Gamerace on 06 January 2010
Metroid is debatable. Only the original sold really well, almost 3m. The sequels managed to sell over a million but that's not much of a success. Not for Nintendo these days. Even 3m would seem like small potatoes on Wii.
Animal Crossing and Mario Party are both much bigger. I suspect Kirby as well but Kirby hasn't seen a console platformer since N64. A DKCountry game would likely also be bigger but again, not since N64 has the world seen one.
But Metroid is still bigger than Star Fox, FZero, Fire Emblem and recent Pokemon Colloseum games which is why it's probably more recgonized.
