No way. Brawl was an enormous commercial smash (pun unintended) that far outstripped Melee's own success. It's one of the highest selling games on the Wii, which means a lot when you consider both how high Wii and current generation software sales have gotten.
While Brawl did outsell Melee, there's two things to keep in mind: Melee's been around longer, and its multiplayer scene was quite a bit larger. Brawl's playrate could be higher, but at any rate, I think it's very close between the two.
It also received better reviews and a highly similar fan reception.
Brawl did receive marginally better reviews. Its Metascore is 93, while Melee's is 92. However, it definitely seems that Melee left a stronger post-release impact. It did a lot better in the 2001 Game of the Year period than Brawl did in '08, even though most would argue 2001 had a stronger slate of games. In fact, Brawl kind of embarrassed itself at the end of '08, as most sites really didn't give it much recognition at all. Remember when IGN gave the Wii GotY Award to ****ing BOOM BLOX instead?
As for fan reception, while Brawl received a very similar reception among Nintendo fans, its reception in the gaming world as a whole was different than Melee's. It just... didn't really rope in non-Nintendo gamers quite as well. Melee managed to really stick with people who typically wouldn't pick up a Nintendo controller, but Brawl's reception in the general gaming community was relatively apathetic in the long run.
Now if you wanted to gauge which was considered to be better on "which has the least haters" then Melee might win.
There's no way Brawl has less haters.
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