Have you heard of Metroid before?

[Skullwaker]

JRPGfan said:
Still look how many of those 17 million where in the US.

Metroid and Kirby are basically dead outsides the USA.

That's not true at all. Kirby is a very successful franchise in Japan. It's only in EU where it's dead. 

And Metroid is fairly big in EU, just not in Japan.