Lego games are mainly for kids & Nintendo is the most kid friendly console so of course it would make sense for them to advertise it to Nintendo players
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Metroid Prime is an FPS and FPS are for "adults", and Bayonetta has gore/sexualization so Nintendo should release both on PS and PC, right?
Bayonetta 1 is on PlayStation and PC, i swear the fanboys on this forum like u are insufferable weirdos
They already said three months ago that it wasn't coming in 2024 and that they weren't going to talk about it until they sell you Switch shit for Christmas.
Anyways, I am ready for Metroid, its the only thing that could salvage what is otherwise going to be a very shitty, threadbare, year for Nintendo owners.
If Nintendo were smart they would save Prime 4 for Switch 2 launch, then launch 3D Mario in the Fall of 2025. 3D Mario is the only title outside of COD, that can release in the Fall and survive GTA 6. IMO.
Metroid is a niche game, it never sells above five million copies, a terrible choice for the Switch 2 launch, which will want to target a broad audience. They've got a number of teams working on things, with the "delay" to 2025 they should, if anything, actually have titles starting to back up. 3D Mario, Mario Kart, Animal Crossing or Splatoon, the next B-N Studio 2 game, the next NLG game, a Kirby title if we don't get that this year, Fire Emblem if it doesn't come out this year, whatever the mysterious third Monolith Software team is working on and then some more minor stuff that I can't remember off the top of my head.
2D Metroid is niche. But 3D Metroid could be big. Remember Zelda was never a huge selling franchise either before BOTW. A lot of Nintendo franchises during the Switch Gen became bigger than ever.
Zelda was a "declining franchise", not a niche one. It routinely topped Nintendo's sales charts back in the day. The 90s games usually sold between 3 and 6 million in an era where breaking 1 million meant you were one of the biggest games of the year and while sales never grew beyond that, as they did for other game series, that still was enough to comfortably put it ahead of Metroid. Metroid's biggest success so far was Dread managing to break 3 million copies, which would put it below every single single-player home console Zelda release.
Also, while I am hype for Prime 4, there's really no indication that its going to be a game-changing, genre-defining game like BotW was. Its probably just going to be a very well done, atmospheric shooter in a semi-open world, like the other 3 were.
