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oniyide on 18 January 2012
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OneTwoThree said:
oniyide said:
OneTwoThree said:
One big mistake on Nintendo's part was making the M+ bundle a "Limited Edition". The bundled version should have been widely available, because having to buy an otherwise useless accessory along with the game surely scares buyers away. It just makes no sense to me, they should have used the bonus CD as incentive to drive preorders of the first shipping, not the M+ controller, since it is essential.
Other than that - what people already said, OoT3D is a classic, on a hot new system, bundled with a collectible Zelda edition of the system.
But still I am really sad about SS's low sales, people just don't know what they're missing.

But it wasnt like the motion plus wasnt already heavily bundled with the systems themselves. Ninty must have figured that alot of people already had one and lets be real here, all the fans knew it would be required from day one. Most people who wanted this would have already had motion+, if not all.

Ok, but still many didn't have a M+ (me, for example). Sure, we, the fans, knew it was required. But Nintendo is obviously trying hard to expand the Zelda audience beyond the current number of 3 to max 7 millions a Zelda game typically sells. NSMBWii and MKWii sell 20-30millions, yet Skyward Sword - the most ambitious and expensive game Nintendo ever made, according to them - will fail to achieve blockbuster sales by far. Why is that? Well, Zelda is a more complicated kind of game, it demands more dedication from the gamer. It's not 'pick up and play' as the aforementioned Mario titles. So, to win over the sceptical mainstream audience who have a short attention span, Zelda needed to be an impulse buy. If it requires an accessory, the impulse buy window has already closed:

What, an accessory, oh no what kind of accessory? Motion+? What does it do? Motion gaming... well I thought the Wii already does that? Accelero..gyro.. what? Phew ok so, how much? Another 25 bucks?!? Grumble grumble... Does it at least support any other games? Not really, another Wii Sports and a flawed sword fighting game... I see... Oh well, alright, I'll take it, where do you have them? What you're out of stock?!? Ah geez forget about it!!!


I see where you are coming from I just dont agree with it, Can I see a quote or even evidence that Ninty is trying to make Zelda do Mario numbers?? Because i really doubt thats what they were going for. I think they were just trying to make the best Zelda game they could and they needed a motion controller that didnt suck. But, if they really are trying to go the Mario sales route, they they are really stupid. Zelda would never reach those sales for the reasons you already mentioned. For it to do that, they woud have to dumb it WAAAAAY down so any fool can just pick it up. Even without the motion plus it still would not be and impulse buy, some games will never do Mario Kart numbers and thats ok. IMHO they already dumbed down that series with MKWii, glad they are leaving my Zelda alone