Why does Metroid Mainline Games sale so sell low? And could it sale higher now?

[NoirSon]

t3mporary_126 said:

Soundwave said:

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. 

I agree with all of this. But couldn't this be said about Dark Souls too? What is separating Metroid's potential to sale as well as the Dark Souls series? 

Dark Souls is more about brutal action and challenge, with Gothic style. Metriod is more about exploration and isolation in a alien setting. The only thing comes close is No Man's Sky and that has massive hype behind it and pseudo galaxy explorations that no Metriod game could do while maintaining Metroid's map based interconnected charm level design.

To put it clearly a Metroid game that was 3rd person action game with customization and semi multiplayer like Dark Souls and other such games it probably would be the best selling in the series on a better selling console.