, I'm seriously addicted to this game.

Same here. Only things dragging me away from the game are sleep, hunger, work and babysitting my niece. Other than that, I'm sneaking away to play in handheld or on the big screen whenever I can.

 

[kimbo99]

Fifa trending that high on the Eshop charts just pissed me off. Nothing more than a cash grab

 

[Sadist]

Yay for Samus. We need more Metroid in our lives.

If Nintendo can revive Fire Emblem, surely Metroid can pull it off as well?

 

[Brewster123]

Looking forward to hearing more good news.

 

[Deleted user]

Dread is #1 on Switch everywhere.

 

[NiXiE]

Great news! Can´t wait to see NPD and Famitsu numbers.

 

[Grunge Hamster]

Let's go!!!

 

[Dark Cloud]

I wonder if it’ll be the best selling Metroid game of all time /s

 

[Mr_No_U]

Looking good!

 

[Dark Cloud]

Yay for Samus. We need more Metroid in our lives.

If Nintendo can revive Fire Emblem, surely Metroid can pull it off as well?

Metroid wasn’t dead though? Fire Emblem was on its last leg. Metroid would continue forever.

 

[NarohDethan]

Mexico with the good taste @asagami_

 

[9-Volt]

Does this mean anything, though? Almost every first party game enter the eShop charts at number one. Every single release did this year, Mario Party, Pokémon BDSP and Advance Wars will follow.

 

[Dark Cloud]

Does this mean anything, though? Almost every first party game enter the eShop charts at number one. Every single release did this year, Mario Party, Pokémon BDSP and Advance Wars will follow.

Advance Wars (holds in laughter)

 

[9-Volt]

Advance Wars (holds in laughter)

Hey, if a 2D Metroid did such thing, anything is possible. You'll see.

 

[MisterSpo]

Yep, a strong start was very, very likely for Dread. Let's hope it does well in Japan, too, and that it has strong legs.

The fact that Dread's success has also bumped FIFA out the way makes good news all the sweeter.

 

[Pascal]

Warms my heart to see Metroid doing so well. Hopefully this leads to more frequent entries in the series.

 

[Twinsen]

So happy. Metroid is gonna stand tall next to mario and zelda, the way it always should have been. What a franchise <3

 

[AngryAlchemist]

I'm glad it's doing well, but at the same time I can't say that this news gives us that much of a clearer picture in my opinion. Depending on how close it is to Snap, this is either pretty good or flatout great.

Having a Monster Hunter, Mario, and Zelda game in the same year was always going to make Metroids performance look comparatively small, and with Pokemon coming out soon it will be 6th. So it's just a question of, how close it is to Snap in my opinion, for the real celebration to begin.

 

[asagami_]

Mexico with the good taste @asagami_

Hey happy see you here! (I didn't get notified btw lol) It's selling good at Amazon too, tho got my copy at Gameplanet this Friday. I have the feeling here at México we favor a lot physical copies, so seeing Dread at number #1 at the eShop is fantastic.

 

[NarohDethan]

Hey happy see you here! (I didn't get notified btw lol) It's selling good at Amazon too, tho got my copy at Gameplanet this Friday. I have the feeling here at México we favor a lot physical copies, so seeing Dread at number #1 at the eShop is fantastic.

I got it for 500 pesos on Liverpool, turned out I had monedero electronico with some balance. I wanted the Special Edition but that seems sold out everywhere.

 

[Ferru]

That's great for metroid. It seems like a good start.

 

[Jaded Alyx]

Glad to see that all that Kotaku nonsense didn't end up hurting the game long term.

Not that I expect it to, but isn't that way too early to say? It's a few days - there's nothing long term about that.

 

[HK-47]

Not that I expect it to, but isn't that way too early to say? It's a few days - there's nothing long term about that.

Everyone was waiting to buy their gaming pc on Kotaku’s say so.

 

[TheGreatLugia]

Seems like a good sign. Hopefully the good news continues elsewhere.

 

[sanstea]

Hopefully it will reach the 3 million milestone.

 

[Stu Benedict]

fear it, run from it, dread arrives all the same

 

[z1ggy]

Fingers crossed for Dread to be the most succesfull Metroid game to date

 

[Niraj]

Great news. It's a really fantastic game and deserves to sell really well.

 

[A. G. Cook]

Can't wait to see US numbers, seeing a lot of positive talk among people who normally don't play Metroid or even know the series outside of Smash.

 

[Phendrift]

I want it to beat SSHD. Let’s fucking go.

 

[WestEgg]

I want it to beat SSHD. Let’s fucking go.

I’m a fan of Skyward Sword and would love to see this too. Having said that, that’s going to be a high target, I think SSHD has a shot of overtaking Twilight Princess for 2nd best selling Zelda.

 

[DecoReturns]

*see post about wanting Dread to outsell Skyward Sword*


I bought Skyward Sword over Metroid Dread this weekend

 

[Waluijob]

 

[storres]

Skyward Sword, Pokemon Snap, and Smash are all sold out on Amazon US. They went on sale and people went crazy.