In 2004, we received Metroid: Zero Mission, a remake of the NES original. What followed was a period of quick releaes for Metroid. The achievement is notable as the game was launched on the Nintendo GameCube, which sold very poorly in the UK. Metroid Prime received significant praise and was heavily marketed, and it is still the best-selling Metroid game in UK chart history (in terms of units). But it was the arrival of Metroid Prime in 2003 that the franchise had its biggest moment to-date. This was a significant improvement for the IP, performing significantly above its predecessors and it remains the best-selling 2D Metroid game. We next saw the series with Metroid Fusion on the Gameboy Advance in 2002. Neither the N64 nor the Gameboy Color saw anything of Samus during their reign at the end of the 1990s.
What followed was a huge gap for the series. In just a few days, Metroid Dread is already the sixth highest-grossing Metroid game, and that's without digital data Metroid 2 on the Nintendo Gameboy, released back in 1992, failed to reach the charts at launch, although it is currently the seventh best-selling Metroid game so far.Īlthough widely recognised as one of the finest games ever made, 1994's Super Metroid on the SNES also got off to a very slow start in the UK, and remains the fourth worst-selling game in the series to-date. The early years of Metroid in the UK was slow. To put that into context, that's considerably less than Animal Crossing: New Horizons sold in a year. In the UK, across 15 Metroid games (the first Metroid game launched in a time before charts, so we don't have that information), the series has sold just over 600,000 units. Yet it's never been a commercial powerhouse. It's a franchise that commands huge respect, to the extent that is even had an entire genre name after it - Metroidvania. Metroid is one of the most influential video game series in the world. decided to take a trip down memory lane with GfK Entertainment, to remind ourselves of the franchise's high points (and low points). Metroid Dread arrived last week, the sequel to a game that launched almost 18 years ago.
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