UK Charts: Metroid Prime Remastered Gets A Welcome Boost As Zelda Retains Its Crown

Without doubt the game of the year goes to …

Metroid Prime Remastered!!

Its amazing that with Metroid Nintendo will for some reason do a quick price drop and give an actual deal on a game.

Master Detective Archives disappeared from the top 40 altogether 😑

Well-deserved. Metroid Prime Remastered and Tears of the Kingdom are the main games I'm playing on Switch at the moment. Picked up Metroid Prime in April, but didn't get around to starting it until a few weeks ago. Not very far as Tears of the Kingdom is getting the bulk of my gaming time, but enjoying it so far. Not many consoles get two all-time classics in the same year.

Metroid Prime Echoes Remastered, when?

TotK is such a beast, almost two months old and it's been #1 most weeks.

Also nice to see Metroid in the top 15. TotK and Metroid are easily my two favorite games this year.

Metroid Prime Remastered is both a masterpiece of game design, and a masterpiece of a remaster.

Another great week for Zelda, which is probably going to stay there for a while until there's some serious competition. Imagine if it had an online sharing mode even just for Zonai builds, would make the game sell even more! On another note, I'm a little surprised Elden Ring is no longer among the top 40 considering it was super dominant last year.

I wonder if Master Detective Archives disappeared because people aren’t able to even buy a copy. In the U.S., that game is sold out and unavailable at practically every retailer. Only the collector’s edition that comes out 7/14 is available.

Metroid Dread is a much better game than Metroid Prime. It deserves better sales.

@smithyo Nintendo is trying to build an audience for Metroid for future big releases. Something they don't need to do for Zelda or Mario games.

@SwagaliciousJohnson If the rumors are to be believed, the Prime sequels were going to be basic emulated ports. I wonder if the success of Prime Remastered made them rethink this. I know I would be happy to wait for a more complete remaster, like Prime was. It would be disappointing to see the sequels treated in a lesser way.

Of course, that means a significantly longer wait.

Starting to think I should drop the backlog for tears of the kingdom already.

Great to see so many Switch games there, and most have climbed this week.

@smithyo Retailers did these price promotions, not Nintendo.

For me personally, as a gamer who plays on all three consoles, Tears of the Kingdom is the greatest game ever made. Long may it reign at the top of the charts!

Also, I’d love to know how many units it’s sold worldwide. Though we may have to wait a while to get those figures.

@The_Pixel_King Nintendo have their investor meeting in early August so we'll find out its sales up until the end of June then.

@glaemay

Strongly disagree. Dread was fun, but Prime takes gold. Music, beams, suits, visors (dread obviously had none) and locations are all better in Prime.

Dread was fun but had forgettable locations, Emmie's were repetitive, music wasn't anything to write home about

@glaemay i love dread but prime is far superior and epic in every way.

I hope if Iron Galaxy is making Metroid Prime 2 and 3 remasters that they put the same amount of efforts to those just like they did Metroid Prime Remastered. I'm glad Nintendo is taking these baby steps in remastering all three games rather than lazily porting them as upscale HD ports for current gen.

@glaemay Metroid Dread was far to linear and Held your hand way too much.
Other 2D metroidvanias like Hollow Knight and Ori have upped the benchmark significantly in the genre and Dread felt that it coasted along rather than add any innovations - especially given the vast price difference between Dread and pretty much every other modern title in the genre.

@Chaotic_Neutral Exactly this

No Everybody 1-2 Switch? Or does it have a different release date in the UK?