Amid Fan Concerns About Metroid Prime 4's Sales, Nintendo Provides Some Clarity

Nintendo's most recent earnings report delivered a routine update to its list of games that have sold at least one million copies by the end of 2025. A conspicuous absence was Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, which led to hand-wringing among fans of the series. However, the game has now reached that sales milestone, but only when combining its performance across Switch and Switch 2.

That's according to reporter Stephen Totilo, sharing the tidbit in an X post and citing a Nintendo representative. It's unclear if Metroid Prime 4, which released on December 4, reached that figure by December 31 (as with other games in the earnings report) or if that includes sales through January.

It might be somewhat comforting news for Metroid diehards, many of whom were spelling doom and gloom for the Prime subseries and the Metroid IP as a whole. As a point of comparison, the Switch 2 Edition of Pokemon Legends: Z-A reached 3.89 million units sold, making it to Nintendo's top-selling Switch 2 software list. At the same time, the version on the original Switch hit 8.41 million units, totalling 12.3 copies.