Nintendo’s most up-to-date earnings report delivered a routine replace to its listing of video games which have bought at the very least a million copies by the top of 2025. A conspicuous absence was Metroid Prime 4: Past, which led to hand-wringing amongst followers of the sequence. Nonetheless, the sport has now reached that gross sales milestone, however solely when combining its efficiency throughout Change and Change 2.
That is in line with reporter Stephen Totilo, sharing the tidbit in an X post and citing a Nintendo consultant. It is unclear if Metroid Prime 4, which launched on December 4, reached that determine by December 31 (as with different video games within the earnings report) or if that features gross sales via January.
Following some consternation about neither the Change nor Change 2 variations of Metroid Prime 4 (Dec. 4) making Nintendo’s million-seller listing for the interval ending Dec 31, a Nintendo rep instructed to me immediately that mixed gross sales of these 2 variations have in actual fact handed 1,000,000 copies pic.twitter.com/moCzzpb1bd
— Stephen Totilo (@stephentotilo) February 4, 2026
It may be considerably comforting information for Metroid diehards, lots of whom had been spelling doom and gloom for the Prime subseries and the Metroid IP as a complete. As some extent of comparability, the Change 2 Version of Pokemon Legends: Z-A reached 3.89 million items bought, making it to Nintendo’s top-selling Switch 2 software list. On the similar time, the model on the unique Change hit 8.41 million items, totalling 12.3 copies.
Whereas reaching the 1 million determine is spectacular for many video games, evaluating the gross sales numbers of Prime 4 to different Nintendo software program is a salient reminder that Metroid has traditionally underperformed subsequent to different IPs. Pokemon, Metroid isn’t. It is unsure if Prime 4’s gross sales efficiency was consistent with Nintendo’s expectations, however its omission from the corporate’s earnings report stood out.
These numbers got here out of Nintendo’s newest quarterly earnings report, which included the stunning element that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe remains to be promoting like gangbusters. Regardless of some spectacular outcomes, Nintendo’s inventory declined after the report. The corporate is gearing up for a Nintendo Direct for Thursday, which is able to showcase video games from the corporate’s companions.