Nintendo games. Despite being released on August 27, Corruption was the fifth best-selling game of the month, with 218,100 copies sold. It also debuted at the fifth spot of the Japanese charts, with 34,000 units in the first week of release. More than one million copies of the game were sold in 2007, and as of March 2008, 1.31 million copies of the game were sold worldwide. Sequels A spin-off, Metroid Prime: Federation Force, was developed by Next Level Games and released for the Nintendo 3DS in 2016. In 2015, Metroid Prime series producer Kensuke Tanabe said that they were doing a story on the Galactic Federation. Regarding Corruptions ending, Tanabe wanted to create a story that centers on Samus and Sylux, noting that "there's something going on between them. I want to make a game that touches upon it". Tanabe added that Nintendo had no plans on releasing the next Metroid Prime game for the Wii U at the time, and that a new installment would most likely be developed for the company's next home console, then known as the NX. A fourth mainline installment, Metroid Prime 4, was announced during the Nintendo Spotlight presentation at E3 2017, in development for the Nintendo Switch. The game was headed by series producer Kensuke Tanabe. The development was originally led by Bandai Namco Studios in Singapore, which included some staff members who worked on the cancelled Star Wars 1313 game. In January 2019, development of Prime 4 was restarted, with Retro Studios returning to develop the game. References External links Official Metroid series website Metroid Prime 3: Corruption profile at Nintendo.com Official Retro Studios website 2007 video games Experimental medical treatments in fiction First-person shooters First-person adventure games Metroid Prime Fiction about mind control Retro Studios games Single-player video games Interquel video games Video game sequels Video games developed in the United States Video games featuring female protagonists Video games scored by Kenji Yamamoto (composer, born 1964) Video games set in outer space Video games set on fictional planets Wii games Wii-only games Metroidvania games Metroid games Video games produced by Kensuke Tanabe Voice acting