
It didn’t deliver – not the business results, it really didn’t touch the player the way we hoped it would. I really thought that was going to be a killer moment in the franchise’s history, and it wasn’t.

It was giving much more of a perspective about Samus. “I really thought that that was going to be a defining moment for the Metroid franchise. He gave them his opinion and said that that it simply took too long to get into Metroid: Other M in a meaningful way and it simply wasn’t structured well. Reggie said that he explained why the game didn’t reach expectations on the business side of things in a meeting with both Satoru Iwata and Shigeru Miyamoto.

He said he was left disappointed by sales of the game which didn’t resonate with players and didn’t sell as many copies as Nintendo was expecting. Reggie singled out Metroid: Other M as the game which he thought would be a “defining” moment for the long-running series. Former Nintendo of America president, Reggie Fils-Aimé, has spoken on the Kinda Funny Games Gamescast about the Nintendo games which didn’t hit the mass market as he expected.
