Metroid is niche and that's what it comes down to, niche means that something only appeals to a small select focused group within the market, Metroid is its own genre and concept that requires a person to have a certain taste for it to appeal to them much like a game like Monster Hunter.
People often cite Metroid as one of those big first party core series but in reality Metroid will never push hardware sales because it only sells to a certain subset of gamers. Prime for example only sold as well as it did because many people didn't know what type of game it was and gaming at the time was going through the whole Sci-fi shooter phase with Halo and all so quite a number of people bought it expecting something like the latter. This is why Echoes had such a large drop in sales in comparison.
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