(5)Metroid Prime vs (12)The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind 2015

Ulti's Analysis
The Elder Scrolls series did not have a good contest outside of Skyrim. Both Oblivion and Morrowind lost in round 1, and the former was expected to make a big run had it gotten out of the first match.

That being said, they do have some respectable strength here, and even in a round 1 loss Morrowind showed that Metroid Prime had a serious weakness that its younger brother would take advantage of later. In the beginning of this poll, Metroid Prime was above 70%. As you can see by looking at the final results here, Metroid Prime finished with 63%. Losing 7% over the course of 24 hours is not a good thing, and it's rather odd for a Nintendo game. Usually these games have strong power hour votes and strong morning votes. Some have strong after-school votes.

Metroid as a series, for rather obvious reasons, doesn't have typical Nintendo trends. Metroid was a star of this contest, but if it was more Nintendo-like it could have pulled off two of the biggest upsets of all time. As-is, it would suffer two very painful and very close losses in the realm of what-could-have-been. It's always been like this for Metroid, too. Just awful day votes that really mess with it in close matches. This year, Morrowind showed us very early that things weren't going to change. Metroid would end up having a good contest, but it could have been so much better.