Khuutra said:
Bobbuffalo said:
Khuutra said:
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.
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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.
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In point of fact, userbase has never-
You know what? Never mind.
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I'll state that userbase increases potential sales. It just doesn't increase actual sales. That's why sequels on same systems tend to get diminishing returns, with some notable exceptions (GTA on PS2, Modern Warfare), despite userbases being larger (like the FF games).
How this relates to LttP vs PH is that the latter had either as much appeal as the former, or less appeal, but not more appeal.
