The problem of Zelda in Japan

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Hephaestos said:

how are the sales of Prime vs M vs old school metroid?

that could be a similar study.

not too good. I did a quick search as seen below... and none of the primes got above .12 million. Though it did get turned into a first person shooter with other elements while zelda I hope would not :P... so I don't know if a direct comparison is completely valid. But... if the goal is to get zelda's Japan sales up... I highly doubt this is the solution.

Pos	Game	Americas	Japan	EMEAA	Worldwide
1	Metroid (NES) メトロイド Nintendo	1.35	1.04	0.34	2.73
2	Super Metroid (SNES) スーパーメトロイド Nintendo	0.58	0.71	0.13	1.42
3	Metroid 2 (GB) メトロイド 2 Nintendo	0.86	0.56	0.34	1.76
4	Metroid Fusion (GBA) メトロイドフュージョン Nintendo	1.08	0.18	0.29	1.55
5	Metroid Prime (GC) メトロイドプライム Nintendo	1.98	0.12	0.73	2.83
6	Metroid Prime Hunters (DS) メトロイドプライムãƒÂãƒ³ã‚¿ãƒ¼ã‚º Nintendo	0.58	0.11	0.00	0.69
7	Metroid Prime 2: Dark Echoes (GC) メトロイドプライム2ダークエコーズ Nintendo	0.84	0.07	0.38	1.29
8	Famicom Mini: Metroid (GBA)   Nintendo	0.00	0.07	0.00	0.07
9	Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Wii) メトロイドプライム3 コラプション Nintendo	0.89	0.07	0.60	1.56