From its launch in October to the end of December, Metroid Dread sold 2.74 million units, which isn’t eye-popping at a glance.
Let’s start by looking at some of the brand new numbers related to Metroid Dread. It’s sometimes hard to find exact comparisons, but I paired different games on Switch to past releases on Wii U, 3DS, or Wii to get an idea of how big the sales increase on Switch really was. That got me thinking: how do we term success and failure in an age where seemingly every Nintendo game on Switch has an expected sales bump just by virtue of being on a thriving platform with a hungry audience? So I crunched numbers and compared the sales of Switch games to their predecessors to find out what exactly the consistent sales increase was. We also found out that Metroid Dread is just shy of 3 million units sold, making it a lock to be the best-selling Metroid game of all time. With Nintendo’s most recent earnings release, we had an increasingly inevitable confirmation: The Nintendo Switch has passed 100 million consoles sold, reaching the metric faster than the extremely successful Wii and also surpassing the total numbers of Wiis sold as well. It appeals to everyone and is limited only by its dated specs and janky online. The Switch just managed to hit the perfect sweet spot between approachable and deep as well as casual and hardcore. Why is it so popular? A big reason is the games, but Nintendo has generally always had the games. Nintendo Switch has the momentum of the runaway freight train.
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