Erik Aston on 21 May 2007
| Shane said: Here come the Brain Age clones. Next up: Wii Sports clones. Welcome to the future, where people don't like games like Zelda. |
Zelda still sold pretty well. TP combined sales handily beat both Majora and Wind Waker. And traditional games like Mario and Pokemon are selling better on DS than they have since 1996-98. So its not like the appeal of traditional games went down, its just that there are other game concepts out there either with higher appeal, or which hit underserved markets where they is a vacuum of good titles.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
