Why are Metroid franchise sales so low? How can the franchise grow?

[richardhutnik]

liquidninja said:

Wow, I coulda swore I hear someone tell me that Metroid wasn't as big in Japan as it was in America. Apparently they didn't take into consideration that Super Metroid sold more there the here.

I Also didn't know that Metroid Prime was the highest selling Metroid. And I though Super Metroid did better than regular Metroid. (I guess because I'd never even knew about NES Metroid until a couple years ago.)

Well on topic, I guess they could add a peripheral to the next one. Like the arm cannon thingy in the game.

My understanding is that Kid Icarus actually was/is a bigger series popularity-wise than Metroid, in Japan.  A characteristic of Japanese games is linearity, and Kid Icarus is more linear than Metroid.