Does artstyle really affect Zelda sales?

[VanceIX]

spemanig said:

VanceIX said:

Twilight Princess helped sell the Wii in the first place. It was the first game to appeal to the hardcore audiences.

The casuals who bought the Wii in droves generally did not buy TP.

OT: Yes. TP and OoT all sold much, much more than WW or SS. MM flopped because it came out after the Gamecube was pretty much already announced, and Nintendo didn't have the time or resources to market it the way they did OoT.

Any game in the Zelda franchise would have sold that well in TP's position. It didn't sell because TP was "realistic." It sold because it was Zelda with motion controls at the launch of the Wii.

No.

It sold well on Gamecube too, which didn't have motion controls.

And why didn't SS sell well then? It came out when 90 million people already owned a Wii, had better motion controls than anything before, and still managed to flop. 

People like realistic graphics. TP was praised as the second coming of OoT before it was even released due to the adult Link and graphics. The GC version alone had unprecedented sales, especially seeing as that Nintendo pretty much cut support for the system right after. Not as much as the Wii, but a lot for a dead system.