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Bobbuffalo on 23 October 2010
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Khuutra said:
Bobbuffalo said:

WW accesible? Bullshit! OoT was more linear and accesible than WW annoying and tedious sailing. Also the sales from WW weren't as good as eveb Majora's mask which was more niche.

Since WW, zelda sales have been shrinking and now new audience has arrived. That "new" audience are actually the kids that cannopt play the original zelda because there are no maps or story or cinemas. We the old audiences that enjoyed the first one, the SNES one and even the GB one are waiting for a true zelda and so far it hasn't arrived.

The idea that Zelda belongs to the "hardcores" is stupid. The first zelda was aimed at both kids and adults. Zelda II was more difficuly which prompted Nintendo to make AlttP more easy and linear.

Funny how these pathetic excuse for journalists like ti twist facts and stories.

And no hype because there hasn't been more reasons to be hyped. But Nintendo has done GREATLY without it...so who cares?

That's not true, WW outsold MM considerably and sold about hte same amount as Link to the Past.

This is also not true. Twilight Princess is the second best-selling game in the series (could pass up Ocarina within a year!), Phantom Hourglass outsold Wind Waker and Link to the Past, and Spirit Tracks... eh, it's still the third or fourth best-selling handheld Zelda.

This entire post is predicated on fallacious assumptions.

Neither WW, TP, PH nor ST had attracted new gamers and incresaed the userbase. The last Zelda game to really do that was OoT but since then the Zelda audience had shrinked without attracting new gamers nor recovering the lapsed ones.

And when counting sales you must take in account the userbase and the population. OF COURSE that PH will sell more than the SNES simply because the DS has a much larger userbase. But you don't see the new gamers or the lapsed ones, flockintg to stores to have it. On the contrary, many didn't even care to finish them (sending them to the used games bins) nor bought ST.

Face reality. Zelda games need to change to keep fresh and the last 4 games haven't accomplished that.