Zelda Skyward Sword has been adjusted up by VGchartz and now it is tracking above OOT3D.

It is standing at 3.1 million and the game could reach 4 millions, which is a minimum for such a great game.

SS sales are neither good nor bad, i will depend on its legs...
Personally I hated TP, and SS is not attractive too me, I prefer Skyrim.

Skyrim is a RPG, while Zelda is adventure game with fun combat system and tons of cerebral puzzle. No the same game at all.

Well, finally. the sales winner is as it should be

Just like pre-64 Mario?

The old Zelda I was marketed as an arcade-RPG hybrid, as was Zelda 2.

Also, this is just personal experience, but when playing Skyrim, I always think "Zelda should have evolved into something like this after OoT" maybe not the leveling, but remember, when OoT was new, it was it's freedom and scale that set it apart from all other games, THAT is what they should have expanded upon, not the content padding (IE puzzles and story).

I think the artstyle is a major problem. When I was waiting for the Zelda anouncement, I always imagined an Ocarina-like game with motion+ and Super Mario Galaxy-like visuals, because OoT used the SM64 engine (modified) it would make sense if they wanted to make a new Ocarina to use their best Wii engine. But when I saw the announcement on E3, I just went "Oh.... It'll be good I guess"

What about the first Zelda games, you know, the ones that established the brand and defined the series?
How many puzzles are in Zelda I.  (Puzzles, not secrets)

SS had all the advantages for it. Even though Wii is declining, its userbase is 95 million against 14, even if only a quarter of that is made up of active players, it would still be a lot bigger.

This is the same discussion that we always had when a good(ish) third party game on Wii flopped. It's BECAUSE OF THE GAME. And if you don't realize that now, you are being a hypocrite for saying so about third parties failing because they didn't put any effort in it (which is true, so STOP giving SS special treatment).

Aonuma is ruining the Zelda series, Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks already left a bad taste in players mouths, but aside from that, he never further developed the overworld from OoT, in fact, removed the overworld and replaced it with a series of puzzles. He allowed in some of the worst dialogue I have ever read in a game ("Hahaha I am such a wimp" - some wimp, Zelda SS) and flooded the game with it. He gave it the most boring beginning of a Zelda since Wind Waker. He keeps wanting to replace the epic art style defined in OoT with cartoonish visuals reminecent of his lame games, Marvelous and the like. He hates combat, he never finished the game that established the series because of the combat, he likes to remove link's sword.

Is this how you imagined Zelda's sequels after OoT? I am asking, because it sure as hell isn't how I imagined them.

There isn't 95 milion userbase for Wii Zelda. Userbase is whatever number of Wii owners who have motion plus capable controlers.