Should Zelda sacrifice its artistic integrity for the sake of greater sales?

[Mr Khan]

the_dengle said:

wfz said:
The game came out today in EU and NA and people are already bashing the game's sales? That's a tad premature.

Unfortunately, yes. It is now acceptable to declare a game a flop based on its first-week physical sales in a single region.

Regardless of Wind Waker HD's sales, though, I saw this same argument a lot when Skyward Sword was released. It sold relatively weakly compared to Twilight Princess.

Required peripheral + Late in console's life. The only sales target Skyward Sword had to look out for was Majora's Mask.