NoirSon said: Part of it is appealing to the core base while being marketable. Metroid never got a bigger push in America besides during the Prime 1/Fusion release window. I do think that a side scroller like many purist wish can't really sell so the series best hope is either a faithful 3D third person shooter or a FPS like the Prime series. |
Metroid is just too hard of a concept to get into. It's slow, it's tedious at times, it's solitary. It's a great game, but it's not very mass market friendly.
It's not much of a surprise that the "Metroid Prime" on GameCube or even with the red-hot Wii behind it, never really could fill the void that GoldenEye did on the N64 or do what Halo did for the XBox.