Why Zelda is NOT Nintendo's big holiday title

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BengaBenga said:

DarkNight_DS said:

BengaBenga said:
Huh, they announced Zelda: Spirit Tracks for DS. I highly doubt Nintendo will release two Zelda games in the same quarter.

Galaxy 2 is more likely, but also not very. Pikmin 3 + StarFox/F-Zero/Kid Icarus is more likely to me.

F-Zero least likely because they already have a race game this year with Excite. Furthermore Wii Sports Resort and Wii Fit Plus (if real) will be the system sellers.

 

We will not see a direct sequel to Galaxy anytime soon.  Galaxy is a great game and sold well overall but it did nothing for their home market.

 

Huh, what do you mean? Galaxy sold what. 8 million copies? That's shitloads of money right there. That's the only thing taht matters for Nintendo.

Or do you mean Japan with home market? It's close to a million, that's amazing for a console game there these days.

It is a fantastic number for a modern day Mario until you look at New Super Mario Bros. which has sales more than double Galaxy.

However I agree with Benga on this one. Miyamoto has talked about work is being done on a sequel to Galaxy a number of times and this one quote pretty much confirms it:

"And while, personally, I feel like Super Mario Galaxy was able to do some things that were very new and were very unique, at the same time, from another perspective, certain elements of it do feel somewhat conservative in terms of how far we branched out with design. And so this is something I've been talking to [the Mario team] about," Miyamoto said.