superchunk on 08 June 2009
Simple. What happened this E3.
Action: Two Mario games were shown in video form and one was playable.
Response: People happy, thought it was really awesome and look forward to them.
Action: One hand drawn image of a Zelda for Wii was shown.
Response: Internet blew up with speculation and constant discussion far outweighing the Mario topics.
Mario is Nintendo's mascot and always has great main games. However, Zelda is a more core-centric game and pulls in gamers of all avenues. Zelda is just one of the best and most respected IPs in existance.
There is a reason Zelda:OOT is the highest ranked game on metacritic for over 10 years, regardless of how great Mario64, SMB3, or SMG were, Zelda is just a better overall franchise.
