>>718022564
>6 gorillion gaidenlikes
Because they are way harder to make. Even NG4 has worse animations than those TN games. From software themselves tried and failed
>catch on the same way Dark Souls did
Souls caught on slowly. Look at Demons souls sales numbers (about 1.7 million copies), the series wasn't an overnight massive hit. It just did its own semi original thing on a decently big budget without compromising (much). All versions of NG 2004 and its re-releases combined sold in way higher numbers (around 3 millions)