How about using Lindsy Lohan as the model for Zelda? Wouldn t that be the opposite of type cast?

Maybe they should let sega make a mech warrior game. Not only does mech fans have nothing on other consoles, no other gamepad has the possibility of so many quick action commands.

Mech fans are probably too small a group but it would be a fun experiment

Wow! Incredible, I think I disagree with every single sentence that you've written here. You seem to not have a clue about what you're saying.

@NSMB Wii. People went to buy Wii for NSMB Wii? Prove it. I've just analysed the sales charts for Wii and can't see any real difference from the year before or after, in fact the Wii sold less YoY the week the game was released than the year before!! People didn't buy a Wii for this game. People bought this game, cause they already had a Wii. This game is the most obvious case of a game that you buy when you have a console, but don't buy a console for and the crazy attachment rate of NSMBU shows it. All your arguments here are just absurd. People aren't buying Wii U, cause they can play NSMB on Wii? If that was true, there would have never been a single sequel! And people somehow are buying millions of CoD every year, even though it's almost the same game.

Neither NSMBU, nor NSMBWii is a system seller. They are both impulse purchases that you get when you own a console.

@Zelda. I don't even know with what to start. Who cares how it's gonna be remembered after 5 years? It's now that matters, cause you're selling the game NOW, not in 5 years. WW sold badly when it was released and it still sells like crap now, so who cares if you think of it more fondly than of TP, which sold almost twice as much? But most importantly - remembered by whom? For me TP is much better than WW. Who helds WW in a higher regard than TP? A bunch of Nintendo fanboys, whose number is pitifully low, thus making them totally irrelevant? Look at all the "I want a mature Zelda" threads and see how many people want a TP-like game. You wanna know why they are more important than N fanboys who want a cartoony Zelda? Cause they won't buy a Wii U for a cartoony Zelda, but they will buy Wii U and a mature Zelda, while fanboys will buy both regardless, they already have a crazy number of cartoony N games on the Wii U. And just look at the cartoony defenders, who, as you say, "place TP below WW, MM, OoT, and often Skyward Sword" - they sure are turning the WW HD into a runaway success (just like they did with the original WW)! Nintendo sure should cater to them instead of the millions of people who buy mature Zeldas, thus making them the best selling games in history of the franchise. After all the remake of WW HD sold only 7 times less than the remake of OoT and it gave its struggling console a much smaller boost (mind you - 3DS was selling like crap when OoT was released). So yeah, take the word of a handful of forum screamers over the wallets of millions of people, who indicate a totally opposite purchasing pattern - that's always a good and wise choice.

Remaking MM with WW graphics is just batshit crazy! It's the first time I hear about this absurd idea, where did you even take it from? Nintendo would have to be braindead to make that happen. I haven't heard about a more ridiculous idea in a very, very long time. That would make this remake sell even worse than WW HD! I can't even express just how idiotic this idea is.

I don't care about your excuses about why TP sold so good. The facts are plain and simple - mature Zeldas sell better and they move hardware. Cartoony Zeldas sell worse and don't move hardware - it's as simple as that. And by taking the opinion of a handful of forum fanboys, who are oblivious of the reality, and considering them as "people" (thus the voice of all people interested in Zelda games), implying that they are any kind of a real force on the market is just laughable. Their voice is the least important - sales prove it.

Mature Zelda appeals to people who don't own a Wii U. A cartoony one appeals mainly to people, who already own it or will get it next year regardless. That is why Nintendo can't listen to these fanboys. What do you think the general reaction is gonna be if N shows the next Zelda with cartoony graphics? Everyone is gonna laugh at it for not being like the tech demo and ignore it as yet another game for kids. On the other hand, nobody would do that if it had mature graphics like the tech demo shows, everyone would take it seriously. And that's the huge difference. Wii U needs games that are respected, not laughed at.

Well that's exactly what Nintendo did and where their current problems come from. They ignored the gamers, invested in casuals. Now the casuals are gone and when Nintendo looks at gamers, gamers go like "LOL! You must be kidding me! I'm not touching your stuff anymore, have fun with your casuals, I won't let you screw me over again".

Nah I got it, just messing around. :P Better than participating in the actual conversations people are having in this thread... I don't want no part of that.

From Wikipedia

According to the last reported numbers provided by Nintendo, Wind Waker sold only 3.07 million copies worldwide, far below the 7.6 million set by Ocarina of Time.[59] Aonuma would later comment in 2007 that he was "convinced the reason the Wind Waker did not perform well was because of its toon-shaded graphics style. It was something that you either loved or hated, and there was nothing that we could have done about it."[60] As a result of Wind Waker's poor sales, Aonuma decided that "the only thing we could do was to give the healthy North American market the Zelda that they wanted," which led to the creation of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.[61]

I always thought Wind Waker sold like 4.5 million copies for some reason. Wow. It was a border line bomb, even on 22 million GameCubes, to only sell 3 million ... yikes.

Did you actually just play into that?

OT: It seems like Eiji's traumatic experience with his well received and well sold Zelda games makes him not want to go down that dark path again. Accept the man for who his, an evolving man. He has no time for making something everyone thinks they want!

I am really enjoying A Link Between Worlds and I really enjoyed Skyward Sword. So I look forward to what Mr. Aonuma has in store for the next Zelda. As usual I believe gameplay is the most important aspect of a Zelda game, but regarding art style I would rather they do a more realistic art style this time around (Twilight Princess like); namely for three reasons. Firstly, we have cel-shaded Zelda on the system and it looks great. Secondly, having a more realistic art style will allow them to show more of the graphical capabilities of the Wii U which I believe is important to average Western gamers (I do not mean to generalize, but this is based on my own observations) . Lastly, and most importantly for me, I never felt the Wii and Gamecube hardware did the Twilight Princess art-style justice; the textures looked extremely blurry and the lighting effects were very basic. I think part of the reason why Twilight Princess looked the way it did was because of the GC and Wii hardware limitations but also because the game was built on a modified Wind Waker engine which designed of cel-shaded graphics; thus, I would not mind seeing the new Zelda game being more realistic (along the lines of Twilight Princess but maybe with more color) and built around the Wii U hardware. I also would not mind the Wii Remote Plus sword, bow, and hookshots to return at least as an option for us who like to play like that (but I doubt they will).

I get the feeling there's a big structural change coming for the Zelda series in the next game. Multiplayer perhaps.

Now that would be a unique expereince from Aonuma

In all honesty a Zelda game with the freedom of zelda 1, item use and dungeon design and overeorld design of ALTTP, with Twlight Princess Production values (and muisc!) and the motion control of Skyward sword it will be the best zelda game never ever made :D