Is Kirby starting to lose popularity?

I'm asking this on behalf of the sales of his most recent games: Kirby: Canvas Curse and Kirby: Squeak Squad, which sold very well in Japan, but horribly in western markets. Kirby: Canvas Curse didn't even make it to one million worldwide, despite praising reviews and Kirby: Squeak Squad only placed 10th for DS NPD sales in December, which was the game's release month.

Compare this to Kirby: Air Ride and his GBA games, which sold over 1 and a half million units worldwide. What is happening to my favorite inhailer?!

Was Kirby even all that popular to begin with? I mean, are there people who'll buy something solely because it has Kirby in it, without it being a quality game on top of that?

I just think we need to see something new thats why canvis curse did so good and was so well recived, Squeak squad didn't and i think just at this time people want some thing new, . if Nintendo did something new like CC im suere Kirby will be popular here in North America once more. zcds

Was Kirby even all that popular to begin with? I mean, are there people who'll buy something solely because it has Kirby in it, without it being a quality game on top of that?

Jezzasaurus