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@BLD You don't know what you're talking about. Pikmin are small budget games compared to Metroid and Other M was a huge budget game (with very expensive cinematics made by a specialized studio), was massively printed for the US market and it flopped hard. That's why you could find it for less than $10 few time after the release.
And it has nothing to do with the quality of the game. The name Metroid does not sale and does not justify a big budget anymore. And honestly I think the Metroid fanbase totally deserve this for being so awful. Sakamoto should stick with the Rhythm Heaven games who are played by people who actually enjoy videogames.

@Yorumi Those are not good sales. Especially with the budget of the Prime games who had more than 100 people working on them. Come back when you'll know what you're talking about.

I really hope the stupid smear campain about this game won't stop the collaboration between Nintendo and Next Level Games. They're very talented developers but they're also the typical middle sized studio who tend to disappear with the crisis the videogame industry is knowing. Doubt they would survive without a big wallet backing them.

@Yorumi But "supply and demand" show people don't want Metroid games. That's why the vocal haters here look like whiny babbies.

@VanillaLake Don't be hypocritical you were implying it. And your statement was wrong anyway. If SF5 was released on WiiU it would have been bashed for being such a mediocre and casual game. SF4 skipped the Nintendo system too and got a metacritic score of 94 (20 more points than SF5) so you'll have to find another excuse than it's just Nintendo fanboys hating.

@pandarino Ok then stop praising mediocre games just because they're PS4 exclusives and you won't look like a blind fanboy.

@VanillaLake I own a PS4. Why are you accusing anyone who tell the smallest criticism about Sony to be a Nintendo fanboy? Do you think Sony is perfect or something? That would tell a lot about your comment.

@pandarino
Yeah sure Smash sold 10 million copies, SF5 sold 1 and you're trying to tell us SF5 is more populated. What is your interest in lying? Are you paid by Capcom, or Sony?

@huxxny Why can't people understand that in Intellectual property there's the word property. Do I need to remind you communism killed 100 million people?
Also Nintendo was nice enough to let the project being released. If it was Square-Enix or Sega it would have been shut down way before the release.

@pandarino
The target of 2 millions copies sold was for March. It still hasn't passed it accordng to Capcom:
http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/finance/million.html
Also Street Fighter 4 sold 3,4 millions copies and SF2 sold 5 millions so this SF5 is clearly a flop. It only did well at EVO because Capcom (or Sony) paid to impeach the SF4 tournament to happen to force the community to buy SF5 (glad it didn't work). So they deserve all the hate possible like Nintendo deserved the hate when they tried to impeach the Melee tournament.

The game itself is not good at all. No arcade atmosphere, big loadings, bad online, bad balancing and lack of depth (crush counter are way too powerful). I'm a big fan of Street Fighter but I regret spending 60 euros for this game and I'm not the only one since the user score for this game on Metacritic is 3.3. I tell to people if they want to play a fighting game with actual depth they should play Street Fighter 4 or Smash Bros on WiiU or 3DS.
The worst thing is SF5 has been so rushed and it flopped so badly we probably won't see another Capcom fighting game ever. It's really a shame. Sony shouldn't destroy strong japanese IP like that.

@zool But why would you want to play Nintendo games on other system since you hate Nintendo games? Hypocrisy much?

@MitchVogel Discs didn't save the Saturn. The problem wasn't cartridges, it was Sony buying a big part of the industry with their big wallet. FFVII could have been possible on the N64. It would have probably been a different game though, with full 3D environments instead of still images.

@BensonUii You can find very useful tutorial about each weapon on youtube. I suggest you this channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufsud-C09Yk

@BionicDodo No Alien's Crush and Devil's Crush? Big mistake.

@BensonUii You can try to play as a cat. Their gameplay is less complex than hunters.

@Uncensored Then you haven't played the games. TMS is much more lewd than any Persona. Persona 3, 4 or Q are very toned down Atlus games in both visuals and narration.

I'm amazed by the amount of undeserved hate this game got. I'm sure it would got a green metascore if it was released on Xbox One/PS4 considering the gameplay is quite close to Uncharted but faster. The main problem is it's a japanese game trying to offer an alternative on the shooters market. And western industry don't like that. Stay in your niche corner japanese industry and nothing bad will happen to you.

@Uncensored Atlus developers also deserve to be blamed. They made really questionable choices about this game and they had no chance to reach the western market. That's also the problem of Nintendo of Japan who let complete freedom to their developers without thinking about the western market.
You know if Persona games aren't censored it's because there's nothing to censor in those games. They're low risk commercial games for a wide audience since Persona 3.

Please bring it in Europe!

@Kmno I never assumed that and I own a Vita. But there's nothing on it that come close to games like Pokemon, Fire Emblem, Bravely Default or Shin Megami Tensei 4. The Vita library is mostly japanese shovelwares that are giving a terrible reputation to the japanese industry. Alos Sony is paying exclusivity for franchises like God Eater to let them die while they could doing great on the 3DS where the Monster Hunter games sell millions.

@Yasume And how many of these games are exclusives and will get a green Metascore? The Vita is getting the japanese shovelwares market because the 3DS is getting all the japanese games that matter. That's why the Vita is a failure.

@Yasume A large part of the Vita library are cheap phones games. Retail wise the 3DS crushed it. The Vita games are completely dead in USA and Europe. It's been years we haven't seen a Vita game in a NPD report. What is also impressive is the fact the WiiU sold 20 millions more games than the Vita, while being released one year later and without any third party support. That tells a lot about what the public think about the Vita library.

It's delusional to think that phenomenon will only hit the handhelds market. In Japan, smartphones aren't just replacing the handhelds market. It's also replacing the home consoles market. The home consoles market isn't as healthy as the medias are picturing. Lot of publishers are living a terrible gen with the PS4/XboxOne, especially the japanese publishers. It's getting harder and harder to convince people to spend $60 for a game when they can have access to dozens of games for few dollars. It's only hitting the handhelds market now because it's a younger audience. But when this audience will grow up it will be hard to convince them to spend $60 for one videogame. That's why Sony and Microsoft spend so much money on hardware and marketing. The console market is a money sinker at this point. Even the biggest publishers on consoles aren't confident about them:
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/there-may-be-no-consoles-in-the-future-ea-exec-say/1100-6439591/

It was really stupid from the western medias to bash Nintendo like they did with the 3DS and the WiiU. Nintendo always tried to bring new audience to the console market. Killing Nintendo is basically killing a source of people for the consoles market. And in the end it will backfire over the rest of the industry. It already backfired over the rest of the japanese industry.

@Gamer83 No. Starfox tanked because it's a rail shooter released in retail in 2016. Not because of gimmicks. We are living in an era of gimmicks. Most people these days play on their smartphones through a touchscreen or play on their PS4 with a touchpad and a big colored LED in the middle of the controller.
Starfox Zero was a commercial suicide since the begining because of its genre. They should have turned it into a TPS.

Would like Alien Soldier. Love this game. It has pure Platinum DNA with its parry system

@Dr_Lugae Yeah it's shipped. Capcom is probably playing with the words since shipped also means sold to retailers:

http://www.dualshockers.com/2016/05/09/street-fighter-v-ships-1-4-million-copies-on-ps4-and-pc-brings-series-total-to-38-million/

With the NPD, Mediacrate and Steam numbers we have there is no chance the game sold 1 million copies. And it's out of any charts, it's not even in the top 100 of the most played games on Steam at this moment. So I don't think it will have any leg.
It's not just a disaster for Street Fighter but also for Capcom and the whole fighting genre. You thought the SF3 era was a dark age for the genre? You've seen nothing with the one we're entering in.

Between 1991 and 1995 Street Fighter was the most popular franchise. Everybody was playing Street Fighter and it saved the career of the Super Nintendo. Now the franchise is a big mess. Street Fighter 5 tanked, it failed to create a market for the fighting game genre and all the key people for fighting games at Capcom are leaving the company. It's such a waste. I don't think we'll see another Capcom fighting game this gen. Except maybe on smartphones.

Monster Hunter is now the only franchise that keeps Capcom alive, until Resident Evil 7 but since RE6 failed to make money for Capcom we are sure of nothing. So I hope they'll manage it better than what they did with Street Fighter.

@Socar Strider already came back this gen. And it was very bland. Not surprising people forgot.

Kids here don't know what they are talking about. Devs don't care about power. They care about market and audience.

@Nin10doh First thing you need to do is picking a weapon easy for beginners and keeping it. The more you use a weapon the more you get used to it.

Will get it for Puyo Puyo and Powerdrift. Big fan of both and they have infinite replayability. Perfect for the 3DS.

@mariovslink62 MVC4 will happen when Capcom will save Street Fighter 5. So never. Don't expect any other Capcom fighting game this gen.

Sony closing Evolution, Microsoft closing Lionhead, Disney closing their AAA studio. The industry is clearly slimming down. At this rate I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo closed Retro studio or Camelot.

Nintendo have more important things to do than running after EA garbage. They need to save the japanese industry that is getting kicked out of the consoles market.

It's a good game but I prefer UN Squadron. Also Biometal is cool but very hard.

@Danrenfroe2016 I really want to stop playing my WiiU as a lot of angry people on the internet are telling me to. The problem is most of the best WiiU games don't have any better alternative on the other systems. So I have no choice. Sorry.

Not really surprising. Mobiles games are already a pillar of profit for most japanese publisher. A company like Square-Enix is only surviving thanks to mobile games since almost all their games this gen have badly performed.

@Peach64 The bad sales have nothing to do with the quality of the game. It's just releasing a rail shooter in 2016 in retail was suicidal. But now Nintendo has an audit I think this kind of incident will happen less often. They will listen more the marketers and the bookkeeper instead of letting the developers doing anything they want. It's not normal that most Nintendo games these days are hated even before their release. And it's mostly because that problem. The Iwata era is over and developers need to have creative limits like how other videogames companies are run. Making more games for critics and the market and less for themselves.

Europe please, please
Main SMT series is one of the last JRPG series for manly men because it doesn't do fanservice nonsense for highschool girls. I need my JRPG fix

@FragRed It's probably what's going to happen. If a small budget game like that can't make back its budget then how could a HD one? The Metroid series has never been profitable anyway and only survived because of passionate people.

Good news. Very fun game.

Disgusting watching people using the Alison Rapp case to attack Nintendo. She will have difficulties to find another representative job because of that.

That kind of crossover would have made sense 10 years ago but now it's too late. Capcom isn't really on the same scale of popularity as Nintendo. It's just Ono trying to save his job after the failure of Street Fighter 5.

This is a terrible news for the eventual localisation of SMT4 Final

@Socar Atlus isn't a very profitable studio. The main reason why they were bought by Sega recently is because Catherine made big losses for them. Another japanese studio that felt in the trap of AAA budget.

Crash is the Poochie of videogames. He has nothing to do in Smash.

@NinChocolate You have to keep in mind a huge part of the western industry want to get Nintendo out. Because Nintendo don't want to follow the AAA trend that already destroyed a big part of the japanese industry. They see Nintendo as a competitor who try to bring a part of the audience to something else than AAA, not a partner. Expect big smear campain whatever the NX will be.

@Mr_Zurkon It's a great series, maybe the best japanese series of all time, but I think there is a big lack of tutorial in the games to tell you how to play. There are a lot of things to know about the defensive gameplay and the games don't explain that at all. There is also a misunderstanding about what the game is. Lot of people think Monster Hunter are RPG when in fact they are pure action games based on skills and reflex. You can have the best stats in the game, if you haven't learnt how to use a weapon or how to deal with a monster you will be crushed. It's not about your character gaining experience it's about the player gaining experience.

And delusional idiots will keep saying the consoles industry isn't shrinking because AAA#154521 broke another record lol

@godslayer1975 The Vita is a joke and is destroying the reputation of the japanese industry. Please stop defending it.

@MadAussieBloke I love who everyone is going to pretend again this game isn't boring and repetitive now it's a PSVR exclusive. EA will never die with these kind of useful idiots.

Europe market is like 10 different countries with ten different boxes to make because each one has its own rating logo. It costs a lot of money for a small publisher who is not sure his game will be profitable.