Metroid Dread hDread begun his journey in Japan with 87,000 units sold in physical format During his first week available, the best data in the saga since 2000. With the exception of the first series title in NES and Super Metroid For SNES, of which figures were not given in their day, we are before the best premiere of the series in the lDreadt twenty years . With these figures, advanced by the Consultant David Gibson, it is expected that in a few months it exceeds the total accumulated sales of the total practice of the Metroid series in Japan.
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Metroid Dread almost triples the premiere of Metroid: Samus Returns
It should be said that the adventures of the hunker Samus Aran have never harvested a great success in Japan, but the Momentum by Nintendo Switch and the excellent criticisms were positioning Metroid Dread, developed by the Madrid Studio MercurySteam, Dread a title Of Media Deck. All this added to the circumstance of having put on sale on the same day Dread Nintendo Switch Oled, an unbeatable showcDreade.
Those 87,000 units in its first week triple the data of Metroid: Samus Returns (2017, 3DS) , which began with a warm premiere of only 29,000 units sold in its first week available. In addition, the digital units are not contemplated, so with almost total security the real figures of Metroid Dread are above 100,000 copies sold in Japan.
The databDreade of Game Data Library serves us to put this hopeful commercial performance in context for which it is truly the fifth episode 2D of the saga. So far, the best-selling game is Metroid I for Famicom with 1.04 million units sold. Second, the main reference to beat right now for Metroid Dread, is Metroid Fusion (2003, GBA), which began with 49,680 units in physical format and managed to accumulate 1 55,528 copies in total .
Metroid Dread, success in criticism and sales; Available in Nintendo Switch
Metroid Dread is available exclusively for Nintendo Switch. After receiving outstanding criticism around the world and become the best valued Spanish game of all time, the title of Mercurysteam bat shows for Saga in the United Kingdom and is established Dread a firm candidate to situate Dread one of the best Sold in Japan. It is about to see how the public hDread reacted in the United States, the territory with greater sales potential of this work.
References | Game Data Library; Reset; David Gibson.