The original Metroid Prime was one of the highest-selling entries in the franchise regardless of platform. This argument also doesn't hold too well given that it never grew beyond that initial success, even on the Wii with its giant install base and Prime 3 being a well-promoted, well-marketed entry.
One key problem for Metroid is that not all Metroid fans are FPS fans. There's a natural Venn diagram between traditional Metroid fans and Prime fans, with only some crossover in the middle. You'll never get the entire fanbase to play both.
You are not understanding what i said to someone else. A lot of core.hardcore games didn't do well on Wii because it was marketed to masses as something else. So games like Mad world, prime 3, other m, didn't do super well. But others like sports, fit, mario kart were huge because of the broad spectrum.
Switch isn't getting grandma's and grandpa's buying it it's getting people like us, family's, people who already own consoles. Which is why it's selling as well as wii but all the games on it are core games. Not fit, wii sports type of games. like zelda, kart, splatoon, pokemon, smash, mario party even smaller obscure games like toad tracker and even kirby are selling better than they ever did on wii, gamecube.
Metroid no punn intended is primed to do well or at least better than original did on cube because right now the market is ravenous for anything Nintendo.
