Why does Tropical Freeze sell so bad?

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super_etecoon said:

Tlozjb said:
It sells bad, because the console already has enough platformers, and what people wanted was a new Metroid, not another Donkey Kong, if the game would had released later on, maybe after a new Metroid and the library of the console diversified, things would had gone better, but it was released at a bad moment, when the majority of the library of the games on the console were platformers, and when the most people wanted was a new Metroid.

This.

Also...doesn't everyone hate the ice levels in most games...all that slippery physics wreaks havok on our skills.  This game has that freeze part in the title even.  I'm sure there's not as much snow as it sounds like...but from a marketing standpoint it just seems like it's made up of the levels we never want to play anyway.

But seriously, Retro, stop wasting your time.  You honestly haven't done anything revolutionary to the 2D industry, and I would expect nothing short of that from the company that brought us Metroid Prime.  I'd say as a company you're underdelivering on the level of praise that we bestow upon you.

I don't know about ice levels, but water levels are pretty damn evil in my book!