I believe I read somewhere that FPS games aren't really popular in Japan. With that in mind, it wouldn't surprise me that the Prime series didn't do as well as the other ones in Japan. Even though I don't care for FPS games, I loved Prime. I don't think one can correctly say that the Prime games are FPS games. They just use the first person perspective camera angle.
I agree.
Some fans of FPS games were actually quite mad at the lock on system in Prime (saying that aiming is most of the fun in that kind of game).
Then I'd have to say these people completely missed the point of Metroid.
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