Agreed.

To offer us a glimpse of a gorgeous Twilight Princess styled Wii U Zelda and then give us a cartoon would be the Gamecube all over again, and we all know how Nintendo fared in that generation.

Am I the only one who saw the deficiencies in that trailer?

Which trailer?

Generally speaking, I think it is dangerous to base the cocneption of the game on the sales it will do. Of course, that's what companies do, but for Zelda, a bad game which is the result of choices to make the game more "casual gaming" playable can let fans on a negative point of view considering the franchise, so it will impact the sales for the next games, and the image of Nintendo.

Yes they should!!!!!!!!!!!

GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT NINTENDO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I always viewed Wind Waker HD as a "crowd pleaser" for the people who love cartoony zelda games so they aren´t disappointed when the next Zelda game will be a bit more realistic.

I absolutely love Skyward Sword´s artstyle with the mix of realistic proportions and watertpainting colour scheme.

With that said: The last 2 big homeconsole games were cartoony (WW HD and SS) so it is time to please the other end of the fanbase (the part tht likes the more realistic approach)

I will play it regardless !

BANG ON!

I think a darker toned Zelda game could also improve the sales of 3rd party efforts such as Assassins Creed, Batman, Mass Effect etc which are currently selling horrible on Wii U.

I don't think it has anything to do with 'sacrificing' the art style. I mean if you look at it that way you could also say that they sacrificed the art style of Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask when they made The Wind Waker. Personally I hope they stick with the art style of the wiiu Zelda demo, that looked awesome. I love every Zelda game, but I definitely prefer the more realistic ones. The Wind Waker looked pretty, but I think the style of Skyward Sword was ugly. I remember that I felt really disappointed when they announced Skyward Sword. In the end it was a great game, because the gameplay of every Zelda game is fantastic, but I hoped for a Twilight Princess kind of art style.

We started off pretty strong with everyone getting what I was asking, but people are starting to get confused.

I'm not saying anything negative in any way about any past Zelda game or the way it was represented.

I'm not saying that I don't like the art style used in Twilight Princess or that I felt THAT was sacrificing the artistic integrity of the series.

What I'm asking is whether you think the art style of the next Zelda game should be determined purely by the sales potential it holds. I'm not even asking you what kind of style the next game should have! ONLY whether or not the apparent sales potential of any given art style should be the primary factor Nintendo considers when determining the art direction for the next Zelda game.

Totally agree. I dream about that boss fight. Definitely ranks among the top 5 in the series.