Knocks off Prime to claim the bounty.
Following on from the February news that Metroid Dread had sold 2.74 million units from its October launch to the end of 2021 — a figure which put it behind only GameCube’s Metroid Prime in the series’ best-seller list — Nintendo’s end of year financial results have confirmed that MercurySteam’s 2D entry is now the best-selling Metroid game ever.
The life-to-date sales of ‘Metroid 5’ now stand at 2.9 million according to Nintendo’s report, putting it approximately 600,000 copies ahead of 2002’s Metroid Prime, as per estimates gathered from Nintendo’s own data. It was previously known that Dread was the best-selling Metroid entry in the UK, but this new reported figure puts it top of the list worldwide.
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