Topic: Are we being primed?

Is it really so wrong that someone wants a product that was given an artificially limited run? I think such an argument is absurd. We might as well demand corporate tyranny.

However, in this case I don't think the limited run was completely artificial. There were a number of challenges in selling the collection:
1) Metroid Prime 3: Corruption was being sold for $50 by itself. They could not sell the game for less than that and were basically forced to sell the game for $60 to $80, which isn't a competitive price.
2) Wii Play Control games didn't sell well here and proved to be difficult to market. Many people considered the Game Cube controls in Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes superior.
3) Metroid Prime: Trilogy struggled to sell well. In its four month run, it sold less than half a million copies.
4) In reviews, some critics said the older titles hadn't aged well.
5) The original games could all be played on the Wii.
6) The Wii wasn't much more powerful than the Game Cube. The remastered Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes didn't really look that improved as a result, and looked very bad graphically next to contemporary shooters on competing platforms.

Ultimately, Nintendo probably decided against a variety of factors that made producing the game difficult to justify. It's not like they'ed artificially hold something back that a lot of people would buy. It costs money to print and distribute games, and it's important for companies to prioritize objectives given their limited resources. Digital distribution solves some of that problem, which I guess is one reason we're getting the title now.

I agree that Retro could be developing a Metroid game, but I would be very surprised if Nintendo made an announcement like that before E3.

As far as I'm aware the Prime Trilogy was sold for an MSRP of $50.

you have to accept the fact that I will never accept this. I will SEEK what is right.

I've got the Gamestop reprint version. I bought it for 50 bucks about 2 years ago, and that was an AMAZING deal. I'd rather have it physically anyway. I only buy digital games if those games are ONLY available digitally. (Like Shovel Knight.)

I remember seeing the Prime Trilogy sitting on store shelves for years and I didn't grab it. Purely because I had 3 and they kept the price up around $90 for the whole time. Well up into the first year of the Wii U's life. Last time I saw it on the shelves they had discounted it to $40 but by that point I was well into the Wii U. So it was a "Metroid Prime Trilogy for $40 or Wind Waker HD for $70" sort of dealeo.... was probably picked up by a scalper....

So the idea that this game was a "limited" run I think is kinda off the mark. There weren't many of them but they weren't exactly flying off the shelves. If you were a Wii gamer and wanted to pick one up then you could have. More to the point if you have a Wii U now then you're getting it for less than it has ever been.

The Trilogy came out, but I already had all three games, so I never picked it up. Along the way, I lost Echoes, and now that they are releasing it on Wii U eShop tomorrow, I'm super excited.

I think Corruption was a great game, almost as good as Prime, with better controls. Prime was the best or second best game on GameCube, depending on what mood I'm in.

Echoes ... I didn't like it, and so I didn't finish it, but then again, I didn't like Twilight Princess the first three times I played it, so I'm very willing to give it a second try.

I'm very hopeful of a 3D, first person/third person full-fledged action/adventure Metroid game, in the style of Prime. Like people have said, they can keep or do away with the Prime monicker, as long as the game is awesome.

I got it on release after getting and finishing Prime 3 - no it wasn't hard to find at release at all - traded it in without much of a loss a few months later because the back-tracking turned me off a bit, but I can't pass it up for nine bucks as a download.

Amazing how much the download release has depressed the price of the physical disc on eBay. Guess having most of the Wii U owners online is making a big impact. Hopefully we'll see more hard-to-find titles as downloads!

I hope we are indeed being Primed. I actually didn't mind Other M too much but can't wait to see what Retro can do on Wii U. I really hope they have some good ideas for the GamePad.