Would Metroid 3DS sell?

[Mr Khan]

Khuutra said:

dunno001 said:

Probably not. As long as they keep it in the style of Prime and Hunters, it's not going to excel for sales. However, if they bring back the old style, ala the original or Super Metroid, it may do better.

Not an unreasonable conclusion, except that all of the Prime games sold in the range of Super Metroid - Echoes was a hundred thousand or so lower, but Corruption was a little higher.

The original Prime outsold the original Metroid to be the best-selling game in the series.

It's not genre and mechanics that's the problem, here.

Prime's success is attributed to aggressive bundling in part, but i think it also scores from being the "normal" Metroid released after 8 years of nothing, given that Fusion was stranger-looking of the two. This i think would account for Fusion's sales being perhaps lower than they should have been, since it very well might have been crowded out.

It seems the franchise has been spread too thin, i think. If it were cut back to a once-per-generation affair with a focus on the core appeal of the franchise, perhaps they could optimize the franchise as it is. Their only alternative for growth is continued dangerous meddling a la Other M, which could do irreperable damage to the franchise before they find the right "new" formula for it