If it actually launches late 2015 I think it could push 3.5 million to 4 million. If it's later than that I can see it being less than 3.5 million.

Yeah some of you want the same aesthetics all over again (uncharted 1-2-3-4) But I think Nintendo fans are very glad with the changes on that on every Zelda, Wind Waker was amazing and now everyone says it, some of you want all Zelda to be the same as Ocarina, and then haters can say "Nintendo does always the same" ...but well, they say it anyway.

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Sales to not mean popularity. Sure, it is a significant factor, however, TP sold 7m on the Wii. Not including Gamecube. My point is that more people KNOW about Zelda than Smash. Plus, there is the fact this game is severly hyped. A lot of people waited on getting a Wii U till Smash, and a lot more are waiting on Zelda. Those people who are waiting on Zelda, plus those people who already have the console? Smash might sell more, but that doesn't mean Zelda won't sell more during launch. I believe it'll sell better than Smash at launch but not have as good legs as Smash.

The graphics don't fit Zelda. It's kind of like making Metroid all weird looking like that. It doesn't work. Even Nintendo themselves admitted the best art style is the more "realistic" version. Play Smash Bros Melee, go to Events, and one of them is fighting against Nintendo's "realistic" (they use that word too) characters, and Link is among them.

The fact is, when Zelda has the OOT/TP style it sells best. Twilight Princess was (and is) the most hyped Zelda ever, and one of the main reasons for that is the art style (if not THE reason).

Right now Nintendo needs all the sales and hype it can get, so it just boggles my mind they are going for the weird art style again.

I'd be surprised if it wasn't. It has everything going against it. I will say this, it will 100% be the worst selling first entry.

This is simply GORGEOUS, that´s why Nintendo want it.

Comparing Wii to WiiU sales of the major nintendo titles already out we can see that the Wii games are selling at well over twice the rate of the Wii U games. The only exception is Smash because the Wii version only launched in Japan initially. As we can see by the massive jump on the Wii version's graph, once it launches in Europe and America, Smash will also be selling at well over double the rate on the Wii as well.

Mario Kart
Smash
Donkey Kong
New Super Mario Bros
3D Mario

Assuming Zelda managed to hold on a little better and only drops to half the sales of twilight princess that means it will sell 3.5million. Assuming it sells half of total wii/gamecube twilight princess sales it will sell 4.3million. Assuming its drop is just straight up the same as the other major Wii U titles it could sell less than 3million.

Zelda Skyward sword only sold 3.8 million sales according to vgchartz. The wii sold OVER 100 Million units while the wii U is at less than 9 million.... Zelda U will sell no more than 2 million life time you morons.